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In a very succinct and quiet way, Ashton Kutcher and Perez Hilton are feuding on Twitter right now.
Both the actor and the gossip blogger have accounts on Twitter, a social networking and micro-blogging site that allows its users to publish short updates in 140 characters or less. On the site, at this very moment, the two men are squabbling over Perez Hilton's less-than-positive coverage of Kutcher's step children, namely Rumer Willis:
Ashton: when you have kids you will understand the pain you have unnecessarily inflicted on my step kids life. You can bash me all day
Perez: Rumer invited the attention upon herself. She is a huge famewhore - and I totally respect that. I love talentless famewhores!
Ashton: honestly don’t even know you and would love to call a truce just lay off my kids man
Perez: I don’t really talk about the other girls. Just Potato Head, mainly. I’m sure she secretly loves it!
Ashton: come by for dinner some night and I’ll show how much she loves it
Ashton: invented attention upon herself, why does that bother you? hmmmm
Perez: I'm a fat kid at heart and am still a porker. I love to eat! Say when and I'll be there!
Perez: See, I don't ALWAYS say mean things about Potato. Kinda. (link)
Perez: And I can guarantee you that if I COMPLETELY stopped talking about Rumerzilla, she'd be sad. Very very sad.
While we're sure that at his core, Perez is just another 'fat kid' trying to stay on the right side of the gossip circuit, it's hard to overlook just how callous he must be to bad mouth Kutcher's step daughter directly to his (virtual) face. Calling his wife Demi's daughter 'Rumerzilla' in a message directly to her stepfather is blatantly disrespectful and childish.
If Kutcher's a big enough man to directly ask Perez to stop trashing Rumer, shouldn't Perez be big enough to stop?