Gabby Douglas Teared Up In Interview, Cried In Hallway Due To Social Media Bullying

[Koltrain]

Get a backbone bitch you 20 years old AND competed in the damn olympics which im sure was MUCH harder than reading some mean tweets stupid

You sound like a mean girl

 

[T. Sanford]

Not to sound pro black or anything but simmer down on the b*tch word. No need to degrade her

 

[Plutarch]

Yeah, the asshole part of me wants to say "oh c'mon, grow some tits." Seems that some people aren't built for the harsh realities of life.

 

[leftcoastkev]

I like Gabby and wish her continued success. At that level you're bound to have a ton of haters which can be a mind fuck to someone who requires supreme focus and is performing on the world stage. I hope her parents have her gamed up.

 

[b'mer...]

With ur gma

 

[konceptjones]

Get. The. Fuck. Off. Twitter. And. Facebook! If you can't handle it, why are you on there? I think cyber bullying is way easier to get over than regular in your face bullying. There used to br a time when it was hard to get access to athletes, etc. If you let trolls get to you then you already lost. These are people who don't even use their real fucking names or pictures but they want to bully people. People think it's hard but it's not.

^^^

There's no point in allowing one-on-one direct access to someone that ain't your family or a friend. That's the mistake all these celebs make. When you open up access to yourself on that level you also give access to people that are going to troll you.

You can't leave the front door to your crib unlocked and wide open and get mad 'cause you got robbed.

 

[twizza 77]

I don't get why black women want to clown her about her hair. She's competing in a athletic competition, she's not competing to be the 'Next top IG Model.' Especially, coming from some black women who are probably out of shape and haven't done shit athletically.

 

[desertrain10]

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Man them talking shit bout her hair last time and now was fucked up

I do think it's funny how black women are always whining about how the media and society treats them, but then when Gabby and now Simone get some shine, it's black women that were attacking them for something so silly. If a white person had said something then all the black feminists would have been screaming bloody murder, but no one acknowledges that white people probably wouldn't even have a concept of what is a "good" or "bad" black look if black women weren't always in public bashing other black women for that.

ignorant comment

gabby was attacked by other blk women and some blk men because they had an issue with the way her hair was styled

the concept of 'good' and bad' hair is used by the blk community metaphorically to characterize beauty and acceptance

traditional European features being the standard of beauty

and in america blk women with softer, more subdued curl patterns have historically been given partial treatment over women who have kinky hair

the attacks in regards to gabby's hair was largely the result of internalized white supremacy, colorism... same as some of the critiques thrown at steph curry and drake

that said, I doubt most self aware blk women who speak on the intersectionality of race and sex in this country are the same one's who are attacking gabby

You are all the way off the mark here.

1) I didn't say anything about good or bad hair. I said good or bad look as in style. Your average white person has no idea what we consider good or bad in that regard so they wouldn't criticize a black person in that way.

2) What does any of this have to do with white supremacy or colorism? Y'all just like to randomly throw out buzzwords. You yourself just said the criticisms weren't really about how much her hair did or didn't look like white people's hair. Y'all will say anything to deflect blame away from black women. Women do catty shit like this all the time. You can go in any club any day of the week and you'll find chicks hating on other chicks the same way. It's like you think all bad behavior displayed by black people are white people's fault. That's not true. There is no shortage of blacks behaving badly all on their own.

3) Nowhere did I imply "conscious" black women were the ones bashing Gabby. My point is y'all are so quick to blame whites or black men for the mistreatment of black women, but when black women are treating each other badly, y'all are silent. Or you do what you just did, reach to find someone else to blame. It's white people's fault that black women are beating up on a black girl over the style of her hair? FOH And if you really believe that, why don't you afford the same defense to black men? We're victims of white supremacy too, but when we do wrong by y'all, it's cause we're shitty and no good.

lol

when it comes to our hair and the way we style it, white ppl have some of the most foul, stereotypical shit to say....

that said, she wears her hair like a lot of the other gymnasts, as in pretty "low maintenance" styles....but because she is blk she is held to a different standard

it may seem like these standards are self imposed but they didn't materialize out of thin air....again they are rooted in white supremacy

and blk women don't hold a monopoly on hypocrisy ....its human nature...

and this idea that we don't afford the same defense to black men is poppycock and unsubstantiated...while i can speak only for myself, i see what growing up in america can breed self contempt in a blk man, same as with women. it is something we have to recognize with ourselves and overcome. and its not as if anyone was excusing the actions of her attackers, i was only providing context

regardless, the internet trolls are a small fraction of the otherwise positive commentary and support gabby has received from both blk men and women....she is a source of pride

her haters can kick rocks regardless of color