Be Ashamed to Shame
Most people these days slam magazines and the fashion industry for depicting the perfectly unattainable body. All too quickly we pass the buck and tell everyone its not our fault, that we are being drowned by that falsity of the media and we can’t be blamed for our own body perceptions.
But have you ever really stopped to
think about your own actions? Have you ever stopped to consider that people are
willing to actively body shame others? That not only does the media show us
these perfect images, but that we take them on board, we embody them and splurt
them out whenever we think its ok to do so. Yet really, it is never ok to do
this. It’s never ok to tell someone they’re too skinny or too fat or that
they’re ugly and you’re not. It’s never ok to say you’re better than someone
because of your acne-free skin or your silky smooth legs.
We blame the media yet we fail to
realise the issue resonates within us. We are the ones transcending the
messages created by the media. We share the memes making funny of people because
of their weight, their looks. We have become enslaved to the power of social
media, because we think we can remain anonymous behind a screen, on the other
side of which someone is crying because of the hurt, the embarrassment,
everything you have made them feel because of the spiteful words you have
shared so flippantly.
Why do we find it funny? As a society
we find it funny to ridicule others in that way. We are sick. Utterly sick,
rotting inside.
