Twitter users decry body shaming by bravely talking about their horrible experiences

Have you been a victim of body shaming too? Then, it's time you speak up.

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Body shaming is the act of making humiliating and critical comments on someone’s body size or weight. (Source: Peglet/Twitter)

Body shaming is the act of making often pointed, humiliating and critical comments on someone’s body size or weight. Women and men often fall prey to the society’s standards of what true beauty is, and have found themselves becoming victims of lifestyle and psychological diseases like bulimia, anorexia, and depression, etc., as a result.

Recently, Harnidh Kaur, a woman based in Mumbai was at the receiving end of some nasty comments that someone made while she had gone out jogging. Not wanting to keep mum about it and let it pass, she took to Twitter. Her tweet read: “Today. I was jogging and someone behind me sniggered about how I’m ‘jiggling’. That messed my head up, tbh. I’m trying! That doesn’t help!”

She then decided to engage in what seems like a healthy and brave conversation, to encourage people to speak up about their horrifying experiences of being body shamed. And there were some really saddening responses.

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Today, in the age of the internet, it is becoming easier to bully people behind the comfort of their computer screens, more and more people are being made insecure about their bodies. People are however, increasingly becoming resilient to such advances made on them, and are fighting back bravely. And this episode was an encouraging example, to say the least.

Today. I was jogging and someone behind me sniggered about how I’m ‘jiggling’. That messed my head up, tbh. I’m trying! That doesn’t help! https://t.co/ATEspIMAUf

— Peglet (@PedestrianPoet) November 3, 2016

@PedestrianPoet Been colour shamed till my 20s then body shamed. I always answer back in multiple languages. I’m most beautiful when I #slay

— Karuna John (@karunajohn) November 3, 2016

4 days since I’d popped, I was gifted a top in size Small, with ‘I couldn’t find an XL; but, motivation for you to get back in shape!’ https://t.co/nkNrcyid4f

— Mama B (@PennyLooney) November 3, 2016

But I bloat and gain weight easily. I’m also overweight; 70 kg at 17. PCOS is common but a lot of people are ignorant about it. https://t.co/38Is3nACiV

— NOPE NOPE (@kantnomore) November 3, 2016

@PedestrianPoet As a chubby kid, I was sitting on the floor and someone compared the sight to folding a Dunlop mattress. I was 12.

— Obstetrix (@ScissorTongue) November 3, 2016

@PedestrianPoet I’ve squint and I’ve learned to live with it but can’t count the number of times when people made me uncomfortable for it.

— Shiraz (@iSHIRAZONLY) November 3, 2016

@PedestrianPoet Funnily, the day I began loving myself the way I am, the fat shaming also stopped. Wooptedo!

— Sharada (@notshraddha) November 3, 2016

@PedestrianPoet This has happened to me before. I’ve given exactly the same response.
And so I doodled it. pic.twitter.com/Pdkkee0Eni

— Rehna (@Rehnak) November 3, 2016

@PedestrianPoet And also to note that not just chubby people are shamed here. Even thin peeps are. And theyre all just terrible. pic.twitter.com/zRgIi7aBLO

— Rehna (@Rehnak) November 3, 2016

Have you been a victim of body shaming too? Then, it’s time you speak up.