Shame On Those That Body Shame

"Ugly", "thin as a stick", "fat as a basketball", "you look old", these are four of about a billion hurtful comments that I have heard people say without a care in the world. People that say it may not care, but people that hear it do. When you insult someone based on their body type, you completely destroy their self-esteem and ruin their day. You can't call someone unattractive and say "take a joke". Body shaming is not a joke, it is serious. Body shaming kills hundreds everyday. Body shaming makes people feel bad about themselves. Body shaming makes people cut their wrists. Body shaming makes people suicidal. Is it still a joke to you?

People tend to think that it is body shaming when you call someone a hippo, but not body shaming when you call someone a twig. Let's make something clear, body shaming does not discriminate. When you call someone thin or fat regardless, you are poking their insecurities and turning their present into not that much of a gift anymore. It is not cool to comment something about someone else's body when nobody is perfect. You do not have a right to judge someone's appearance when you yourself wouldn't like to be judged for the same. Everyone has doubts about themselves and they don't want to be reminded of them. Do not ever use body shaming as a way to cope with your insecurities. Bullying will not make you accept yourself, it will just make other people hate themselves more. A degrading remark will make that girl or boy spend hours thinking about it and looking at themselves in the mirror. Some people might be bullied and shamed constantly and may turn to things like expensive and risky plastic surgery, life-threatening suicidal thoughts or harmful and unhealthy diets and extreme workouts or starvation.

The next time you lift your finger to type "baby elephant" on someone's post, even though it's supposedly a "joke" to you, others are not interested in listening to you clowning about at your forced circus. You are not being "dope" or "savage" by bullying someone. The people that stand up to bullies are savage, not the people that bully. Imagine yourself in the shoes of the person you may shame, it might enlighten you. Body shaming is not okay even under peer pressure. Break the chain of hate your friends may be asking you to join, that is what makes you really dope. Support those that are tolerating comments related to their body and help them to take a stand. Karma is real and if you shame today, you get shamed tomorrow. Remember, when you body shame, it actually tells a lot about how shameful you are.