Body-shaming is defined as negative statements and attitudes toward yourself or another person’s weight or size.
When most people hear the term “body shaming,” they tend to associate it with the shaming of large bodies, commonly known as fat-shaming. Fat-shaming is the act of poking fun at someone for being overweight. Although fat-shaming is a part of body-shaming, it is only half of the story. There is also such thing as thin-shaming/skinny-shaming. Thin-shaming is to insult a person who is thin specifically because of their weight. The only difference between fat-shaming and thin-shaming is the weight the victim is being belittled over. The emotional abuse is the same. The psychological effects are the same. The long-term belittled mentality is the same. The self-hate and low self-esteems are the same. Approximately 91% of women are unhappy with their bodies and resort to dieting to achieve their ideal body shape. More than 1/3 of “normal” diets will evolve into pathological dieting. Roughly 1/4 of those will suffer from a partial or full-on eating disorder. Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of all mental illnesses. The term “body-positive” is a set of ideas that is geared to help people find greater well-being in the body have. We can spread the word of body positivity through new campaigns body positive campaigns and new approaches. Hopefully with the new information you learned, you can look in the mirror later and say positive things instead negative things. I hope you can educate your words and be apart of the elimination of body-shaming.
“Real women are fat. And thin. And both, and neither, and otherwise.” – Hanne Blank.