Arguing with conservative family members -- fiscal or social -- is never pleasant during the holidays, so here's a quick and to-the-point way* of avoiding these scenarios, via Jessica Biel:
This post is brought to you by my recent viewing of I'll Be Home for Christmas (1998) on cable, which I hadn't seen since I was in grade school. If you put aside the plot and geographical schizophrenia, toxic lead (remember when Hollywood was trying to make Jonathan Taylor Thomas happen?), and snide tone it isn't quite as cringe-worthy as you'd expect, but that's as far as I can take it.
Biel isn't half-bad in it, though, particularly when she has something to do other than ooh and aah over J.T.T. and his deep knowledge of E.E. Cummings (i.e. the go-to E.E. Cummings pick-up line), like the above scene for instance. Tetchy and pissed off fits her surprisingly well, in the best possible since. It definitely helps her a lot here with an underwritten character whose main arc essentially boils down to: "My boyfriend is a douche, but at least he's not as big of a douche as the horndog antagonist." Allie should take her own advice and ditch the chauvinistic jerks in her life.
* Obviously I don't condone "slugging" any of your family members, but given the current socio-political landscape where sexism, racism, and homophobia are rampant, it's important to speak out against any instances of those actions, even if you're close to the person.
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