It’s Enough Now; Say no to Body-shaming

Body-shaming is an act of humiliating someone’s body, shape, size, color, height. It is a form of bullying. Judging someone’s physical appearance is an act of shame. Most people have to go through this if they are too fat or too thin or if they don’t fit in society’s view of ”smart and beautiful”. We are living in society where every other person is interested in each others matters. It is very important that how these so called people destroying self confidence of an individual. I think we have to talk on this matter, . Body-shaming is very common these days like, group of friends always mock that friend one who is healthy, and also mock the one who is skinny. It has become part of our lives whether it be in person or online. We always find opportunity to humiliate that one who is black, short, fat, or skinny. Those people have no idea how it is destroying mental health of the person. They have no idea how they are destroying the confidence of the person by saying such things. It can lead to depression, stress and other mental problems.

Nobody is perfect in this world everyone has imperfections, but why are we always pointing out the imperfections. We are living in society in which on every occasion we have to listen statements like; why don’t you eat enough, you are too skinny? and on the other hand these same people say; you have gained so much weight. Like what you want? It has become habit of mocking an individual in the gathering. We all are facing this at one point or another. Social media sites and advertisement have set the mindset that being fat is the worst thing. People always tries too encourage fat people to workout, eat less by criticizing their appearance. And it doesn’t end here body-shaming can be done in many different ways. For example, stopping someone from wearing the cloth they want to, by saying it’ll not fit with your body. It is very serious matter of the time.

How can we overcome this?

First of all stop criticizing yourself, and stop making fun of your appearance in front of people. No one will respect you if you don’t respect yourself.

Secondly, people should understand that Allah Almighty has made everyone perfect. Except saying self torturing words to someone you can praise them by saying that they are beautiful in the way they are. Stop judging someone’s appearance and let them live their lives peacefully. If you can’t do any good to someone then don’t do bad either. Stop finding bad in someone, look for the other good things they have got. May be you could be the reason for someone to believe in themselves. Say NO to body-shaming.