14 DAY TRIAL // Well, it looks like Gwyneth is feeling the hate these days coming from mothers, as she was recently quoted as saying that her actress job was much tougher than mothers working a 9 to 5 job. That must be the reason she's now trying to cover up those controversial statements by saying that they were taken out of context.
On her lifestyle site Goop, which has become her medium for expression these days after she also used it to reveal her divorce from Chris Martin (it can't hurt the website's traffic either), Gwyneth has addressed the issue in a post called “Ending the Mommy Wars.”
The actress is lamenting that her answer to the question about regular moms was taken out of context. In so many words, Gwyneth is explaining that she didn't actually say what she was quoted as saying and that she would never speak against the working mothers of the world.
“A few weeks ago during an interview, I was asked why I have only worked on one film a year since having children. My answer was this: Film work takes one away from home and requires 12-14 hours a day, making it difficult to be the one to make the kids their lunch, drive them to school, and put them to bed,” Gwyneth begins her case.
“So I have found it easier on my family life to make a film the exception, and my 9-5 job the rule. This somehow was taken to mean I had said a 9-5 job is easier, and a lot of heat was thrown my way, especially by other working mothers who somehow used my out-of-context quote as an opportunity to express feelings (perhaps projected) on the subject.”
She then cunningly employs the “I'm one of you” tactic, identifying herself with the rest of the women out there, “I am constantly perplexed and amazed by how little slack we cut each other as women.”
Basically, what she's saying is that it's your fault for criticizing her and not her own for saying the things she may or may not have said. That's a nice way of throwing the guilt around and making a home run when life throws you a curve ball.
“Is it not hard enough to attempt to raise children thoughtfully, while contributing something, or bringing home some (or more) of the bacon? Why do we feel so entitled to opine, often so negatively, on the choices of other women? Perhaps because there is so much pressure to do it all, and do it all well all at the same time (impossible),” concludes Gwyneth, giving food for thought to all the women of the world.