[anchalee]

Hudson, I wasn't planning on responding to you but I think you could use some honest advice.

I'm sorry for whatever you had to go through in your life to develop such an inflated and hostile perspective, but I think you're completely missing the point here. As for my previous comment -- there's nothing like sexism right at home.

This concept might blow your mind, but if you really knew me as a person you'd understand how FAR from shallow I am. I'm an introvert, I have a small handful of amazing friends and I see them for the human consciousness that I allocate my time to; it has very little to do with physical presence. You could be the most conventionally physically attractive person on the planet but I will not want to waste even a minute in your presence if you don't have a good heart. Physical appearances are relatively ephemeral, people who put too much value on looks are setting themselves up for extreme amounts of disappointment in life.

A wise man once said "There is more to life than being really really ridiculously good looking... and I'm going to find out what that is."

[NY_hudson]

Sorry if I came off as sounding hostile. I'm sure having the experience of so much attention due to a media campaign is a bit disquieting. I think, when you start bring gender issues into it, you open yourself up for a backlash.

Reading through the non-gender issue parts of the post, you sound like a very nice and hardworking person. So I apologize for my knee-jerk reaction to what I saw as typical male bashing and let's drop the issue ;-)

[hvs]

I think, if you think bringing gender issues into it, means that you have to be a part of that backlash, you need to reassess why you feel that way.

[cpncrunch]

Also, anchalee didn't actually bring up the gender issues in the first place. That was started by some idiotic dudes on facebook (which is the whole point of her medium post).