Gwyneth Paltrow's 'War' Language Too Figurative For Cindy McCain?
Gwyneth Paltrow's comments in which she compared - in a figurative fashion - the trials of war to coping with the onslaught of comments made by internet trolls. Cindy McCain, wife of US Senator John McCain, rushed to the defence of the US troops and claimed Paltrow "is a joke" on Twitter.
Perhaps making comments in which you compare the traumas of celebrity with being enrolled in the armed forces isn't the best idea around Memorial Day. But Gwyneth Paltrow wasn't remotely perturbed and blundered through a minefield (sorry Mrs McCain) of press questions at a technology conference held on Monday (27th May). The 41-year-old actress compared the constant threat of internet trolls with the prospect of going to war.
Gwyneth Paltrow compared her enduring troll comments to being at war.
Paltrow was describing the difficulties of seeing negative comments and deliberately hurtful remarks posted online, especially as she is such a high profile figure. The Iron Man actress told the assembled press, as Re-Code reports, how the barrage of comments was "almost like how, in war, you go through this bloody, dehumanizing thing, and then something is defined out of it."
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