I feel bad for Gwyneth Paltrow because people don’t seem to like her very much but she doesn’t exactly help herself by coming out with ridiculous statements all the time, like the other month when she said it’s easier to work a desk job than to be a movie star/mum. As a hard working blogger, I found it particularly offensive!

She’s now come out with this quote when asked about Internet trolls and Internet culture in general:

“You come across online comments about yourself and your friends, and it’s a very dehumanizing thing. It’s almost like how, in war, you go through this bloody, dehumanizing thing… My hope is, as we get out of it, we’ll reach the next level of our conscience.”

Kinda get what she means, but comparing getting riddled with bullets and blown up and watching your friends die and lose limbs to an anonymous person using 140 characters to call you a slag/crap actress probably wasn’t the wisest of moves. Not too sure but she might be the first person in history to make that comparison.

Mean tweets:

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War:

A green beret who heard what Paltrow said wrote into Clash Daily where he left this letter for her:

To Miss Paltrow,

I’d first like to start out by saying how terrible I feel for you and all your friends that on a daily basis have to endure mean words written by people you don’t know. I can only imagine the difficulty of waking up in a 12,000 square foot Hollywood home and having your assistant retrieve your iPhone, only to see that the battery is low and someone on twitter (the social media concept that you and all of your friends contribute to on an hourly basis to feed your ego and narcissistic ways), has written a mean word or 2 about you. You’ve hit the nail on the head, war is exactly like that. You should receive a medal for the burden you have carried on your shoulders due to these meanies on social media.

You said, “Its almost like, how in war, you go through this bloody dehumanizing thing and then something is defined out of it.” I could see how you, and others like you in “the biz”, could be so insecure and mentally weak that you could pair the difficulty of your life on twitter to my brothers who have had their limbs ripped off and seen their friends shot, blown up, burned and disfigured, or wake up every morning in pain — while just starting the day is a challenge. How about our wives? The ones that sign on to be there for us through thick and thin, that help us to shake the hardships of war upon our return? And do all this while being mothers to our kids, keeping bills in order because we are always gone, and keeping our lives glued together. They do all this, by the way, without a team of accountants, nanny’s, personal assistants, and life coaches. Yeah, reading a mean tweet is just like all that.

You know what is really “dehumanizing”, Miss Paltrow? The fact that you’d even consider that your life as an “A-list” celebrity reading internet comments could even compare to war and what is endured on the battlefield. You and the other “A-listers” that think like you are laughable. You all have actually convinced yourselves that you in some way face difficulty on a regular basis. Let me be the first to burst your bubble: a long line at Starbucks, your driver being 3 minutes late, a scuff mark on your $1200 shoes and a mean tweet do not constitute difficulty in the eyes of a soldier.

Understand me when I say this: war does not define me. It is a chapter in my life that helped shaped me. Being a husband and father is what defines me. Remember, sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never…be close to what war is.

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So just so we’re clear — being blown up, burned and disfigured in a war zone in Afghanistan and being told you’re an idiot by @BigDick4000 on Twitter are not the same thing. Got it. Obviously we’re sure she didn’t mean it quite as harshly as everyone is taking it, but maybe a different analogy next time.