What in the world is George Will trying to do with his column this week?

I understand and share his disdain for overly sensitive people who too easily have their feelings hurt — see his examples about receptionists taking titles like “director of first impressions,” and teachers who no longer grade papers in self-esteem-sapping red ink.

But he bizarrely leads by mocking Jane Fonda for writing in her memoir that her feelings were hurt when husband Ted Turner her first husband coerced her into having threesomes with other women.

That’s quite a bit different than the other examples, isn’t it? Is Will saying that a wife hurt by a husband who repeatedly asks her to join him in threesomes is an example of political correctness gone amuck? Really? Is he defending threesomes?

Or are we supposed to just give him a pass because we’re talking about Jane Fonda, whom it’s always acceptable to ridicule?

CORRECTION: Slightly libelous mistake corrected above.

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