Last week, Paltrow announced that she accepted a challenge put upon by the New York Food Bank to live on a limited amount of money for a week. During this, she and her family have to carefully spend a limited budget ($29) enough for food to last the week. This is like government assistance for those in the US whom are destitute/in poverty.
The apex of this is this tweet she made at the stat of her challenge.
Who the hell needs seven limes for meals?
This is what $29 gets you at the grocery store—what families on SNAP (i.e. food stamps) have to live on for a week. pic.twitter.com/OZMPA3nxij
— Gwyneth Paltrow (@GwynethPaltrow) April 9, 2015
We're walking in their shoes to see how far we get. I nominate @RidingShotgunLA to do #FoodBankNYCChallenge & donate: http://t.co/eBEJ0hqEHG
— Gwyneth Paltrow (@GwynethPaltrow) April 9, 2015"Walking in their shoes"?? You don't even know what it's like walking in your shoes! You're too busy thinking of other parts of yourself.
I've never cared much for Paltrow except for the films she starred in. Now, I still don't care for her, but I now have contempt for her. And all it took was to live like people who can't live like you, or even middle-class people.
Oh you poor pampered woman. You feel like you have a reason on Earth to makes us feel better: living amongst the people who have not much and everything beyond reach. Despite the fact that you have the money to buy at least 1/8 of those people enough to last a year!! Who the hell do you think you are?! Believing this would change people's perception of you, when it won't change shit.
And another thing, most people don't spend their SNAP money on vegetables or fruit. I'm pretty sure most cereals or pastas don't exist in her world.
Anyway, this week, she stopped--no, failed the challenge by doing a ritzy restaurant in LA and chowing down meat with actor/director Jon Favreau. She failed her challenge after eating the food she loves, and even graded herself during the challenge. Oh please, we all know the reason why: she didn't want to do the challenge because she didn't want to subject herself to something she sees as beneath her. So she consciously uncouple herself from the challenge by going to a restaurant and blowing off a grand+ on a fancy meal. She could've done it for friends, but even if she did, they could've paid it for her. So that was a dick thing to do.
Screw you, lady!! This is why no one really likes you. You are snotty, jerkish, self-centered and a complete bitch. And for years, you brutally spew disrespect at the people who have no choice but to rely on government assistance for food, because they eat unhealthy food and live disgusting lifestyles. And while that may be true, they can't eat what you're eating because it's too expensive for them, and they need something that's filling and not made of air.
And now, you've decided to be like them?? How dare you?! We all know you're not doing this to raise awareness toward people who do such; you're doing this to appease yourself. This is all a part of your website "goop", which is the corniest website dedicated to health. Or at least it could be, but it's just a blog-like website that serves upscale, snotty-ass people who give less of a fuck about anyone else, with health stuff to barely look for.
I mean look at this:
Yeah, I'm sure four-inch pumps are the next best thing to jogging a mile a the park, or sushi is the perfect entrée to lose 10 pounds, or looking at some people's bodies is an inspiring story of how they shed the weight perfect enough for People magazine.
I was wrong, this website is the cornucopia of perfect health and lifestyle.
Anyway, this is a dumb-ass thing she's done, and I'm happy that she stopped it days later. She deserved the backlash she got for it, and will still become one
of the biggest douchebags on Earth. I understand she did this because the New York Food Bank took her up on challenge, and she accepted it. I don't blame her for that; they're just doing this to raise awareness for the people who live on welfare or Section 8 that live on government assistance, and that's great. I now think this gives off a lot of attention to SNAP and call on many others to help the disenfranchised and destitute. And it's a great thing, and I hope everyone does what they can to help out. Give to Feeding America, Action Against Hunger and The New York Food Bank and many Americans (along with others around the world) will have better lives on the long run into the future. As for the timing in this, it couldn't get worse. All she could've done was waited until the challenge ended to at least celebrate the challenge's success or celebrate the fact that it's over so she can get on with her asshole life, and then brag her results to everyone, and then the awareness would go on more organically (no pun intended). But this happens. Oh well.
Other than that, I eagerly await her new films coming later in the year.
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