Gerard Butler Caps It Off Newsboy Style

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MM
I’m so proud of you… great comment!

Hey, just gotta say it. “Let him without sin cast the first stone.” I think that in a nut shell is what mARKASITE MADAME is trying to say roughly. You all grab those boulders and start throwing.

Ya know, those who mentioned the lighting ‘effect’ in these airport pix might be onto something. I just went back and looked at several inside and outside the terminal, and the infamous ‘chipmunk cheeks’ just aren’t visible in the outdoors’ ones. Hehehe - you could use the argument that the cover of darkness or shadows are hiding the pudgy cheek phenomenon, but it doesn’t appear so. I do have to agree that the holy shirt thing going on does little to enhance his more appealing attributes. But then again, I never got the impression he really cares all that much if the press (particularly ‘yellow’ in nature) or various ‘n sundry detractors have a field day dissing on him from top to bottom. Just MHO, of course… Cait ;o)

@Julia:

LOL!

@Colin:

ROTFL

I know this is just a gossip board and people say whatever they want without fear of a lawsuit, but what I really wonder is why anyone enjoys putting down with such bitterness someone they don’t even know. I realize it’s not just GB as some other celebs get even worse treatment .

There are a few celebs I really despise, but I just ignore them. I would not go onto their sites and cut them to pieces - although I may think it, I keep it to myself.

I prefer to stay with GB, whom I really like. . . and I’m certainly not in the camp of fans who think he is a saint. I rather like it that he is NOT a saint.

I liked him when he was younger and had that oh so beautiful face, and I like him today now that he’s become a sexy MAN. How many of us look the same as we did a decade ago? Anyway, I think he’s got more going for him than anybody else his age, older or younger.

And guess what, I can come on here and say what I want to as well as those who get off on posting negative comments all over the boards.

Yeah he also has a pretty insane hate group base

@sotrue:

Well said. I totally agree.

To everyone out there: I’m not gushing over Gerry Butler, I’m not saying he’s any kind of saint or paragon of virtue, he’s only a normal man from where I sit. I’m a moderate fan, who happens to like his movies and admire him for the good I have read about him. I certainly DO NOT KNOW HIM OR PROFESS TO KNOW HIM IN ANY WAY. He has made a few mistakes in his life, but haven’t we all? How many of us out there are without transgressions in our lives along the way? The point I am trying to make in my posts, with everyone taking my words and twisting them into some kind of “fanatic” fan rants, and totally misinterpreting my meanings, is that nobody can judge him, one way or another, on just a picture or some blog that someone writes about him, which more often than not, is skewed and made up, at least altered for the benefit of those writing the blogs. Gerry has admitted to some of the things he has done, which is an admirable trait in itself, he doesn’t try to sweep his faults and transgressions under the rug. He openly talks about his college days, his drinking and wild times, even his being put in jail in his 20s from being drunk and disorderly in LA - presumably when he was here on his college break as an extra in The Bodyguard. He doesn’t hide or deny what he does or has done, but in reality, he hasn’t done anything any more than any other celebrity has done, yet they don’t get knocked down as much as Gerry does. I read other celebritie’s sites and I don’t see them being criticized to the extent that Gerry is.

I realize that a good part of what is said negatively about Gerry is for the benefit of his fans, to cause them as much grief as possible. I know that his fans are not well liked, and thought of as a pack of overweight, aging, unhappy housewives, who depend on their “fantasy” of Gerry to get them through their days and nights. This is the general consensus of opinion, but could not be any further from the truth. I have been to a couple of Gerry’s charity conventions and have also made friends with some of his “fans” and they are all very normal women, most of them professional women, lawyers, doctors, college professors. The general description of Gerry’s fans is as far off base as it can be, and I have not met one single unhappy housewife who uses Gerry to supply her “fantasy.” I certainly do not, I have a wonderful husband, two wonderful children,and a full and productive life. That does not keep me from wondering why so many have so much animosity in their hearts (if they have hearts), for a man that none of us know enough about to pass the kind of judgment that is so readily passed on him.

I’m not defending anything that Gerry does that is in any way wrong or questionable. But there is no need whatsoever to be cruel and mean spirited toward him on every turn. He’s in the spotlight a lot, he gets trashed by the bloggers as it is, and ridiculed and made fun of by them, why does it have to continue on from the private sector, with such cruelty and condemnation, more often than not from people who have no idea what they are talking about anyway.

Show a little humanity where Gerry is concerned, he deserves at least that much, whether you are a fan of his or not, he deserves a bit of kindness from time to time. He certainly does not deserve the kind of treatment he generally gets here.

MM

@mARKASITE MADAME:

Shut the f/ck up already. You are making an ass out of yourself.

@MM:

Your personal attacks make YOU look ugly and the fact that YOU post under a topic about Butler makes you one of his fans too. Fan enough to comment on him.

Sugar, honey, what makes you think anyone here hates him? This is another example of your extremism. If someone says “He looks horrible in that shirt” suddenly they’re a hater. If someone says “He’s behaving like a manwhore” they’re a hater. How is that hate? That’s stating an opinion. It doesn’t necessarily have the same amount of emotion and attachment to it as what you’re obviously stating because you’re getting so emotional about defending the man. It’s really not that big a deal to most people. To you and one or two others here and on the fansites, it’s a HUGE deal. Again, it results in an equal and opposite reaction when you attack people for having an opinion.