Why you need to stop body-shaming yourself

You need to stop body-shaming yourself because your body is your First and Foremost weapon.

You need to stop body-shaming yourself because your body is your power house.

You need to stop because you are the goddess – the creator of life.

By body-shaming yourself, you disown your body and drain it of the positivity and energy vital for life.

By body-shaming yourself, you extinguish the fire, the energy, the light that exudes from your body.

So you need to stop it now. And be the goddess that you know deep-down that you are.

Body-shaming is the most subtle form of female oppression and subjugation in the Western world. Now that the world has moved on from the earlier and more overt forms of misogyny (at least in the popular and liberal narratives), body shaming serves the purpose just right. By making women doubt their bodies on the basis of color, shape, size and mathematical standards of beauty, we trap them in the prison of their flesh – making them unable to look and think beyond.

And this is nothing new.

From times immemorial, female body has always been an easy target of control and subjugation. Greeks considered women “misbegotten men” because they were smaller and frailer. Greek men were more intelligent and smarter because women were smaller and frailer. Greek apes must be smarter than Greek men then. 

Later, during 14^th-18^th century, when men realized that women were actually equally intelligent (or even more); they, being the real apes and “misbegotten women”, used religion as a weapon. Witch-hunt started and tens of thousands of innocent European and American women were executed.

And now that the myth of witchcraft is no longer effective, modern myth which women are victimized with is the ideal of a perfect female body. First and foremost, you need to assure yourself that the ideal of a perfect female body is a lie – a myth propagated by mass media to serve over-the-top billionaires whose industries thrive on the low self-esteem of women.

You hate your body, he makes money from it and with that money he buys you the mythical ideal of a perfect female body. He is your new master now.

Stop falling for the trap.

Because you got all you need to be your own mistress. And because you know you can turn a man into stone with the blink of an eye (well, that’s a bit exaggerated).

Women can stop being treated as objects only when they stop thinking about themselves as the objects of men’s desire. When they body-shame themselves, they disregard many other qualities which define and constitute them.

Your body is yours and only you decide and choose how it should look.    

The way you look at yourself largely shapes how the world looks at you.

Learn to appreciate the unique gifts that God bestowed upon you. The positive energy that emanates from self-love becomes a source of life. It drives you forward in life leading you towards success, happiness and light.

You need to stop body-shaming yourself so you can become the goddess that Maya Angelou is.

You need to stop body-shaming yourself so you can become the goddess that Serena Williams is.

You need to stop body-shaming yourself so you can become the goddess that Margaret Thatcher is.

You need to stop so you can be the goddess that you have always wanted to be. You need to stop because you know who you are and you love yourself.