Body shaming is the action or practice of subjecting someone to humiliation and criticism for their physical appearance. The scope of body shaming is wide, and can include, although is not limited to fat-shaming, shaming for thinness, height-shaming, shaming of hairiness (or lack thereof), of hair-color, body-shape, one’s muscularity (or lack thereof), shaming of looks (facial features), and in its broadest sense may even include shaming of tattoos and piercings or diseases that leave a physical mark such as psoriasis.
In a study of children’s film and books regarding messages about the importance of appearance, media targeted for children were heavily saturated with messages emphasizing attractiveness as an important part of relationships and interpersonal interaction. Among the movies used in the study, two Disney movies contained the highest number of messages about personal beauty. This study also found 64% of the videos studied portrayed obese characters as unattractive, evil, cruel, and unfriendly, and more than half of the portrayals involved the consideration or consumption of food.
Some forms of body shaming have ancient origins in popular superstition, such as discrimination against people with red hair and stereotypes of people with blonde hair. Forms of discrimination may also differ significantly depending on age group. For example, among preadolescents, tall tweens are sometimes depicted as awkward, and sometimes face derogatory pejorative terms such as “lanky”. However, upon adulthood, such unflattering attitudes typically undergo a reversal as height is typically valued among adults.
Sometimes body shaming can extend to a perception that one does not sufficiently display masculinity or femininity. For example, men with wide hips or prominent breasts or lack of facial hair are sometimes shamed for appearing feminine. Similarly, women have been body-shamed for their lack of femininity for appearing to have a man-bulge, or for having broad shoulders, traits that are typically associated with men. Suicide because of the body shaming is the fourth leading cause of death in 15–19-year-olds. Extensive levels of body-shaming can have negative emotional effects, including a reduction in self-esteem and other issues such as eating disorders, anxiety, body image disturbance, body dysmorphic disorder and depression. Also, body shaming can lead to serious depression, especially when people feel their body can not meet social criteria. Please we should avoid doing this to people, accept them they way they are. Don’t make them feel bad, they are not the ones that created themselves, it’s God. Don’t criticize or mock them.
We should avoid emotional torture to other people
Body shamo can lead to depression, from depression, suicide next
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We do this unconsciously, and it should stopped
Not everyone has strong enough emotions to absorb body shaming
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We should accept everyone the way they are,we shouldn’t criticize them
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Body shaming can lead to suicide
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We should try and accommodate them because they are not the one that created themselves
Truth say it is not good to discriminate we should try to accommodate others matter how hard it is.
Body shaming is one of the problem we face as human
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Body shaming can lead to depression….we should try and accommodate them
Wow this matter has been trending for now,and the rate of shaming is alarming.but also must add that we must also learn to appreciate ourselves before anyone else does. There’s beauty in every one ,we must first see this beauty before others.As for me am a short girl and am a spec
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True facts Some forms of body shaming have ancient origins in popular superstition, such as discrimination
Never compared urself to anyone
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Appreciate God’s work in others
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Body shaming can also cause loneliness nd depression
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But the thing is that people call for criticism but the only want praise
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Body shaming causes low self esteem and it can lead to depression and sucide.
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Body shaming should be greatly rebuked
It lowers one’s self esteem and could damage one’s confidence
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We need to see the beauty in others and stop body shaming
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Seriously.. I do not see sense in body shaming people, because nobody at the point of creation had a choice of what kind of body they’d like.
Body shaming should be a crime punishable under the law
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This what all of us should fight against because It like a poison among us