Have you read Molly Lambert's great essay on Jennifer Aniston over at Grantland? You should:

Jennifer Aniston is a loner. Not a loser, a loner. She gets called a loser because she seems like a loner who might rather not be alone, and I guess vacationing in Mexico with Courteney Cox doesn't count. She gets called a loser because she married an actor who represents the most traditional ideals of male beauty, and then he left her for an actress who stands for the most extreme iteration of female sexual power. She gets called a loser because there is a persistent belief that no unmarried woman can be all that happy, no matter how much else she has. If her marriage to Brad Pitt represented the triumph of the girl next door, her divorce is the kick in the face that says "Stay in your lane."

Read the rest here.