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The quirky New Girl actress told the magazine that she isn’t as outgoing as the hilarious Jess, saying: “I get very overwhelmed by crowds, especially of strangers.”
She is also sick of the negativity on the internet saying people ‘in this day and age want to dismiss things.’
“They say, ‘You don’t belong, you don’t deserve this because here’s why, and let me find an intellectual argument for why you wearing pink or cuff sleeves or a bow makes you not worthy of your accomplishments.
“Everything you’ve done doesn’t matter because you wore the wrong thing or you speak in a way that’s feminine or you identify yourself as feminine.’”
It’s just attacking who I am. A lot of times it doesn’t have to do with what I get paid to do,” she continues. “It has to do with, ‘Oh, you stupid person.’ Even I get slammed and overwhelmed by how negative the Internet can get, and I’m an adult.”
The actress adds, “I don’t pay any mind to it, but it’s pretty shocking how when you give people anonymity – it’s like the worst of human nature.”
But Zooey isn’t taking it lying down and has helped create the site HelloGiggles, a positive online community for women to inspire smiles.
“I just felt it’s important to teach young girls to be strong people, to not think, I can’t do this because I’m worried about what people will say,” she explains.
“There are worse consequences, but online negativity stops people from being creative, part of which is having bad ideas as well as good ideas.”
We completely agree with you Zooey, and we think you’re pretty amazing!
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Here are some of our favourite Zooey moments to help spread the smiles.
She is also sick of the negativity on the internet saying people ‘in this day and age want to dismiss things.’
“They say, ‘You don’t belong, you don’t deserve this because here’s why, and let me find an intellectual argument for why you wearing pink or cuff sleeves or a bow makes you not worthy of your accomplishments.
“Everything you’ve done doesn’t matter because you wore the wrong thing or you speak in a way that’s feminine or you identify yourself as feminine.’”
It’s just attacking who I am. A lot of times it doesn’t have to do with what I get paid to do,” she continues. “It has to do with, ‘Oh, you stupid person.’ Even I get slammed and overwhelmed by how negative the Internet can get, and I’m an adult.”
The actress adds, “I don’t pay any mind to it, but it’s pretty shocking how when you give people anonymity – it’s like the worst of human nature.”
But Zooey isn’t taking it lying down and has helped create the site HelloGiggles, a positive online community for women to inspire smiles.
“I just felt it’s important to teach young girls to be strong people, to not think, I can’t do this because I’m worried about what people will say,” she explains.
“There are worse consequences, but online negativity stops people from being creative, part of which is having bad ideas as well as good ideas.”
We completely agree with you Zooey, and we think you’re pretty amazing!
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Here are some of our favourite Zooey moments to help spread the smiles.
