Now, Anne Hathaway has come to her defense with this Facebook post addressing the internet:
In case you can't see the image, it says:
Dear the Internet, It's become pretty clear that the Jennifer Lawrence "scolding" was taken out of context and that she was dryly joking with a journalist who was indeed using his phone to take photos of her. Let's not continue the sad but common practice of building people - especially women- up just to viciously tear them down when we perceive them to have misstepped. Jennifer is a beautiful, talented, wildly successful, popular, FOUR TIME OSCAR NOMINATED young woman. Please let us not punish her for these things. Sincerely, A J-Law fan #supportstrongwomen #imwithher #whycantwegiveloveonemorechance
In fairness to all sides of the argument, the letter does come from a self-identifying J-Law fan.
No matter what side you ARE on, I think we can all at least agree with this one hashtag Anne used: