{"id":4058,"date":"2013-12-07T01:41:40","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T07:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/?p=4058"},"modified":"2013-12-07T01:42:59","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T07:42:59","slug":"why-are-some-people-mean-to-fighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/2013\/12\/07\/why-are-some-people-mean-to-fighters\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are some people mean to fighters?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, I guess I\u2019m new to the \u2018mainstream fame\u2019 thing, having just fought in the UFC for the first time. I\u2019m used to all my fans being supportive and encouraging. So when I went on the UG forums and saw people saying I was the worst ever and should retire, I was shocked. Of course, tons of people were very nice and supportive.<\/p>\n

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. That\u2019s my favorite saying. I only took it personally at first, because I want my fans to enjoy my fighting. Some people didn\u2019t. But many people said the complete opposite, and that I was great and greatly improved. Just like people are like, \u201cI adore Ronda!\u201d and the next thread is \u201cRonda is a *****!\u201d <\/p>\n

Okay, okay, so I refocused to my own satisfaction about my fight, and I\u2019m happy about it. I have a plan to become even better, so I have hope. I\u2019m excited to get back in the gym. Yes, my striking is awkward\u2026. And that\u2019s fine. \ud83d\ude1b You guys don\u2019t wanna see cookie cutter fights anyway, right? That\u2019s boring. And I\u2019m making it work. So when I KO my next opponent with a strike nobody saw coming, you guys\u2019ll be like, \u201cOooh she\u2019s so ninja!\u201d
\nSo it\u2019s okay what the forums say. ^_^ <\/p>\n

So that being said\u2026. Now I\u2019m just trying to figure out humanity. Talking about someone to someone else is like\u2026whatever. But saying things to someone\u2019s face is\u2026mean. Right? I mean, I believe humans are inherently good. Why would you say something with the purpose of hurting someone\u2019s feelings? I\u2019m talking about tagging fighters on Twitter. Like THIS one:<\/p>\n

\"mean<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m gonna ignore these from now on, but I have to say something first.<\/p>\n

I’m saying, it’s OKAY to say your opinion. But why are you tagging me? Why tag Tara, too? So we notice the tweet and feel crappy about ourselves? And Julie JUST FOUGHT a hard fight like 10 minutes ago! So you WANT to hurt our feelings? *cocks heads* Why would you WANT to hurt our feelings? This one’s not even SO horrible, but this person tags us all.<\/p>\n

I just can\u2019t understand it. I’m so puzzled.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like\u2026something you learn in kindergarten. (I taught kindergarten btw) Wouldn\u2019t you feel sad if I were mean to YOU? What if someone has a serious depression problem, and because they lost, they couldn\u2019t feed their family, so they jumped off a bridge and DIED? Would you feel good about yourself then? What if I went into my room and cried all night? Does that make you feel good? I mean, on the night of someone\u2019s fight, after they just fought hard under a lot of pressure. Who knows if they were sick, or injured, or perfectly fine, or whatever. I\u2019m more pissed off about this one tweet than stuff said about me on the UG. People were just saying opinions there. Tagging us was just malicious. >_<\n\nSome people tell me to just say off the internet and I\u2019m \u2018empowering\u2019 the \u2018trolls\u2019 and mean people who want to bring us down. But WHY do they want to bring us down? That\u2019s my question. Maybe I\u2019m just a na\u00efve girl living in a Disney world. \n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, I guess I\u2019m new to the \u2018mainstream fame\u2019 thing, having just fought in the UFC for the first time. I\u2019m used to all my fans being supportive and encouraging. So when I went on the UG forums and saw people saying I was the worst ever and should retire, I was shocked. Of course,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fight","category-7","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}