And that bit of self-delusion and entitlement brings us again to our favorite victim of the pandemic, Gwyneth ‘Contagion’ Paltrow.
Now, I know this interview was done a while ago—though some of the quotes were gathered post-lockdown—but on the cover of Town and Country, Contagion appears alongside the headline:
“Gwyneth Paltrow Accepts Your Apology”
Um, bitch, please. I ain’t apologizing to you when you say moronic shit like …she invented walking:
“Walking is my new thing. My best mom friend out here is a real walker. She was living in Hong Kong with her banker husband, and I was in London with my musician husband, and we moved to L.A. after having been expats for a long time. She started taking me on walks.”
So, Contagion hadn’t walked until after she divorced Chris Martin? I guess she had the staff carry her around. And, even though she didn’t learn to walk 2016, she is on the cutting edge of health and wellness, no matter what you think:
“You can keep resisting it, but I’m on the right side of this. I’m watching the market. I’m watching what’s happening. I think what this wellness movement is really about is listening to yourself, tuning into what interests you, and trying things. Find what makes you feel better and go from there.”
Yes, no one had ever thought about health and wellness until Contagion popped open a diet book and then got her vagina steamed. And last but not least, she knows people don’t like her, but her reason why is laughable:
“The people who are triggered by me—‘I don’t like her because she is pretty and she has money’—it’s because they haven’t given themselves permission to be exactly who they are. It doesn’t mean anything to me, because it’s not about me. It’s about what I represent, and that’s about you.”
Hey, Contagion? Bob from Smallville, here, and I’m one of those folks that doesn’t like you, and it has nothing to do with you being pretty—and pretty was never a word I’d associate with you—or rich. It’s because you’re self-involved, and egotistical and narcissistic and arrogant and dangerous because you peddle some really ignorant shiz to women, and perhaps some men, who buy into it because you act like an expert.
You didn’t start walking until you were forty-four. Become an expert on that and perhaps we’ll change out minds. Become an expert on relating to people who don’t have $800 for a dildo or $1800 for a t-short or don’t want a steaming pu— … vagina. Until then, you do you, and I’ll do a human being who’s been walking since before I turned two, and all without your help.
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