Secondly, we seem to have reached the exhausting point where Franzen and his critics (of which I am one) are both existing in the smug state in which each group assumes that they’re smarter than the other. Franzen insists that he’s playing a joke on us (his entire Guardian article can be summed up with “have fun with…

Great piece. I can’t believe the dean was sympathetic to the accused rapist at St.Paul’s simply because he fit the profile of the dean’s other successful male students. It raised several questions/issues for me though, some related to the piece itself, others of a more general nature:

Totally pretty damned cunty. But fucking hilarious ;)

I like to think BLM is better than Occupy, which was an asshole-ridden shitshow from the beginning and destined to fail.

This is why I hate the Left sometimes and why, even as a Liberal, I no longer join organisations or movements or parties. I love how they declined to speak with Sanders and then when a better organised and more professional activist scheduled a meeting with the Sanders camp, they started bitching about it. I bet you…

Except those leaders and that board declined to meet with Sanders and then bitched about him meeting with someone else.

Ok, maybe 20 years was an exaggeration. But at some point he started taking on lazy roles in these ridiculous, lazy comedies that are, quite frankly, beneath him. And I love comedy. Just not the ‘Meet the parents’ slapstick stupidity variety. Analyze This was pretty damn overrated though.

Sorry, that’s not what I meant. I meant that it’s brutal for a rape victim to go through a trial even if the defense is resepctful in their cross-examination.

Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE De Niro quen he tries. But he’s tried maybe twice in 20 years. Silver Linings Playbook is the last role of his I remember where he wasn’t phoning it in. The Meet the Parents franchise and the stupid romcoms are a fucking embarrassment though.

Tasteless, but fucking hilarious.

Yes! And congrats on also being hilarious, this is the best thing I’ve read on Jezebel in ages.

It has to be though. It’s the only way to guarantee due process and a fair trial.

In that case, if she brings it up again maybe say something casually like, “oh, I like the idea of a fascinator so when I decide what I’m wearing I’ll let you know and we can go from there”, or something like that, noncomittal but firm enough that she gets the message that at the end of the day, it’s your wedding and…

Not a bad friend but maybe you’re making too big of a deal out her comments? You’re having a small, intimate civil wedding. Does this mean you’re letting your maid of honor and any bridesmaids dress the way they want? Are you completely opposed to the idea of your best friend wearing her grandmother’s fur and a…

No, weddings aren’t the most hated thing of this generation. That’s impossible because we’re also living in a time where people have never spent as much on their weddings as they do now. You just feel that way because you’re on the pro-wedding side of the argument. People who choose not to go to the traditional route…

Ha. That’s actually funny. Unlike the defensive and unfunny “zingers” that the author suggests in the OP.

Thank you. And the only reason the first Father of the Bride was even watchable is because Diane Keaton and Steve Martin. Also, I really hate Auto-Pilot Comedy DeNiro. He hasn’t even tried in about 20 years.

“full-length, acrylic French-tip fingernail”

That’s not a name. Or at least it shouldn't be.

But I’m sure he’ll see plenty of footlongs... in jail.