On Goop.com and Gwyneth Paltrow...

For some reason, I never like to watch Gwyneth Paltrow. In fact, I don't understand why and how she could have won that Oscar for her shallow performance in Shakespeare In Love.

Having said that, I wouldn't argue that she's good-looking. I would wonder though, as to whether anyone would want to emulate her.

Apparently, Paltrow has a different idea, and thinks that everyone wants to look, dress, and live like her. Such was her attempt at starting Goop.com. The ridiculous life-style website that she's started, expecting people to flock to her like people used to do with everything Martha Stewart.

Paltrow must not have realized the reason why people like Sandra Bullock more than herself. That's because Bullock is infinitely more accessible to everyday women than Paltrow, as people can more readily relate to Bullock than to Paltrow, primarily because Bullock looks like an ordinary women. When Bullcok makes herself look good or cute, women feel that they can do that too.

That's definitely not the case with Paltrow. Sure, she has the golden, flower-child look, and ridiculously thin skeleton that is likely to qualify her as an malnourished model on catwalk. But that's what most women themselves. When Paltrow thinks she looks good in that skimpy dress, it's likely that 99.99999% of the women out there can't even get a similar looking dress pass their buttocks.

So, when criticisms start piling in on her, it's amazing that Paltrow can still argue against the crowd, claiming that everyone else who disagrees with her just "doesn't get it." She fails to see that she's the only one who doesn't get it.

I very much doubt that the criticisms on Goop.com are based primarily on the fact that Paltrow is tone-deaf about how bad the economy is right now, and that women would hardly have time or money to follow her every move like paparazzi. Good times or bad, I simply do not believe that Paltrow is going to succeed in translating her golden look into cult following and extra revenue source to her. I simply don't think people care much about Paltrow, after her split with Brad Pitt.