BODY SHAMING NEEDS TO STOP

Ha!!!, Seriously! Tracy has been in the toilet for hours, at this rate eh we might need to visit the hospital before anything else happens. (Waited for few minutes), ha! Babes, sorry, how are you feeling en? Patting her back.A little bit better Tracy replied, but just for you to know sliming tea no be( is not)for everybody oooo.Tracy gave  a faint smile and took a little step forward, the next thing I heard was the sound of an ambulance serine., oh!! Jesus! Save Tracy...

Madam madam, how far na( how are you doing)? Sha don't kill yourself. My dear this killer shape must be achieved oooo, success said painting after working out for 2 hours. But madam need I me to remind you that everybody in your family no fat abi and non of them has killer shape yet they are fine. My dear all that is about to change, she said shaking her body,  by the time I'm done with all this drugs and my workout routine, I will be dripping, success replied. Anyways I've had you but don't forget you have to pitch for the new project tomorrow, please be right on time. Sure she said. The next morning success was no we're to found and her phone keeps ringing...

Well, I'm sure I have not  bore you with my stories cause the truth of the matter is some of us are either  tracy or success or even have people that fit into this categories, also, far from this stories well maybe not so far are people who washes ( did I say wash) bleaches jire from fine cool black skin to a fair like Fella will say yellow fever skin and really this people can't be blamed because our society will not just let them be, yes I said it our society. Society as in one way or another carved an inch which is a standard inch to them of how people should look. I mean,I was in a bus one day and this man, a man oh! Was telling his sister I guess judging from there conversation that she needs to reduce her size and also her tummy fat and she was like " I don born na, weytin you aspect,I no fit come die ooo, I don drink tea I don taya" and I'm like guy stop this na ( in my mind Sha ooo), this is an outright BODY SHAMING, in public.

Well, Body shaming is the action or practice of humiliating sombeone by making mockery or critical comments about their body shape, size or colour. People who body shames are often like " This colour you choose would have been nice if it was worn by a fair person, this dress would have been so cool on a slim person. Ah! assuming you are fat this hair do would have been so nice on you or assuming you were curvy this dress would have been so nice" haba aunty, uncle this people did not really make themselves. I'll say that what many people do not know is that they are slowly murdering this set of people through body shaming and when I say murder I do mean It, cause you do not necessarily have to put a gun to one's head before you kill them. This set of persons are murdered psychologically, emotionally, physically and in their  self-esteem. Yeah,Self- esteem I must tell you is an aspect of psychology that propel people to act and pursue their dreams in life. You can imagine if you look at yourself in the mirror before going out for a business submit and you try so hard to build your self -esteem just to tell yourself that you are good enough,only for someone to say something shabbily and ruin the whole self- esteem you have built. Why then do you want to do that to someone.Now I know, there are times body shaming happens unintentionally but we can intentionally change our attitude towards people,love to love people regardless of their shape,size and color cause no one is perfect and we are not meant to be.

NAME: OPOMULO MERCY BLESSING.

STATE CODE:OS/21B/3434.

COURSE OF STUDY: ENGLISH AND LITERARY STUDIES

INSTITUTION: ADEKUNLE AJASIN UNIVERSITY.

STATE OF ORIGIN: ONDO STATE.