# J-Lo and Ben Afflect break up! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 14, 2003, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/j-lo-and-ben-afflect-break-up/201598 "2003-09-14T18:32:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Blalron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Blalron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blalron)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/j-lo-and-ben-afflect-break-up/201598/1 "2003-09-14T18:32:19Z")
[http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030914/us\_nm/people\_lopez\_dc\_2](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030914/us_nm/people_lopez_dc_2) I never thought their relationship would last. It always seemed like the epitome of fake hollywood relationships. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/j-lo-and-ben-afflect-break-up/201598/2 "2003-09-14T18:35:13Z")
[See also…](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=211212) ---
**Author:** ![Blalron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Blalron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blalron)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/j-lo-and-ben-afflect-break-up/201598/3 "2003-09-14T18:36:52Z")
Doh! ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/j-lo-and-ben-afflect-break-up/201598/4 "2003-09-14T19:33:29Z")
\*\* Blalron - “It always seemed like the epitome of fake hollywood relationships.”\*\* What about Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley ? ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/j-lo-and-ben-afflect-break-up/201598/5 "2003-09-14T19:50:20Z")
**wolf\_meister.** Touché. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/j-lo-and-ben-afflect-break-up/201598/6 "2003-09-14T19:58:17Z")
I always thought Ben Affleck could do a lot better than her. “J.Lo” is the prototypical obnoxious diva, complete with entourages, ‘mystic advisors’, multiple failed marriages, and all the other trappings of a not-very-bright woman with far too much money and power, and without the character to handle it. Affleck seems like an intelligent, decent guy. He should find himself a sold professional woman with class and have a happy life. ---
**Author:** ![Muldoon\_s\_Squishiness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@Muldoon\_s\_Squishiness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muldoon_s_Squishiness)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/j-lo-and-ben-afflect-break-up/201598/7 "2003-09-14T20:32:58Z")
Try again. None of this has been confirmed, and even People says that if indeed they have broken up, that it is only temporary. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/j-lo-and-ben-afflect-break-up/201598/8 "2003-09-14T22:49:30Z")
Spoilsport! ---
**Author:** ![Muldoon\_s\_Squishiness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@Muldoon\_s\_Squishiness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muldoon_s_Squishiness)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/j-lo-and-ben-afflect-break-up/201598/9 "2003-09-15T01:24:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by twickster \* > \*\*Spoilsport! \*\* Grow the hell up. Celebrating other peoples (apparent) misfortune shows that you have absolutely **no** class. The above statement goes for just about every other Doper who posted in this thread as well. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/j-lo-and-ben-afflect-break-up/201598/10 "2003-09-15T01:48:23Z")
**Muldoon’s Squishiness.** Hey, I only said “Touché.” ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/j-lo-and-ben-afflect-break-up/201598/11 "2003-09-15T02:59:22Z")
You know, if I had any inkling that either of these people had actual feelings to be hurt, and that this was anything other than an enormous grab for public attention, I might feel bad about my schadenfreude. But I don’t, and I don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/j-lo-and-ben-afflect-break-up/201598/12 "2003-09-15T03:32:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by twickster \* > \*\*But I don’t, and I don’t. \*\* And the questions are: 1. Do I care if **Muldoon’s Squishiness** thinks poorly of me for being glad that this may be the end of the Bennifer media circus? and 2. Do I think **Muldoon’s Squishiness’s** personal attack of **twickster** and “just about every other Doper who posted in this thread” (not to mention the _other_ thread he/she felt the need to berate everyone in) belongs in Cafe Society?