I would argue that even if Rebel Wilson is NOT happy and healthy as she is, we should leave her alone. It's not really my business to monitor Rebel Wilson's health.

Not only are most people reasonable, but honestly, most people aren't going to remember within 5 years whether you gave them a gift or not, unless it's a super-standout gift. (which I guess makes me sound ungrateful, also—I guess the thing I mean here is that, in my case, I got a lot of gifts from our registry. And…

Exactly my thought. It's verrrrrry common for bunnies to start smelling up the place.

I feel like maybe I should stop taking part in the pile-on because I wonder if I'm getting a little mean-spirited here, but I'm also appalled by her suggestion that when you attend "ANY party, you...offer to chip in to pay for the celebration." Which...what? That's the sort of thing that people used to find…

Oh my word, please tell us you're not throwing your own birthday dinners at which you "invite" people to show up and pay for you?

Exactly...and honestly, I'd never heard of this among Italian-Americans UNTIL I movd to the Northeast, so I think what we're talking about here is a tradition that is practiced among a subset of Italian-Americans based in the Northeast, but not all Italian-Americans in the Northeast. So, a cultural subset of a…

I bet making an entire dress out of lentils would probably be pretty expensive, really.

But that's just inaccurate. Etiquette guides do NOT advise that, because etiquette is a set of principles that govern social interaction. What you're talking about is a commercial exchange.

Is it the skinny thing? At a certain age, for men especially, being super string-beany starts to look creepy. (though there is, of course, what's known as the David Tennant Exception.)

He's not saying that everyone who opts out of vaccinating is rich, he's citing the stat in the article itself that the opt-out clusters correlate to factors associated with high socioeconomic status. It's important to note these correlations because then we can start getting to the bottom of why that's happening, and…

The fact that Terry Richardson is 48 is not surprising, because he looks 48. But he also looked 48 ten years ago, when, I can only assume, he was 38. It's strange for me to even imagine Terry Richardson as a man in his 30s, because it feels like he was born a 40+ creeper.

Beyoncé hiring her own photographers and videographers is not in itself strange. But allowing other photographers normal access to her shows wouldn't preclude them doing that. Her publicist's mistake was in treating Buzzfeed like an outlet with which they'd had some kind of pre-arranged interview or press opportunity,…

I agree with you so completely, and you articulate this beautifully (and with the same economy that makes M.M. herself so deft.)

No, it wasn't a reasonable request. It's reasonable for her to request photo approval over images being released by organizations for whom she is directly working—so, say, any "official event photographers" employed by CBS or the NFL. But not from journalists simply covering the Super Bowl as a public event/news story.

I totally agree with you about the way this is characterized, which is AWFUL. I'm not sure if this is addressed in the other comments (I know you've gotten many), but I think it's also worth noting that the fact that Brown talks about the incident in this way is not uncommon of abuse victims, and doesn't mean he was…

This is a clever and elegant solution—I think OrangeLantern's point is that she didn't want the aunt to go un-thanked if she HAD given a gift, which I totally understand and remember being the case with one or two people when I got married. But since the aunt actually did provide lots of help, there's a reason to send…

Yes, I can think of nothing more fun than a public ritual where lots of adults pin cash all over the body of a young woman. No problematic implications there whatsoever.

The persistence of this totally inaccurate idea is so confusing to me. My girl Miss Manners happens to (again) address this very issue in a recent column (in relation to birthday parties, in this case): "A guest is someone to whom refreshment and entertainment are freely given. It is not someone to whom these are sold…

God, I love her. And can we talk about how funny she is? She does not get enough credit for being funny.

It's so bad. It's like the entire concept of hospitality has vanished.