I'm sure at this point everyone has heard about Meryl Streep's "acceptance" speech at the Golden Globe Awards. If not, allow me to fill you in (I assure you that if you want a video, all you need to do is type "Meryl Streep" into Google. It's everywhere).

September 8, 2017 was the day that was chosen to host the 74th annual Golden Globe Awards. However, some celebrities decided that they would take the opportunity for their acceptance speeches and make it political instead. The most notable of these was Meryl Streep. Streep took the time allotted for her acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille Award to bash our president-elect, Donald J. Trump. She said

"There was one performance this year that stunned me. It sank its hooks in my heart. Not because it was good, there was nothing good about it, but it was effective and it did its job. It was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter. Someone he outranked in privilege, power and the capacity to fight back...Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners and if we kick them all out, you'll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts...It kind of broke my heart when I saw it and I still can't get it out of my head because it wasn't in a movie, it was real life...This instinct to humiliate when it's modeled by someone in the public ... by someone powerful, it filters down into everyone's life because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same...When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose."

I agree with one and a half parts of her speech. The one part would be when she said that football and mixed martial arts are not the arts. She's right: they're sports. The half part would be that someone in a position of power should not mock people. Remember the word change as I pick apart her speech.

First, "imitated a disabled reporter". Okay, this is a controversial viewpoint, but please hear me out as I have been hearing out everyone who says the opposite of me. This was not something that was specific to this reporter. Donald Trump did not decide to make this hand motion and use this voice when referring to the reporter specifically because it was the reporter. There is video evidence of Trump using this same hand motion and voice when mocking Ted Cruz, banking regulators, one of Obama's Generals, and even himself. He was not making fun of the reporter's disability.

However, I am not defending the fact that he mocked anybody. What I am defending is the fact that he did not mock somebody based on their disability or his position of power. Instead, he just did what he does when he is mocking someone. I know for a fact that there are plenty of people who do similar things, especially with their voices, when mocking someone. That being said, I do not believe that someone in such a public eye should be mocking people. Be it their opponents, someone they disagree with, or someone who was nasty to them. A person in the public eye should not mock people, as it is just uncouth.

In an effort not to bore you, I will attempt to speed up my explanations for the rest of Meryl Streep's speech.

Streep is quoted as saying that "Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners...kick them out...nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts". I have two quick points about this statement. First, is it somehow not offensive to those in Hollywood that are not outsiders? I am aware that she is part of this group, but she is essentially saying that they don't exist! And second, I feel like I'm beating a dead horse saying this, but Donald Trump does not want to kick out every foreigner! He wants to kick out illegal criminals first, and then people who are here illegally in general. This should not include a single person that she is referring to.

This last part I will word as a letter to Meryl Streep herself.

Meryl Streep,

I understand that you are frustrated with the outcome of the election, but I must ask that you consider what you have said. There are false accusations galore in your speech, and you are using your time for an acceptance speech to bash our future president. I do not care that you spoke your mind--our Constitution allows you to do that, and I will be forever thankful that we have that right. However, this time was set aside for you to speak about your accomplishments, and you instead used it to belittle the man who was elected to be our president. Next time, use the time for what it's meant for, and make a separate statement later on.

Thank you.