Gina Rodriguez Schools Bullies On Social Media Hate, Is A Queen
Gina Rodriguez, star of "Jane the Virgin" and all around gorgeous and talented gal, took some unwarranted heat this week after posting her People en Espa?ol cover on Instagram.
Apparently, some of her 327,000 followers and/or general Instagram peepers did not like Rodriguez's smiling image and chose to respond with hateful comments.
But Gina Rodriguez is not one to take bullying in silence.
The 31-year-old posted another photo from her People shoot, this time addressing the negative and spiteful comments she had received, wondering -- rightfully so -- "When did we decide social media was for hating, for putting others down rather than lifting them up."
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"I refuse to participate in that kind of world," Rodriguez wrote. "Before you write a comment today on anyone's picture or anyone's page ask yourself would you want others to say that about yourself? What am I getting out of being mean to another person I have never met?"
The Golden Globe winner has been vocal in the past about issues she believes in, among them the importance of diversity and body confidence.
"We live in an industry where the desire to be something that you're not sells," she told HuffPost Live in April. "But why can't we make the desire to be what you are sell? Why can't we make that profitable?"
In May, the actress participated in The Hollywood Reporter's comedy actress roundtable and spoke about the lack of roles for actresses of color.
"I remove myself instantly if something's perpetuating a stereotype," Rodriguez said. "But the only way to stop stereotypes is to say, 'I'm going to wait for a journey that suits me.' When you compromise, you don't do your best work. You're only left with your integrity."
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![The Golden-Globe winner <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/21/gina-rodriguez-body-image_n_7104118.html" target="_blank">told HuffPost Live</a> how her father shaped her perspective on beauty: <blockquote>Beauty was very much on my mind. I had a father that would -- we would look up at billboards and he would say, "That's one version of beauty. You're another version of beauty. And she's a version of beauty. And that girl? She's another version of beauty." He always said that beauty came from within, and as much as you're younger and you're [sarcastically] like, "Yeah, beauty comes from within" -- no, beauty does come from within. I've met some of the most beautiful people, and sadly their heart is just not smiling, and that destroys it all. And then other people that aesthetically aren't considered as beautiful are the most gorgeous people I've ever seen in my life.</blockquote>](https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/dVgCAxrirAqxJQfEPEkW.g--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTU0MA--/https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/55a6713b1200002b00134b2f.jpg)
Beauty was very much on my mind. I had a father that would -- we would look up at billboards and he would say, "That's one version of beauty. You're another version of beauty. And she's a version of beauty. And that girl? She's another version of beauty." He always said that beauty came from within, and as much as you're younger and you're [sarcastically] like, "Yeah, beauty comes from within" -- no, beauty does come from within. I've met some of the most beautiful people, and sadly their heart is just not smiling, and that destroys it all. And then other people that aesthetically aren't considered as beautiful are the most gorgeous people I've ever seen in my life.
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I grew up hard and am still hard and I don't care. I did not choose this face or this body and I have learned to live with it and love it and celebrate it and adorn it with tremendous drawings from the greatest artists in the world and I feel good and powerful like a nation that has never been free and now after many hard won victories is finally fucking free. I am beautiful and I am finally fucking free.
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