Factors Of Being A Victim Of Body Shaming

 

Factors Of Being A Victim Of Body Shaming

1. Lack Of Acceptance Of Differences

People have not yet learned to embrace diversity, which is the major contributing factor to body shaming. They feel compelled to draw attention to someone who stands out from the crowd when they see them. Furthermore, they frequently point out differences in an insulting manner because they don't value differences. In addition, those who often body shame others are people who lack of knowledge and are not open minded because they think that those who have a unique body is something strange. Other than that, they are old-fashioned and cannot accept someone's uniqueness as an advantage and instead continue to punish by mocking them. As an example, there is a woman who has a darker skin colour than others, they will look at her with a cynical look and make fun of her. Such things will make the person feel sad and inferior whereas everyone has their beauty and advantages without distinguishing themselves from others.

2. Lack Of Expression Of Our Real Feeling

Next, a major contributor to body shame is due to lack of expression for our real feeling. Emotional Expression can be defined in terms of how individuals portray their feelings or emotions. Emotions can be expressed by facial movements, verbally, or with gestures. People who lack of expression for their real feeling will feel so frustrating, annoyed, sad, angry or maybe stress this is also a form of emotion but they doesn’t show it to people because they can’t express their feeling so well to people. Because of this factor other people will never stop to body shaming them if the victim doesn’t learn to express their feeling. When someone doesn’t tell other about their feeling other people will never know what the victim feels that’s why they will keep disturbing the victim. For example your friend keep being body shaming and that time you know that about your friend feeling but your friend doesn’t express their feeling of course the one that body shaming your friend will never stop because they will think that your friends doesn’t mind them for doing your friend like that.

3. Social Media 

One of the big factors of body shaming is due to social media. As we all know social media is a platform which serves to upload videos or pictures related to a person's daily life it is also used all over the world regardless of age. Statistics show us that there are over 2.3 billion active social media users, with Internet users having an average of 5.5 social media accounts. (McGuire, J.2017, January 17).When someone uploads a photo or video to social media, they are likely to get body shaming. This is because in a social media platform there are millions of pictures or videos, this will cause the opinion or view of a person to change according to what is in their thoughts. When there is another abnormality or uniqueness seen in a person through a picture or video that they upload, people who see the picture will start to make negative comments that will compare that person with other people. For example, a person uploads their photo while being with celebrity will make other people compare the celebrity with that person.