I get it now: just as Angelina Jolie will be forever seen as the "homewrecker" who "stole Brad" (played up by women in the media like Aniston friend Chelsea Handler and Wendy Williams - who, oddly, reinforce the Aniston victim thing). I guess when the star power dynamic is different (Charlize Theron and Stuart…

I think the bigger difference here is that Clooney has gone on record as never wanting to get married again, while Aniston hasn't. Think about it: Cameron Diaz, who is Aniston's contemporary, doesn't get the same "sad and alone" tag that Aniston does - because she doesn't seem to be necessarily angling for a ring.…

What iamCUMBERlocked said, plus the fact that you have no idea what Kroes gives to charity at present: does it make more sense for her to work in an Oxfam shop, or to make enough money so that she can donate a significant amount to Oxfam?

A bit harsh.

What if this dude was known to be a racist mark - but not against your race? Would you be cool staying his friend and hanging with him?

If it did rise to the level of sexual harassment, she expected shared disgust at his behavior - and an unwillingness to act as though nothing happened. I expect a certain level of decency in my friends: forget the loyalty issue - I wouldn't want to have someone sleazy as a friend, as that reflects badly on me...

That's what I think the advice should have been: is having another child without your husband agreeing worth losing him and raising two children as a single mother? Because that is what's likely to happen...

Love that the parents in this travesty are named Jack & Diane. Collins-Rector obviously must like him some John Cougar Mellencamp...

As I commented elsewhere, Les Liaisons Dangereuses v. Valmont, the two Capote films, a whole spate of farm films in the Eighties...(yes, I am an old...)

Les Liaisons Dangereuses v. Valmont, the two Capote films, a whole spate of farm films in the Eighties...(yes, I am an old...)

Don't feel guilty: I benefit from certain privileges as a male, and I just try to be as decent to women as I can. Feeling guilty doesn't change the situation: your being a good person does.

Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye" is one of my favorite books, and it was the first book that (pardon the pun) enlightened me in articulating colorist (as a medium-skinned black male child, I had never experienced it directly...but I had probably cruelly mocked those darker than I was. The book made me stop it.)

Truth! Racism elsewhere often cloaks itself and is less obvious but, unfortunately, it's not confined to one geographical region,..

Because there was no dress code stated, you can't kick someone out if you didn't state the rules beforehand. If there were a dress code, then I'd expect attendees to adhere to it.

It's 2014, and next year will be 2015, and the year after that will be 2016. Thanks for the almanac.

They should have stated a dress code, and it should have stated "Formal": then a snazzy little pair of tuxedo trousers would have been fine (and divine).

"The South" is not one big, monolithic place with only one set of values: Atlanta differs from Birmingham, and there are differences within those cities. You know your part of the South...and my cousins know theirs.

I'm black, and I have two cousins in Alabama who are married to whites. And they have had no crosses burned on their laws, and their children seem to be like any other kids (although I haven't interrogated them about what's it like to have parents of different races - as they're children, not science experiments).

They're great for networking. How do you think men get into the Old Boys' Club? They meet at schools first.

Sometimes, law changes happen after public opinion turns (marriage equality), sometimes public opinion shifts after laws have been changed: there wasn't widespread acceptance of interracial marriage when the Loving v. Virginia case struck down laws against interracial marriage, but interracial marriage is now much…