Shaking My Head... Thursday, June 20

I posted one of the above pictures on my social media and instantly the message with it was totally disregarded and people started commenting on the girl's looks and private messaging me.

That girl is one of my fighters.

She's a fighter I've been training for a few months but she's also one badass boss babe who hustles hard running her own company and is slaying it in life.  But she's pretty, yes, it's obvious.  We all know it.  What we all apparently don't realize is how overly annoying that can be and how insulting that also can be when that's all people comment on.  

At training, she usually sports a sports bra and leggings or shorts.  She works hard for her body, it's her prerogative if she wants to show it off or not, but that doesn't give people, complete strangers, the right to judge her solely on her looks and comment about them.  Don't get me wrong, no one said anything nasty.  I mean, look at her.  She's gorgeous but that's not the point and I think it's insulting when people make it solely the point.

I somewhat lashed out at someone on my Facebook for asking me who she is.  You can read it if you're on my Facebook page.  In the picture caption, I had clearly stated she was one of my fighters and had tagged her in the actual picture.  I responded to this person's question with a smart remark, telling them that "she's a girl that could single handedly knock you out without even messing up her hair... joking but not joking."  

...it escalated from there.

People started to private message me their response to what I had written, both negatively and positively.  

Side note here, why people can't grow balls to post publically is beyond me.  Don't bother "sticking up for me" in a private message.  That's not support, that's playing is safe and staying in the shadows.  

Anyways, I guess it bothered me more than it should have but I hate when people look only at the surface and dwell on such superficial things like looks.  This particular fighter in the picture is someone who has always been incredibly supportive of not only me but also my business, Empowered.  She's always posts about me when I train her and she's always encouraging.  So to have someone totally disregard her as a person, as someone I'm very proud of and blessed to have crossed paths with, I just thought it so superficial and disrespectful.