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April 24, 2015 | celebrity | Lex Jurgen | 0 Comments
Online fitness instructor and personal trainer Cassey Ho felt a need to respond to the one-tenth of one percent of her YouTube viewers who write her nasty notes about her body not being perfect enough for their high standards. Stephen Hawking could go online with a groundbreaking theory on the universe and some greater percentage of trolls would call him Retardo on Wheels. Ho made a video where she virtually Photoshops her real self into a dysmorphic objectified female to please ToddTheAnimals198 who keeps telling her she’s fat.
In this video, you will experience what it feels like to be constantly bombarded with outrageous negativity. You will see what it looks like to have your self-esteem stripped away. You will read real comments left by real people. You will see me struggle with my own appearance.
That certainly sounds like a compelling promo. When you’re clearly not fat and you power through two thousand crunches a day you could choose to ignore Todd or you could let him consume your every waking hour and sense of self-worth. Based on the maudlin music in the video, I’m going to assume Ho chose the latter. Perhaps the answer to empowering women about their bodies is to convince them to ignore the some small percentage of anonymous screen names that thrill themselves by writing mean shit in between hits from their CPAPs. I clearly remember my grade school P.E. teacher telling me sticks and stones will break your bones but names will never hurt you. And that was after some big ass kid had hit me with a stick. Times have changed. Victimhood is the brass ring. You have two million subscribers on YouTube and you’re getting paid to do squats and sell protein shakes. Let it go. You’re never going to solve inbred chauvinism in your underwear.