Dare To Ask Talk And News About Our Differences By PHILLIP MILANO Question If you’re a male client, where does your female hairstylist expect you to look when she’s leaning in front of you, exposing ample cleavage? Lee, 37, male, Fairfax, Va. Replies Good boys always look forward and behave when they get their hair cut. If there happens to be a pair of enormous breasts there, it’s not …
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DARE TO ASK: Ignorance often leads to hostility
By PHILLIP MILANO Question Why is there such hostility toward Jewish people? Reez, 32, Asian male, Toronto Replies Throughout history, Jews were outsiders. Political power derived its legitimacy from Christianity, so Jews were politically suspect. Economically, they were useful but despised: not being allowed to own land in many places, they were forced into mercantile trades; having connections with other …
Read More »DARE TO ASK: For lesbians, is it only all about sex?
By PHILLIP MILANO Question My wife is in her 40s and until recently was never approached by lesbians in her workplace. They know she is married with a family, but now they are relentless in pursuing her sexually (she thinks it is rather exciting to be noticed). Not only are extramarital affairs wrong, but breaking up a family for your …
Read More »DARE TO ASK: Can whites be ‘smelly’ like a deli?
By PHILLIP MILANO Question Where did the statement “white people smell like bologna” originate? S. May, 38, white female, Toronto Replies It most likely has to do with diet. For instance, Italians (of which I’m one) have a tendency to smell like garlic because there is a lot of garlic in our food. Dave L., 31, New York White people …
Read More »DARE TO ASK: Food allergy is nothing to sneeze about
By PHILLIP MILANO Question My brother doesn’t believe my 3-year-old has a peanut allergy. At a recent dinner at his home, every dish but one had nuts in it. He has also made jokes that if my daughter’s not good, he’ll hold her down and feed her peanut butter. What is his problem? C. Fox, 39, Santa Clara, Calif. Replies …
Read More »DARE TO ASK: Are women in the South subservient?
By PHILLIP MILANO, Question I have not lived in the Deep South long and wonder if it is a Southern thing for a wife to wait hand and foot on her husband. Many husbands act like they cannot do a thing for themselves. Margaret, 44, Albany, Ga. Replies My mother’s side hails from South Carolina, and they consider themselves the …
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