Actress Gwyneth Paltrow made a lot of people angry on Tuesday, when she compared the experience of reading online criticism about oneself to going through war.

“You come across (online comments) about yourself and about your friends, and it’s a very dehumanizing thing,” Paltrow said during an interview with Re/code. “It’s almost like how, in war, you go through this bloody, dehumanizing thing.”

The first person to slam Paltrow was Cindy McCain, wife of Arizona Senator John McCain, a former prisoner of war during Vietnam. “Gwyneth Paltrow is a joke. Her life is like taking bullets for a soldier. What a joke! My 2 sons serving in the military should talk to her,” Cindy tweeted on Wednesday.

Paltrow may have thought she had weathered the storm when the reactions slowed to a trickle and fellow actress Charlize Theron took some of the pressure off of her by telling Sky News that the media’s interest in her is like rape, but that changed when Green Beret Bryan Sikes criticized the actress in a guest column for Clash Daily.

“I’d first like to start out by saying how terrible I feel for you and all your friends that on a daily basis have to endure mean words written by people you don’t know,” Sikes wrote. “I can only imagine the difficulty of waking up in a 12,000 square foot Hollywood home and having your assistant retrieve your iPhone, only to see that the battery is low and someone on twitter…has written a mean word or two about you.”

“You all have actually convinced yourselves that you in some way face difficulty on a regular basis,” he added. “Let me be the first to burst your bubble: a long line at Starbucks, your driver being 3 minutes late, a scuff mark on your $1200 shoes and a mean tweet do not constitute difficulty in the eyes of a soldier.”

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