Chingsanghoih Guite/ The Hauterfly
Chingsanghoih Guite/ The Hauterfly
The thing about trolls, other than the fact that they’re nosy and lifeless, is also that it takes nothing to rile them up. Especially when you’re a woman. Easier than taking candy from a child, anything from something as simple as drinking or smoking or wearing a cut-sleeves top or a short-length skirt, can offend them to the point that they start feeling like it is their moral duty to criticize us. Much like in the case of an Australian Olympic snowboard icon Torah Bright who was slammed by trolls for her recent post.
Mother to a beautiful son, Flow, Torah had posted a bunch of pictures on her social media on account of Mothers day, embracing herself in the role of a mother and everything that comes with it. Breastfeeding, for instance. With one of the pictures showing Torah shirtless in an impressive head-stand where her son could be seen breastfeeding from her upside-down mom, it was here that the trolls lost their calm.
Once again bringing down a process as natural as breastfeeding by calling it “obscene”, “pathetic” and implying that was done by Torah only to “crave attention”, the post grabbed a lot of hate from trolls who could clearly not understand the emotion behind it.
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The caption of the post read, “Becoming a mother has unleashed something inside of me. It’s deeply spiritual. It’s primal. It’s raw. It’s fierce. It is pure. I am mother. My prayer for all mothers, now and in the future is that they be heard. Honoured. Respected and encouraged to trust their intuition.”
A user wrote, “A photo of the breastfeeding would be better private of were you seeking attention?” while another one went ahead to write, “Well done on getting the attention you clearly crave… sad and pathetic.”
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