Lynelle Cantwell was in math class at Holy Trinity High School, when she and few other students got word of a poll. The poll was totally anonymous, and online, and it was called "Ugliest Girls At HTH." The idea was that students ranked the girls by their appearance. It's just awful to think that this is something that happens at schools today.
Lynelle was one of the students, who was ranked number four. But like Hannah Combs who had bullies pour glue on her, the 12th-grader didn't let the bullies get under her skin. "It outraged me. All of these girls are hurt because of this one person who has no heart or sympathy for anything," she told CBC News. "I wanted to be the bigger person, and instead of fighting fire with fire, I decided to fight it a different way and make something that was really negative into something really positive."
In effort to stop students from judging each other, she posted this response on Facebook. Read it below…
"To the person that made the 'ugliest girls in grade 12 at hth [Holy Trinity High School]' ask.FM straw poll. I'm sorry that your life is so miserable that you have to try to bring others down."
"To the 12 people that voted for me to bring me to 4th place. I'm sorry for you, too. I'm sorry that you don't get to know me as a person. I know that I'm not the prettiest thing to look at. I know I have a double chin and I fit in XL clothes."
"I know I don't have the perfect smile or the perfect face. But i'm sorry for you. Not myself. I'm sorry that you get amusement out of making people feel like sh**. I'm sorry that you'll never get the chance to know the kind of person i am. I may not look okay on the outside.. But I'm funny, nice, kind, down to earth, not judgmental, accepting, helpful, and I'm super-easy to talk to."
"That's the same for every other girl on that list that you all put down. Just because we don't look perfect on the outside does not mean we are ugly. If that's your idea of ugly then I feel sorry for you. Like seriously? Get a life."
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