{"id":266,"date":"2016-06-13T21:10:52","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T21:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeofcosplay.com\/?p=266"},"modified":"2016-06-13T21:10:52","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T21:10:52","slug":"this-is-not-o-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeofcosplay.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/13\/this-is-not-o-k\/","title":{"rendered":"This is not O.K."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To the stranger on Instagram who thinks it\u2019s okay to talk to women like they\u2019re a piece of meat: Stop it.<\/p>\n<p>I am in no way asking for your sexual attention. The amount of skin that is showing in this picture? Most of my facial epidermis and a scandalous peep of forearm.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lifeofcosplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/InvisibleHug-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-270\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeofcosplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/InvisibleHug-1-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"InvisibleHug\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeofcosplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/InvisibleHug-1-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/lifeofcosplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/InvisibleHug-1.jpg 631w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You see that kid? I\u2019m sharing part of my hobby that makes me the happiest: <strong>making children smile.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And you had to get on the internet and ruin an innocent picture with your stupid words.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You, sir, are the reason why I learned to slouch so that nobody\u2019s eyes wandered to certain places.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s men like you who taught a 13-year-old me that my body is sexually appealing when a middle-aged truck driver honked at my friend and I as we were walking home from school. If I didn\u2019t stop wearing shorts, I would still get those stupid honks.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s men like you who ruined my Valentine\u2019s Day date when I traumatically learned that wearing heels and a dress above the knees means you\u2019re available for prostitution proposals. I was 21, on my first date ever, and didn\u2019t know anything about fashion. I never made that mistake again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am also not your:<\/p>\n<p>Sweetheart, sweetie, dear, baby, or dog (so stop whistling at me like I am one).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t ask for your \u201ccompliment\u201d, but I will ask for something from you: STOP. I don\u2019t want your twisted idea of attention.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the stranger on Instagram who thinks it\u2019s okay to talk to women like they\u2019re a piece of meat: Stop it. I am in no way asking for your sexual attention. The amount of skin that is showing in this picture? Most of my facial epidermis and a scandalous peep of forearm. &nbsp; You see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[65,4,68,67,16,70,71,72,73,66,52,69],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lifeofcosplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ThisJerk.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75NCP-4i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeofcosplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeofcosplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeofcosplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeofcosplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeofcosplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/lifeofcosplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"https:\/\/lifeofcosplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeofcosplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeofcosplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeofcosplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeofcosplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}