{"id":576,"date":"2024-01-08T17:16:12","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T17:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/?p=576"},"modified":"2024-01-08T17:16:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T17:16:12","slug":"woman-told-shes-too-ugly-for-selfies-uploads-a-selfie-a-day-for-a-year-refuses-to-be-bullied-by-trolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/?p=576","title":{"rendered":"Woman told she\u2019s \u2018too ugly\u2019 for selfies uploads a selfie a day for a year, refuses to be bullied by trolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"5c53f654ecb6b2e2c397431cfdb6dd0a\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:99px 0 99px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<!-- Composite Start -->\r\n<div id=\"M926082ScriptRootC1556461\"><\/div>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/jsc.adskeeper.com\/m\/a\/makamuki.com.1556461.js\" async><\/script>\r\n<!-- Composite End -->\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Bullying is one of the most despicable aspects of modern society, I\u2019m sure we can all agree.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prejudice against someone based on something as trivial as appearance is truly abhorrent behavior, but unfortunately social media has given people a platform to be nasty to one another while benefitting from relative anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>Melissa Blake knows this only too well. A writer, she was told by online trolls that she was \u201ctoo ugly\u201d to post photos of herself.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, Melissa was hurt by the comments, which came after she wrote an article for CNN back in 2019.<\/p>\n<div id=\"newsner-21691aa9f3d221ccd65df24cdf087e89\" class=\"newsner-21691aa9f3d221ccd65df24cdf087e89 newsner-amp_article_inside_content\"><\/div>\n<p>When the article went live, a YouTuber shared a photo of her, only for hundreds of people to then attack her appearance. Melissa, who has Freeman Sheldon syndrome \u2013 a disorder characterized by abnormalities of the head and face and defects of the hands and feet \u2013 was labelled a \u2018blob fish\u2019 and a \u2018whale\u2019, amongst other things.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bullying is one of the most despicable aspects of modern society, I\u2019m sure we can all agree. Prejudice against someone based on something as trivial as appearance is truly abhorrent behavior, but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-08-181504.png","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":578,"href":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions\/578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}