It lessens the impact when she does something truly age-inappropriate, like handling Penis Gummies.

even this werewolf?

Every time y'all vote Pit, a pit bull angel gets its wings.

I'm a 35 year old woman from the same demographic and there's no way my friends or I can afford coke or a Little Italy apartment NOW...let alone 10 years ago. But we're all getting laid on the regular now, and we were back then, too.

This isn't the NYT, though. It's the New York Observer, which is an insider-y rag that the vast majority of New Yorkers don't even read. It's not a national paper by a long shot.

If anyone outside Manhattan reads the New York Observer, I'd be stunned. It's the most ridiculously white, insular, Manhattanite elitist rag on offer, and that's saying something in this town.

Delete the mentions of Twitter and ipods, and this could have been written by Bret Easton Ellis in the 80s or Candace Bushnell in the 90s. Someone at the Observer is recycling their trend pieces.

Says poli sci professor Phil Gussin, "What Wallace did was hurtful and inexcusable, but the response has been far more egregious. She made a big mistake, and she knows it, but … they responded with greater levels of intolerance."

The whole "I cannot explain what possessed me..." is classic evasive non-apology bullshit.

LOL. When I was in Madrid not long after this happened, I bought a couple bar towels with ¿Por qué no te callas? printed on them. There was even a ringtone you could download!

Oh yeah, it was a total dick move by Juan Carlos. And imperialist and privileged and with a chunk of "get off my lawn!" grumpy-old man thrown in.

WHER R LOLCATZ?

I agree with what you're saying but I think the problem comes when, as with the Diors, you glorify the people who were heroic, but refuse to acknowledge the fact that not everyone in your family was so heroic, and that many of them were actively collaborators and anti-Semites. That's just cowardly revisionism, and…

¿Por qué no te callas?

Reread my comment before you get all insulted. I didn't say that the Resistance was a hoax. I said that after the war, people love to claim their family was in the Resistance even when they weren't. No one will admit that their relatives were collaborators.

True. I am descended from slaveowners and I've definitely seen that convenient revisionism in my own family. But we're nearly 150 years removed from slavery, whereas there are plenty of people living in France today who were alive during WWII, along with their children, so the revisionism is a lot more willfully…

Of course—I can understand why their pride might have been running a little low...what with those years of Nazi collaboration and allowing their fellow citizens to be shipped to concentration camps. I'm glad they had some pretty frocks to help them get past that.

Yes, the real problem in France after WWII was the lack of sparkle! Sadly, the Marshall Plan did not not address that crucial issue.