Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve

by Drew Afualo

An awful man made a violently bigoted video about me, spurring on the never-ending song of involuntarily celibate men calling me unoriginal names like “fat” and “ugly.” Among these Neanderthals crowding the comments was a random woman, one who did not follow me and wanted all of these men to know it. She wrote a comment criticizing my looks and insinuating I was ugly without the help of filters, because there’s “no way she looks like that in real life.” The creator of this hateful video didn’t acknowledge her comment, but he did respond to another one. A random man had responded to her commentary by saying, “You have a filter on your profile picture. So I would shut the fuck up if I were you.” That comment was loved by the creator of the video. This woman that I had never met or interacted with engaged with vitriol targeted at me, and still got hit. Why? Because at the end of the day … she’s a “bitch,” just like me.