Riley Gaines

I don't want to ruffle feathers.

I don't want to step on toes.

I don't want to be disrespectful.

So it's hard for me to read a lot of what was being said about me online.

But I realized pretty quickly, honestly, that the hate and the attacks that I were getting were kind of, they kind of fell into three categories, one of three.

One, it was calling me some sort of phobia or ism.

And like I said, those words lost their meaning pretty quickly to me.

Two, it was some sort of personal attack, like you're ugly or like your hair extensions look bad.

And I'm like, this is my real hair.

Thank you?

Question mark.

Or something to the effect of maybe you should have just trained harder, which is Keith Olbermann.

Hilarious.

That's someone eating Cheetos.

Exactly.

And once you realize once you realize there's no substance to anything these people are saying, really.

And understanding the profiles, because, again, all of this is pretty much done through social media.

I will tell you, other than protesters I've had like at protests.

campuses or events or something like I have never once had someone in my day-to-day life come up to me and say something negative but I've had thousands say something positive so again most of this is done through social media what I've noticed about the profiles it's coming from they don't have a profile picture a lot of time they're scared to put their own face and name to it

Two, they are someone who you can tell has never played a sport in their entire life and who has no grasp of the importance of playing sports and honestly the importance of winning and succeeding in your sport.