Bodyshaming

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As Bodyshaming or body-shaming [ bɒdi ʃeɪmɪŋ ] have been used for the 21st century forms of discrimination , insults , harassment or humiliation of people because of their outer appearance designated; especially with regard to an ideal of beauty . These ideals can be reinforced by stereotypical representations in media and advertising.

Spread and causes

Bodyshaming often happens on social media platforms or image boards . Bodyshaming mostly affects people who do not conform to an ideal of beauty . These ideals can be reinforced by stereotypical representations in media and advertising. Bodyshaming can also be an aspect of bullying .

Women and people in puberty and adolescence are particularly sensitive .

Consequences for those affected

The consequences of bodyshaming in those affected are self-doubt about their own body, less self-confidence , self-image and self-esteem , reduced quality of life and it can contribute to mental illnesses such as depression or anxiety disorders and / or cause social isolation or self-harming behavior or other negative psychological side effects. In order to conform to the ideal of beauty, some sufferers also develop an eating disorder such as bulimia or have a strong need to adapt their body, e.g. B. plastic surgery or medication.

Stigma in practice draws attention to health differences in taller people. Lee points out in the study that overweight women with cervical or breast cancer die more often than fat-free women from the same types of cancer. Lee explains that this phenomenon occurred because practitioners' prejudices believe that obese people have poor health. Hence, their predetermined factors for cancer are overlooked due to the ideology that poor health leads to death. The stigma of weight within this Western cultural belief infiltrates our doctors. Creating an implicit bias between them that leads to their misdiagnosis. The problem needs to be ingrained, pulled out of our Western views and eliminated. The stereotype will only worsen with a sequel to make these belief systems possible.

Sizeism

A sub-form of body shamming is discrimination based on body weight or body structure , which is also referred to as fatshaming for overweight and generally as sizeism. For less trained, mostly male people with noticeably low body weight and slim physique, swear words such as leek and asparagus tartan have become established.

Delimitation and related issues

Bodyshaming is to be distinguished from a pure evaluation of the appearance or advice on the design of the external appearance. Discrimination on the basis of appearance is also called lookism . The delusional perception of one's own body as ugly is also known as dysmorphophobia . With this disorder, however, there is often no body shaming and those affected believe that they are ugly on their own for other reasons. Discrimination based on skin color is also racism . Bodyshaming due to unfulfilled external gender stereotypes can also be classified as sexism .

The body positivity movement tries to convince people that despite a deviation from the ideal of beauty, they should be satisfied with their body and that there are no universally valid ideals.

literature

  • Natalie Chomet: Coping with Body Shaming, The Rosen Publishing Group, 2017, ISBN 9781508178491
  • Meghan Green, Ronald D. Lankford, Jr .: Body Image and Body Shaming, Greenhaven Publishing LLC, 2016, ISBN 9781534560161
  • Lee, JA, & Pausé, CJ (2016). Stigma in Practice: Barriers to Health for Fat Women. Frontiers in Psychology , 7 , 2063. http://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.02063
  • Webb, Fiery, & Jafari. (2016). “You better not leave me shaming!”: Conditional indirect effect analyzes of anti-fat attitudes, body shame, and fat talk as a function of self-compassion in college women. Body Image, 18 , 5-13
  • Paul Gilbert, Jeremy Miles Routledge: Body Shame: Conceptualization, Research and Treatment, 2014, ISBN 9781317822318

Individual evidence

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  12. Sizeism Is Harming Too Many of Us: Fat Shaming Must Stop. Retrieved December 18, 2019 (American English).
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