What a wise thing to say; people always react well when an actor compares their job to actually being in the throes of battle. Must be part of the social experiment Gwyneth currently sees herself apart of... we'll get to that in a minute.
Let's start at the beginning(ish). Gwyneth said this about being a working mother, Then Angelina Jolie had her subtle pot shot, and now Busy Phillips as gotten on board. During an interview with The HuffPost Live yesterday, the 34-year-old said:
'God bless her, she really just says what she feels. That's her reality. That's her truth. It's just not mine. I have a different reality and a different truth... Being a working mom, I've got it made. I'm on a TV show where my hiatus is [my kids'] summer, so I'm free to be with them in the summer time. I'm able to afford full-time help because of what I do. My husband also works, and my nanny makes my life doable and so easy. I feel like, for me, I have nothing to complain about in that regard...I don't ever feel like I have to stop myself from complaining about how hard it is to be an actress. I mean, it's not that hard."
But it is that hard, Busy - when you're Gwyneth Paltrow and the internet is intent on using you as a "chalkboard."
The 41-year-old actress told technology news website Re/code at the Code Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, on Tuesday: "You come across [online comments] about yourself and about your friends, and it's a very dehumanising thing."
OK, it is horrible, that's absolutely fair enough - had she stopped there.
Paltrow continued: "It's almost like how, in war, you go through this bloody, dehumanising thing, and then something is defined out of it. My hope is, as we get out of it, we'll reach the next level of conscience."
Of course there's more. Gwyneth believes people should take a long hard look at themselves before they post negative things about her online.
"It's taken me a long time to get to the point where I can see these things and not take it as a personal affront and a hurt. I see myself as a chalkboard or a whiteboard or a screen, and someone is just putting up their own projection on it.... It has nothing to do with me. They have an internal object, and they're putting it on me. I kind of look at it as, 'Wow this is an interesting social experiment.' You're talking about a blind stranger having feelings about you. It can only be projection."
Again, that's a fair point... but you've kinda negated everything by comparing some nasty comments on the internet, that come as a result of your privileged career, to being "in war."
Guess I'll be waiting quite some time for that next level of conscience to rock around.
