Body Shaming & its Effects
Body Shaming & its Effects Have you ever been body shamed? Have you ever body-shamed someone? Did anyone close to you ever face body shaming? The answers to all the above questions can be yes or no depending upon the people or society you live with, but believe me, as a society we can’t deny that body shaming is one of the ills that is very much part of our life and not many eyebrows are raised when during a conversation with friends or relatives, someone or other is mocked for his or her bodily faults. Sometimes it is sugar-coated with care or concern for the person being body shamed. We have become a society full of adjectives, each one of us has some or other adjective that we associate with any random person whom we start judging because of his or her appearance. Sometimes, we body shame or age shame ourselves and become too critical of our appearance. Body shaming is the humiliation or criticism of someone’s physical appearance or imperfecti...