Oh thank goodness. We’ve been waiting for this. Ever since Angelina Jolie was named as the world’s most powerful celebrity, we’ve been waiting.

We’re referring to Jennifer Aniston’s crackpot retort, of course. And, on Friday at the Women In Film Awards, that retort finally came. Dressed in about three square millimetres of tinfoil, Jennifer Aniston hopped up on stage and – get this – told a self-deprecating joke about her love life. Take that, Brangelina!

Obviously Jennifer Aniston’s appearance and joke may have had little or nothing to do with Angelina Jolie whatsoever. But that’d be less entertaining, so shut up.

This endless back and forth struggle for attention between Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie has got to stop before it spirals out of control. It’s getting crazy – first Angelina Jolie was named as the most powerful celebrity on Earth, then Jennifer Aniston tells a joke at an awards show. Then Angelina Jolie has to respond by sticking the knife in again via the medium of donating a million dollars to help treat children with cancer, only for Jennifer Aniston to go one better by wearing a fairly shiny dress. It’s madness. Actual madness.

And, yes, you might argue that Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie aren’t constantly trying to top each other in public, and that this feud is an entirely fabricated media construct whereby anything said or done by Jennifer Aniston or Angelina Jolie gets twisted so that it looks like a part of an ongoing bitter squabble, and that the only logical way for this to end is for both Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie to become actual reclusive life-long hermits. To which we say ‘Duh, that’s kind of the point. Stop spoiling it.’

But anyway, where were we? Oh yes, that’s it – Jennifer Aniston furiously lashed out at Angelina Jolie at the Women In Film Awards on Friday by wearing a short silver dress that showed off her boobs quite a lot and then telling a joke that didn’t reference Angelina Jolie by name at all and probably wasn’t even about her or anything. What a massive bitch.

According to People, when Jennifer Aniston won the Crystal Award for expanding the role of women in the entertainment industry on Friday, she made this crack:

“It’s funny — I kind of noticed a few years ago, there seems to be a strange parallel between the movies I’m doing and my life offscreen. It started with ‘The Good Girl,’ then of course ‘Rumor Has It,’ followed by ‘Derailed.’ Then there was ‘The Break Up.’… “If any of you have a project titled ‘Everlasting Love with a Stable Adult Male,’ I’m at table six and my agents are at table 12!”

It’s a nice joke, although Jennifer Aniston clearly forgot to mention her role in He’s Just Not That Into You, where the titular ‘he’ refers to any man who she’s starring in a movie with, except for the exact duration of the promotional cycle for that given movie, in which case he’s willing to appear to be into you quite a lot.

Anyway, let’s put aside this ridiculous, completely made-up Aniston/ Jolie feud to celebrate the fact that Jennifer Aniston has been recognised for her perseverance and determination to expand the gender-constricted roles found in the entertainment industry. It’s proof that – no matter how hard Hollywood tries to crush your feminist ideals – with a little hard work and a lot of dedication, you too might end up being able to beat the system by starring in a kid’s film about an adorably naughty little doggy-woggy. Inspiring stuff.

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