The fact that you bothered to respond and defend yourself already speaks mountains.

Let me explain:

I know you're new to the platform (this is why I bothered telling you why I flagged you), but we have a serious problem here. And it's precisely what you're doing: using attractive pictures of women as profile pics in order to attain followers and get away with spammy comments.

Now, that might not be the case with you... but the fact remains that you're using a picture of someone that isn't yours and that's a form of deception. I understand if you've had negative experiences on the web as a female and don't want to post your pic... but as i said, why is it that you can't use a symbol, cartoon, drawing... anything but someone else's photo? Just think of how you would feel if someone used your photo without your knowledge (let alone permission) - especially on a platform on which it's possible to gain a profit? That may not be your intention, but that's the effect that you're having.

We do verification here because we want to discourage this sort of abuse of other people's identities.

And hey, I'm really sorry that stuff happened to you. But yeah, it's a little hard to trust people online, and I do sort of want some form of verification. If you're not comfortable with that, that's cool: I kindly ask that you change the photo or get a photo that you have permission to use (I still don't love the idea if it's someone else's picture, but I suppose it's no big deal if they're okay with it).

As for your comments, I do hope you'll continue to leave them. Be well. I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and remove the flag. :)