{"id":11347,"date":"2016-09-05T15:40:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T19:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/?p=11347"},"modified":"2017-03-22T16:02:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T20:02:42","slug":"big-think-mary-louis-parker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/big-think-mary-louis-parker\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Think: Mary Louise Parker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mary Louise Parker<\/strong> is a bestselling author and award-winning actress.\u00a0Her first book, Dear Mr. You<\/a><\/em>, is a New York Times bestseller that follows the legacy of her father, a three-tour American soldier. She has been a frequent contributor to Esquire\u00a0<\/em>magazine. \u00a0Her writing has appeared in O Magazine<\/em>, The Riveter<\/em>, Good Housekeeping<\/em>, Bullet<\/em>, and others. She is a Tony, Emmy, Obie, and two-time Golden Globe winner for her roles in the\u00a0Proof<\/em>, How I Learned to Drive<\/em>,\u00a0Prelude to a Kiss<\/em>, Four Dogs and a Bone<\/em>, and\u00a0The Snow Geese<\/em>. On television she has appeared in Mike Nichols\u2019 Angels in America<\/em>, Weeds<\/em>, and The West Wing<\/em>, along with numerous television movies. She performed on the big screen in RED<\/em>, RIPD<\/em>, Fried Green Tomatoes, The Client, Solitary Man, Red Dragon, The Portrait of a Lady, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.<\/em><\/p>\n

Military Life Is Misunderstood by the Left and the Right<\/h3>\n

Parker is the daughter of an American soldier who fought in three wars. In her Big Think video “Military Life Is Misunderstood by the Left and the Right,”<\/a> Parker discusses stereotypes that she has grown up hearing about soldiers.<\/p>\n

“I think that people have an idea that there is one kind of mind, one kind of mentality that is attracted to the military and that\u2019s not necessarily true,” says Parker. “It can be true. I do understand it and maybe in this day and age it\u2019s more true than certainly when my father went into the war but my father was in three wars and he was a massive lefty. You know he was the most politically open minded liberal person. \u00a0He used to say no one hates war more than a soldier, you know.”<\/p>\n

Parker says not only are stereotypes associated with soldiers, but they are also wrongly associated with war in general. She feels outsiders can’t possibly understand war.<\/p>\n

“When people think of war people think of movies, people think of games, people think sometimes of photographs, people think sometimes of stories,” says Parker. “But in general I think they think of things which are one step removed from what war actually is. \u00a0They think maybe it brings up an image they saw in a movie, a game, a something. They don\u2019t think of it as reality.”<\/p>\n

“I think now people don\u2019t have any understanding of what war is,” continues Parker. “I really don\u2019t think the modern mind can take it in.”<\/p>\n

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Mary Louise Parker is a bestselling author and award-winning actress.\u00a0Her first book, Dear Mr. You, is a New York Times bestseller that follows the legacy of her father, a three-tour American soldier. She has been a frequent contributor to Esquire\u00a0magazine. \u00a0Her writing has appeared in O Magazine, The Riveter, Good Housekeeping, Bullet, and others. She […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":12334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[414],"tags":[499,497,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-11347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-big-think","8":"tag-mary-louise-parker","9":"tag-military","10":"tag-soldiers"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/landscape-1445282466-mary-louise-parker.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11347"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18553,"href":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11347\/revisions\/18553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}