This Week In F–k You: The Wall Street Journal

It’s the offseason. There’s no football on, and there won’t be for a long, long time. You’re hurt. You’re angry. You’re hateful. We understand. At KSK, hating things is what we do best. Which is why we have the ongoing series This Week In F–K You. This week: The Wall Street Journal. Last year, the Wall Street Journal introduced us to Tiger Mother Amy Chua by posting an excerpt from her book with the trolltastic headline Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior. And now that we’ve gotten all that Chinese parent-hating out of our system, they’ve handed us this essay from Pamela Druckerman titled “Why French Parents Are Superior.” Taken on its own, the piece reinforces many of the “firm but friendly” techniques that American parents like myself have been trying to learn for a while now: It struck me that most French descriptions of American kids include this phrase “n’importe quoi,” meani...