A Green Beret Has Some Choice Words About Gwyneth Paltrow’s Comparison Of Tweets To War
http://www.ijreview.com/2014/05/142632-green-beret-choice-words-gwyneth-paltrows-comparison-tweets-war/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 bizâ€, 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 “dehumanizingâ€, 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.
Bryan Sikes nails it right on.
Here are some idiotic comment.
Michael Allen · PSS at Captain Lewis Residence
What's laughable is how people are taking words from a tweet literally. She obviously would never pretend to comprehend real-life armed combat. It's called a metaphor, like when you call a lawyer a shark (well, that's a simile), but damn, doesn't he have more important things to do than to write letters to Gwyneth Paltrow?
He cuts and paste this repeatedly.
Michael Allen · PSS at Captain Lewis Residence
Mark Wester Here's fifty since 2008. Regardless of how conservative you are, you can't possibly disagree with everything on this list.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/march_april_2012/features/obamas_top_50_accomplishments035755.php/
Typical leftist.
Michael Allen · PSS at Captain Lewis Residence
What's laughable is how people are taking words from a tweet literally. She obviously would never pretend to comprehend real-life armed combat. It's called a metaphor, like when you call a lawyer a shark (well, that's a simile), but damn, doesn't he have more important things to do than to write letters to Gwyneth Paltrow?
Michael Allen · PSS at Captain Lewis Residence
Joan Wells Groat I'm defending the English language. The Green Beret is not upsetting me, the fact the people are rallying behind him simply for wearing uniform is what upsets me. It's an ignorant thing to do. It upsets me how blown out of proportion this whole thing is. People need to relax with all that HOOAH shit because they don't actually know anything about this Bryan Sikes or Paltrow. She used a simile, which is meant to make specifically outrageous comparisons.
So says the leftist.
Wayne McMichael · Top Commenter · Self owned at Self Employed Artist
Soldiers don't stoop to this kind of pettiness.
Wayne McMichael · Top Commenter · Self owned at Self Employed Artist
Sooo Bryan Sikes needs to attack women to feel better about himself... interesting. Of course he hasn't been a target of the social media and has no idea about it, but taking down women is easy, so yeah do that... you weak moron.
Like you.
Wayne McMichael · Top Commenter · Self owned at Self Employed Artist
What about Paltrow's right to express her feelings without being bashed. Maybe he was just upset because he got his high heels muddy:) I'd rather have Paltrow covering my back than a damn cry baby.
Free speech cuts both ways! If you have an opinion, be prepared to have people disagree with it. Sounds like a libtard.
