"The mother of one football player later asked me, 'If we were such terrible, football-obsessed people, why would we have clapped?'"

It's still outs him as a horrible shitty excuse for a human being. But he plays football so we shouldn't be so MEAN to him. He's a sensitive boy!

How is that counselor allowed to have a job. Oh wait, it's a school that only values their stupid fucking sports teams. Never mind.

Other possible explanations:

I do not wear makeup. I OWN makeup that I have, at times, intended to wear, but I never seem to get around to it. Also my skin is super-sensitive and oily, and I never seem to find a combo of products that look good and don't make me break out, so I have said fuckit to the whole kit and caboodle.I think I'm pretty…

At which point it may almost be possible to enjoy a Cassandra Clare book.

You husband is in no way wrong.

People are generally idiots who like derivative insipid crap.

PREACH.