I just watched history being made today as 16-year-old Gabrielle
“Gabby” Douglas led the US women’s gymnastics team to its 1st gold
medal since 1996.
This was truly a cause to celebrate, but I also heard some
disturbing news. Instead of a much-deserved celebration, Gabby has been in
the middle of a firestorm of cruel and unjust criticism on Twitter. About her hair of all
things!
Apparently here's the story
Gabby Douglas’s hair
has been the topic of a ton of e-chatter for the past few days. After the
16-year-old Olympian sported a gelled-down ponytail – much like the ‘do’s of
her fellow gymnasts – black Twitter lit up with comments from both men and
women, complaining that her hair looked unkempt
I am deeply saddened by these comments and this
kind of cruel and unjust criticism has got to stop. Gabby is a child and she’s an athlete.
Her hair isn’t going to look like she just stepped out of a salon. And frankly even if it did, these same narrow minded people would probably be talking about that
too!
Congratulations to Gabby for her phenomenal
accomplishment. I hope she won’t let any of the “haters” get her down.
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