Have you came across with body-shaming?

And on which side were you? On that one who got targeted by it, or you body-shamed someone? If the first one is right, what was your reaction in such a situation? And how it affected you afterwards?

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HeyLookItsGemma · 31-35, F

Yeah. I used to have a tumblr page and enjoyed posting pics of my holidays and travels, climbing and outdoor activities and for some reason on almost every post there was always a few people who would proceed to tell me that I need to eat more and how only dogs like bones and how I'm anorexic and stuff. It actually impacted me a lot because I wasn't 100% sure why I was being attacked but I ended up having to delete my blog because I got so worried about posting anything anymore.

SW-User

OY, not you!! :(
Sorry to hear yo....those peeps are not nice...

JaneSerenity · 26-30, F

That's really horrible, I just can't understand why people are pointing out others people bodies, it's not their body, so why do they care and say stupid things. Person shouldn't get impacted by it..but it's hard to get it from your head right? Well hope you are happy now and it isn't stuck in your head forever :)

HeyLookItsGemma · 31-35, F

Its okay. It was just disappointing. That place got really toxic not long before I decided to leave anyway. Way too many angry people. I grew up dealing with incontinence anyway so I've been called much worse things than anorexic and told to eat more. Just thought I'd tell my experience of it anyway. The worst thing is that the people who were being so terrible to me were bigger girls too which made me sad because surely at some point they must have been victims of it and must know how bad it felt.

JaneSerenity · 26-30, F

@HeyLookItsGemma: I see sorry to hear that, noone deserves bad treating, people should think firstly about how the other person might feel after they read their remarks. *sigh* well maybe they were just hidig behind these arguments, they had to target someone else so they could escape from their thoughts, which is really really sad.

HeyLookItsGemma · 31-35, F

@JaneSerenity: Maybe that is the case yes. Guess I'll never know. My Tumblring days are long behind me now