Have you ever been shamed?

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It doesn't matter if it is body shaming, slut shaming, kink shaming, or any other kind, it is not okay. If we keep putting others down, how can we expect to rise ourselves? We need to help each other because if you shame someone, you are only shaming yourself. #Stoptheshame

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Well idk if this falls into it, but this girl told me I looked like a cancer patient/12 year old boy in highschool(7 years ago) and tbh, I've never gotten over it. I am on plastic surgery forums almost everyday researching doctors. Be careful with your words.. they really do hurt.

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The number of times someone has made a comment about my lack of curves. I am slim and many people just presume that they can say whatever they want about someone's weight, as long as they are not insulting someone for being overweight. Body shaming works both ways. When someone says 'Real women have curves' it is not empowering, it just shames a different set of people. Why is that ok? I'm naturally not curvy, but people feel the need to make me feel horrible and masculine.

Someone at work told me that God made a mistake when he made me because I should be a man. Clients (I was a bra fitter) telling me I don't know what they need because I don't even need to wear a bra. I also had numerous clients (with large boobs) that they wish they could be completely flat chested, "just like you, completely flat with no need to wear a bra at all." My own grandmother slapped my bottom and told me I am just like my father with a flat bottom and that no man would want me as a wife because I probably cannot have children. Comments really hurt. 
Whenever I lose weight, all my relatives make it the first thing they comment on. It's 'hello, you've lost weight, you look sick.' Thanks.

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Who hasn't?

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Basically my whole life growing up I was shamed for being too small. Now my own mom slut shames me and make fun of me now that I actually weigh a healthy weight. Just sucks.

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I have been both "skinny" and "fat". I used to get sooooo much shit for being skinny. People flat out telling me I need to eat more or that I look sick. Girls calling me a slut because I had a nice body and guys found me attractive. Now I am about 50 lbs heavier (thanks marriage) - when I'm at my mom's or grandma's house, they give me less food than anyone else and tell me to get out of the kitchen if I go in even just to stand there. They tell me I shouldn't be wearing shorts or tank tops or short dresses because my body isn't "meant" for it. Even my MIL told me 2 months before my wedding that if I wanted to look beautiful in my wedding pictures, all I had to do was drop 40 lbs. In two months. 😐😑 and don't get me started on being brown.. I used to work in a salon and constantly get snooty old white women come up to me and ask me if I am here legally. Like, what the fuck kind of question is that? 😡😡 I used to have clients not wanting me to even touch them because they automatically assumed I was bad. Because of the color of my skin. And soooo on.

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Ive been told i made other women sick bc i was so skinny. Any amount of weight i gained i felt fat bc i would get shamed jokely by family members saying i have a pudge and gaining weight then how other women would say i made them sick. It has made me have a serious body image issue

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