Body Shaming: Time To Discourse About.

We live in a society where narrow beauty ideals matters a lot. People have a definite notion of “beauty” which defines the standards of body dimensions, skin colour, hair length, or the kind of clothes someone should wear or should not wear. Body shaming is seemingly never- ending. If you have a body, you’ve probably felt that it’s been subject to commentary or scrutiny at some point. The truth is that bodies come in all shapes and sizes, and that all bodies are valuable no matter how they look what all matters is our character and humanity.

Body –shamers do not spare anyone be it normal person or celebrities. Criticizing anyone can lead to inferiority, lowered confidence, eating disorders and other such issues. Constant remarks may make people anxious to the extent that they may suffer from depression and panic attacks. It is biggest threat to the mental health of the victim.

As a result of this body shaming a heart-wrenching incident, 16-years-old boy took the drastic step who got tired of being bullied by his classmates and people around him. He ended his life on 15 July 2020 after he was constantly termed as a ‘transgender’ or ‘kinnar’ by them. He left the suicide note in which he mentioned how he was shamed by the sham ers. He wrote “I have a girl -like features and even my face is like them. People laugh at me. Even I have started feeling as I am a ‘kinnar’. My life will darken your life and this is the reason why my death is necessary. Please bless me that I take birth as a girl. If a girl is born in our family, then you must believe that I have returned”.  This shed the light on that boy, who hanged himself, was fighting an inner battle against the ruthless remark made on him for being effeminate.   

People thought that body shaming is a kind of fun. They bully people just to laugh on someone and to look cool but it is not funny it is more dangerous than you think. Some things are obviously not cool. The fascinating thing about humanity is that we all are different individuals. We come in all shapes and sizes, and two of us are exactly the same. Instead of judging people just because they do not look as we want them to look alike. Don’t be a bully and don’t even let someone body shame you. Shape, size, color can never be the criteria to judge someone is character or potential. 

By: Mahima Roukhar