Girlfriend's Heartwarming Response To Hateful Comments About Boyfriend Goes Viral

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Jonathan Constante - Opposing Views


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A Georgia couple defended their love after a photo of them at a wedding was met with hateful comments on Reddit.

Ashley Stevens and her boyfriend Christopher Reed have been together for two and a half years. They recently attended a friend’s wedding and Stevens caught the bouquet. They decided to post a silly picture online with a caption that read: “She caught the bouquet… And I’m in trouble.”

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The humor was lost on some folks after the photo was posted on Reddit. More than 2,600 people commented on the picture, with some users criticizing Reed for his size.

“That fatty should be jumping up and down that this girl is even with him let alone him possibly getting that much closer to marrying her,” wrote one user.

Other users took it a step further, asking if Reed had Down syndrome.

Stevens took to Facebook to respond to the hateful comments about her boyfriend and her post is now going viral.

"If you have seen the comments on our photo that went viral, they are pretty shallow and rude," Stevens wrote. "I would advise you not to look at them."

She continued:


“It surprises me how many people are so quick to judge when they don't even know you. Well let me just tell you, I won the jackpot with Christopher.

"He may not have rock hard abs like the world tells girls to want in a guy, but really, why does that even matter when you are trying to really find someone to spend the rest of your life with? He is so thoughtful and patient, he always shows me how he loves me in little ways, he is my best friend. I love him for who he is and he loves me for who I am. Understanding, loving, and hilarious, which is so rare to find these days!!

"Since I was young, (like many other little girls) I dreamed about who I would end up with, once I gave my life to Christ and saw examples of Godly marriages and relationships, I wanted that. God saw the desires of my heart and blessed me with Christopher.

"He brings me closer to God through prayer, and his love. I know God will use us both for awesome things because we make a great team! So as of us and those rude comments, we know the truth and we will block out the haters. Enjoy our picture though. Lol"

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Speaking with ABC News, Reed took the high road when asked about the comments.

“Honestly, I’ve always been a big guy the majority of my life and so of course I had the comments and the cruel jokes growing up, so I kind of got used to it,” he said. “I know who I am and I really don’t care what people have to say about me because I’m confident.

“It’s trolls sitting behind their computers. They don’t know us and they can’t talk about us, so honestly it just didn’t bother me.”

Reed also took to Facebook to thank his family and friends for their support since the picture went viral.

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"I couldn't be more thankful for the support and love from our family and friends,” Reed wrote. “We're here because of you and we wouldn't trade you for the world. We love y'all."

[RBP]

There are a lot of days that I miss being unplugged. If we really look at the totality of social media, can we honestly say it's produced more good than harm?

[deebakes]

no

[perrhaps]

It's also decimated the art of skillful conversation.

[Hal-9000]

There are a lot of days that I miss being unplugged. If we really look at the totality of social media, can we honestly say it's produced more good than harm?

I agree with this and have been trying to move away from it bit by bit....

I have a weird offhand example.I love the show Survivor. I've watched all 30 seasons of it and some seasons more than once. I recently joined a huge online group through Facebook for Survivor fans. The group has over 5000 members and is closed, you have to request and then get accepted.

I posted my ass off and got in shit for it. They had threads for every season, every thought about instances on the show. I showed some exuberance for one of the contestants as sometimes the actual Survivor players will use their verified account to post in the group. It was her birthday, they made a thread and I couldn't believe that ____ from Survivor Guatemala was actually chatting in the thread. I made no creepy posts and posted a ton of funny (clean) pics. Then I noticed that my new 'friends' were starting to put me down in one sentence posts...really ignorant stuff like kill yourself, leave now and wtf is this guy doing? Then one of the mods creates a huge wall of text post admonishing me, saying that I was making things 'hilariously uncomfortable" and that I should "leave the fantarding for other groups".

I wrote two posts and then quit the group. One was a post giving the mods shit (one of the mods is hugely popular in the Survivor world, wrote books, met contestants etc..) saying that maybe if there's protocol, they could pm the users and tell them beforehand, rather than let a thread reach 100 posts (I stroked that bitch and encouraged others to post...because, hell I was being funny :lol:) and then scold a user in front of the contestant in question and the other users.

Second post I left was a screenshot of the Facebook feed that describes the likes that certain posts get....this girl (and her twin sister) liked over 29 of my posts in that thread.....

Moral of the story - The three places I would visit kinda ruined the Fourth Wall for me. All of the talk of the behind the scenes stuff, the producers actions, the players that did something over 10 years ago...I realized that being a superfan makes you jaded and doesn't help you enjoy the show. So I walked away from the discussions and now enjoy my rewatches of the seasons much more :thumbsup:



*that was a long post to make a small point about social media ruining something good :lol: :doh:

[Hal-9000]

With the exception of this place (a forum), I believe that social media has become too harmful and influential in our lives. We reach for our phones or pc's rather than communicating with others.

There's so much wrong with that, starting with the ol - it's easy to be brave behind a keyboard. We've become too accustomed to letting our opinions fly without a thought and now we feel entitled to do so...

In my humble opinion this brave new world we live in contains some good things, some very good things actually. But simultaneously it seems that we're traveling down a dark road without realizing it.

[RBP]

The whole Reddit thing is another good example.

[Hal-9000]

The ones that make me really sad are the online bullying stories and suicides.

In my FB example above I felt on top of the world for about three days, making people laugh and getting likes for my posts by the bucket load....then all of a sudden I was the brunt of a very public and a very vocal shaming :lol: And on Facebook it's your real name up there...no alternate mystery fake identity.

There were long time members that piled on (to the hate against me)...and one guy who asked me to be his Facebook friend because he thought the action against me was wrong and he was tired of seeing new members go through it...that was nice. It still made me quit the group after some well worded and what I know were totally uncomfortable posts against the management there :lol:

[Hal-9000]

and something that scared me....PCS could probably speak about this....a few years back I joined Google +. As I set things up I realized that my online Youtube identity, my Facebook identity, Google + and my email addresses were all mysteriously connected :-k

Even when my g/f sent me a few emails from her phone, depending on what identity I was using in Google...that seemed to influence the to and from name in the notes.

Better said - I created a Google + user name and then wanted to change it. They made it seem like I wanted to kill someone, saying that I could only change my username once and they made it very difficult to do so on a whim. That's when I noticed my own name change on the notes my g/f was sending me through email.


There's a huge secret connectivity between the BIG 3 (facebook, google, youtube) and things like 'likes' are an insidious categorization method the people behind the scenes use to gather profiles on us.

I have my browser set to never remember history and to dump cookies etc, when exiting. Yet I go to the main Youtube page and see 'suggestions' for vids similar to ones I have watched two years ago??

[thebastardnextdoor]

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I have to be honest...the title and this picture did not compute....I saw this picture and thought you fucking bitch taking the piss out of that guy in yet another fucking selfie..so happy to read how wrong I was, in fact he is responding to his GF catching the bouquet, which is brilliant...

...and now to be typically Aussie blokey about it, that man is punching above his weight and needs to be admired from one and all!

[thebastardnextdoor]

This google thing kept asking me do I want friends to share my stuff and I am thinking hell no! Forget the granny porn and the extreme butt plug discounts...Can you possibly imagine the actual embarrassment and social exile one would receive if friends and family knew i came here..oh the shame...

:villagers: