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Body Shaming Doesn't Work (Page 2)
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Regarding the first image with the anorexic girl looking in a mirror - is her reflection meant to look fat? Because she looks hot to me.
Yeah. That is what some people consider fat.
I love skinny girls they're the best <3. It's just my preference.
Uhm ok? I don't know what that has to do with my take buuuut.
It's a take about not body shaming. So I'm giving some positivity.
Ohhh okay. :P
Why is it that when body shaming is brought up, only women are used as examples and not men? That only women of different bodies are beautiful but no examples of men? Is it because people like you think it's only wrong to body shame women and not men? For example body shaming fat men or men with small penises? Because the latter is very common among women who joke about that and such yet when it comes to them talking about body shaming issues, they only bring up women and not once men. Fat men have it pretty bad too. I was a fat kid when I was little and I was teased everyday in school. What did I do to change that? Lose weight! Still wrong for people to pick on others because of their weight but don't act like only women get picked on for their bodies. Unlike you only care about women and not men and humans in general.
I'm sorry I'm not perfect and I didn't address men issues too. I'm sorry I'm so stupid.
But this take was a personal experience that I wanted to share to bring to light the effects of body shaming. I'm not a man and I really can't relate to men. If you actually read my take, and didn't just scroll down to bottom like I assume you did, you would've saw that I lost over 40 pounds, and I am still losing, and that I went from a size 18, to a size 14. I was aware of my issues and decided to fix them.
And I'm sorry you had to go through that. It must be tough to go through that. I'll write a follow up to this one soon. I should've just geared this one just to women.
Now please stop insulting me. It's really getting old having people repeat the same things over and over and then I have to explain myself...
Thank you.
And if you could interpret well enough you could apply it to yourself. People are beautiful, and people don't deserved to be shamed. Men get shamed too I know. Sorry that I'm a female rather than a male.
Sorry but I'm not going to read this since it only caters to women. And to all the women telling the other guy to make his own myTake regarding men's body shaming and insecurity issues, he can do that but the thing is, no women on here care to respond or comment on men's insecurities or body related issues so there's no point. So many insecurity related questions are asked by men on here which are left unanswered by women. At least when insecure women or post a myTake, dozens of men comment with majority complimenting or saying it's okay.
Well I'm sorry I'm stupid.
And I don't know why you can't take the time to read what I have to say, and you just leave a comment insulting my experiences like they didn't matter because you can't "relate" to them. You just saw that it was about me, and decided to leave a negative comment... Please stop...
All overweight and underweight people can relate. I see it all the time in my school. They go through the same things all the time. Men are insecure too, I know. Sometimes their insecurities are left unheard... I know... Sorry.
I'm not in the best mood right now and I'm about to go to bed. Sorry if I offended you and a mass group of men.
Thanks.
I have nothing against you. You seem like a really nice girl from your posts but I just can't stand women who only care about their own issues and exclude men from the subject. Thing is, I'd be okay with that but when men post body insecurity issues, women completely ignore it. If there were just as much women telling us it's okay just like there are enough men telling women it's okay, the world would be a much better place. But no, it's all about women, women, and women and will be always about women. But yeah, you don't need to apologize because it will always be about women's insecurities and body issues and never men's. Goodnight.
Also, sorry for the downvote, I meant to upvote my I accidentally taped the downvote button
All the girls you've shown in this Take are either not fat whatsoever (verging curvy) or on the verge of being overweight...
Fat-shaming isn't focused on these curvy women who are clearly not at risk... but at those who are well into overweight/obesity.
You can't tell an obese man or woman that their weight is fine and that people should respect it... it's unhealthy.
As I said in the take, they know that already. They know that their health is at risk and that they are dying. Calling them fat pieces of shit doesn't give them motivation to save their health either. I was 240 pounds. I was obese, and people calling me fat every day didn't make me want to lose weight. It made me want to go and commit suicide. It's okay to encourage people that their weight isn't healthy, but bullying them about it is not okay.
Thanks for reading and the input.
I'm a size 2 and have been shamed by more than one man for gaining a few pounds. It is the worst feeling in the world and it has the opposite effect. I run several times a week and can do a 10k in under an hour, I do yoga. I dont eat a lot but I eat what I want.
My brother shamed me on Christmas for having two one inch squared pieces of fudge. And I've had boyfriends do this when I gain a few pounds at the beginning of a relationship. Needless to say I don't make it past the beginning of a relationship with such men but if I had they would see it was a temporary variance in weight from spending more time with them. Once I settle into the relationship I'm able to pick up running more regularly and it goes away.
Ah! This is so true! Good luck on your journey!
Thanks so much Belle! I.'me glad you liked it!
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fat kids should get placed in health classes, along with their parents
as far as shaming skinny people, its the fat people doing it, no sympathy for the fat people, they are monsters, i got bullied by fat kids all my life, they used their size to their advantage, i hate fat people
you're rude. You didn't even read my take, I swear you scrolled down to the comment box just to type this opinion about how much you hate fat people. How immature is that?
You are right I didn't read the take
I apologize for that, I will read it now
Okay. Please read it.
Go girl ! Tell them ! Being fat is ok ! Who cares if you die at 45 years of age because of obesity related illnesses ! It's beautiful and that is just how you are ! (because you binge eat and refuse to spend 30 minutes of your day on physical activity)
And then people wonder why 75% of Americans are at unhealthy body weight while other civilized countries are imposing legal and social penalties to battle obesity.
it obviously isn't. You didn't even read my take, you just scrolled to the bottom to type this poorly thought-out opinion.
I lost 40 pounds from a healthy diet of fruits and vegetables, and I'm still losing weight, but you probably didn't know that, because you didn't read it. You just saw the title and decided to insult me.
So it's okay for people to call them "fatasses
... Simply because they have health issues that they can easily fix with diet, exercise, and encouragement from others. Oh, and I also covered the topic of the shaming of THIN people, but you probably didn't read it, so who cares... Sorry that I'm so dumb and stupid.
It's not beautiful, and it's not okay. But that doesn't mean it's justifiable to bully a person to the point of depression just because they're unhealthy at the moment. That was the main idea of this take. I'm guessing that just flew over your head though. I'm tired of explaining the point of this to everyone who didn't understand. Also, this was my weight loss story, but I'm guessing nobody cares.
I did read the whole thing. I read the paragraph where you say "Why was I letting my bullies win over me? I couldn't let that happen... I couldn't let them win. And at the moment, I took initiative to lose weight."
Contradicting your whole take, as you in fact did not decide to lose weight because of the PLETHORA of serious effects your unhealthy lifestyle had on you and the people around you as a sane thinking person, but because you didn't want the bullies to "win" implying that what lead you to fat loss was in fact, bullying.
Then you proceeded to post "beauty in ever shape and size" and a bunch of other fat acceptance gibberish that is more destructive than fat shaming, because it portraits the twisted idea that being fat is ok and you should love yourself for it.
You didn't have to write this cynical, passive-aggressive opinion to rile me up. You could've just wrote what you said here.
This was personal experience of mine that I wanted to share. What did I learn? Body shaming and bullying doesn't work in helping a person lose weight. Instead of helping me, I got FATTER. You obviously wanted me to lose weight, right? You could've came to me, like you actually cared about my well being, and told me the truth, instead of calling me a "fatass" and a "landwhale". That's all I'm saying.
It is not justifiable to bully anybody for any reason yes, but since you have decided to lose weight after getting bullied you have no evidence that encouragement would actually work.
Since, as is obvious from your story you didn't care about the actual effects of being overweight but suffered distress from being bullied.
But if nobody bullied you, would you really just decide on your own to lose weight so that people then could encourage you in your decision?
I mean, if nobody minded it why should you the person who got themselves overweight in the first place mind either?
As far as skinny bullying goes, yes that is sad. But, that is just another sad impact of fat acceptance and glorification of obesity in media.
I would've still lost the weight, because I didn't love myself. I felt disgusted in myself. It wasn't the bullying that got me to lose the weight, it was because I found the will in myself to lose it. The bullying just wanted to make me binge eat more. The will in myself, and encouragment from people who actually cared about me, made me want to lose the weight. I see it all the time, these girls who become depressed because they hate themselves and they turn to food or cutting because they hate themselves so much. It's not cool. I would've lost the weight before I became obese if I wasn't bullied constantly for it. I lost all the motivation to get up and do something because of how sad I was. Depression just drags you down.
I noticed you only focused on women's body shaming. What about the men who have to put up with every guy ad being filled by a dude with 6 pack abs and an unrealistic body image?
Women always forget the guys.
Because I wrote it about me, and it's easier to relate to girls because I AM a girl. I hope you read the whole thing instead of nitpicking things you don't like, because it was REALLY difficult to write this and share it with you all.
Actually, I was thinking of writing a take on men's bodies so there you go.
But you didn't write one on men's bodies. With you women it's always about "me, me, me. all about my problems."
Well other people have problems too.
Well I have one in the works.
And I'm not allowed to share an experience? I have to address other people's issues all the time?
... and you're talking about your own problems too, @John_Doesnt so why don't you write a take about endangered sea turtles or something? Why are you so focused on your problems? Ugh. Men. They always forget the sea turtles.
Well instead of picking this apart, why not write about your own struggles and gear it towards guys? Like come on with the bitching.
This whole take is about bitching on what the guys are doing.
What guys? If you payed attention the bullies were other girls.
If it bothers you so much then go write a take about men. Geez
Stop bitching about me bitching... If that makes sense. Thanks.
This is the opinion section and my opinion is that your opinion sucks. If that makes any sense
Then please go and write a take stating your opinion please.
This wasn't really an opinion based take. It was about a personal experience that I wanted to share.
I have a right to my opinion.
How can someone's personal experience suck?
Let me just jump into this.
I don't think you read her full take. Why didn't she write about men? She's a 16 year old girl explaining her experience with body shamming and what other girls have done to her and what the effects of that was. It would not make any sense if she wrote about men's experiences because she is a girl and again she is only 16. You're moaning and groaning about men's experiences well dude share it I'm sure plenty of men have experienced it and you would be helping them out. Stop acting like a whiny bitch I woulda taken your stance as acceptable but all you did in your counter argument was bitch.
WRITE ONE ABOUT MEN! I WILL EVEN FUCKING COMMENT ON IT.
Add on (Get over yourself dude)
I love this! Great take!
Thanks! Thank you for reading! :)
welcome :)
I agree. Great take :)
Thanks! :)
I loved this. Excellent!👏👍
Thank you ! 😘
Beautifully written!
Thank you❤️ It was hard for me to share this with you
Just stop eating if you are fat. It's not healthy. People who let themselves go should be made to feel ashamed.
You can't "just stop eating" when it's a psychological issue. I had buliema, which is more psychological than physical. I was depressed and used food as an outlet for my depression.
After getting treatment for it, then yeah, I could "just stop eating". I lost tons of weight too, if you read that part. :)
Oh, also I said when people bullied me, I got even more sad, which caused me to get FATTER. Just because it's unhealthy doesn't make it justifiable for you to be mean to someone you don't know.
For an adult, your mentality is both sad and pity worthy.
Great take! :)
Thank you! ❤️
You're welcome
Great take :)
Thank you... Finally a positive opinion.
What do you mean finally positive?
I dunno. Some people just came on my take to write a negative comment. Thanks for the positivity.
you're welcome
I like this :D
Thank you. :)
Body shaming doesn't work and neither does ignoring obesity and calling average or curvy
Nobody said anything about ignoring obesity.
Don't get jelly you can't make a take this good :s
Let me guess, OP is fat.
Nope.
I used to be but if you read what I wrote, then you WOULD'VE known that I lost all of that weight.
Nice try troll.
I'm so sick of people coming on my posts just to post negative stuff just because it's about body image. You could've guessed that I was skinny because I write this for them too but no, I just have to be fat because of what reason?
Lol Rainbow don't even listen to him. He's always on here whining about how girls only date and sleep with attractive guys, so he's insecure and wants to take it out on random people on the Internet