16 year old signs her first pro contract and the abuse she received about her looks got that bad her club Kilmarnock have had to remove the post announcing it. Apparently all from men making horrible remarks about her having acne. The mind boggles what do these people really gain from such an action, having 3 daughters I can’t imagine what her parents must be going through let alone the lass herself. About time this sort of abuse is taken seriously and society sorts itself out but I’m not hopeful. Hopefully it doesn’t affect her too much and she goes on to enjoy her career despite these idiots.
Poor girl. She has some courage putting herself up to take a photo in the first place, its rare you see kids her age online without being caked in make up and a tonne of filters - I hate it. But there's little wonder why they feel pressured into it when they receive abuse like that. Bless her, hope she can shrug all the hate off and it doesn't knock her confidence. My sisters have all had acne, nowhere near as prominent as hers, and they all struggle dealing with, its heartbreaking to see the effect it has on them, so I can only imagine the upset the family is feeling. Hopefully she has a smashing career, gets plenty of game time and make a pissload of money doing it
Bloody evil ba**ards...social media can be the modern equivalent of the old fashioned poisoned pen letter. I remember Frankie Boyle making jokes about Rebecca Adlington's looks when she was a teenager a few years back, if I'd have been her Dad I'd have gone round to see him.
Twitter is absolutely minging. I tend to scroll on it for Barnsley news or reactions to talking points - Semenyo getting racially abused last night for example. But the whole platform is what is wrong with social media. The right hand side have a massive influence on it at the moment, doom mongering all sorts of nonsense and if it isn’t that, it’s some young naive woman flashing their tits or that idiot Geordie in Ibiza. Wish there would be a platform where Barnsley would use more than X because it’s the only news I get from the club.
I do think twitter has got a little worse in recent years, but its always been a vile place. Its not just the right either, some of the stuff I've seen from all sides are truly disgusting. I do see a lot of 'religious' people on it, usually Christian nationalists and younger Muslim men, those 2 sections are by far and away the worst from what I've seen mate. Such a shame too cos what a fantastic tool social media can be.
To think I opened this post expecting a beer recommendation, this has been a thoroughly depressing experience.
I was always brought up to believe that you should never try & take the piss out of anything that someone can’t help. Really poor from those involved
Jealousy I think. Pathetic, really Although at first I thught this was a thread about a nice bottle of ale from the rugged Cuillin Hills!
Just looked up this story. Looks like the actions of these cowardly trolls has back fired on them massively and the waves of support for her appears to be overwhelming. I met my partner when her daughters were 13 and 8 years old some 13 years ago and and they have grown up to be strong amazing young women and they have taught me so much about life and respect and had anything like that happened to them what has happened to Skye Stout I would have been devastated. Hope the lass enjoys her football and has a great career.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. This is why ID verification is so important on social media. Even if they cant be prosecuted, they will still struggle to get or keep a job with this sort of behaviour on record... Plus I expect many of them have wives and daughters of their own! This kind of abuse stops quickly if there is no anonymity.
It must be really hard for her to deal with at such a self-conscious age, even without being out there in public. But she's a very pretty girl and is obviously quite handy on the pitch as well. In a couple of years time her acne will have cleared and hopefully she'll be smashing her footy career, while the brain-dead knobs who left such horrible comments on social media will still be brain-dead knobs.
