Body-shaming is one of the silent crimes women become a victim of. Even though it doesn’t leave a physical scar like rape or domestic violence, it creates a deep negative effect on the mind of the victim whose confidence level gradually starts decreasing and a sense of self-hatred begins to develop.
However, it was not the case with this beautiful woman named Sejal Pradhan from Wrocław, Poland. She is originally from India but got settled in Poland after marriage. The 27-yr lady is an engineer by profession and as they say, you must never mess with an engineer! She is adept in her field but at the same time, the woman is no less when it comes to slamming haters and body-shamers.
‘Random jerk of a relative’ whom she never met in person messaged her on Facebook, making an unfavorable comment on her weight! The so-called relative wrote, “Y do I feel u putting on weight by the hour”.
This naturally made her furious as nobody has the right to body-shame someone whom they are not friendly with. In addition, if this was said in a comical tone, the relative was not so frank and cordial with her to have the authority of cracking any such joke.
Instead of tolerating the insult silently or bear the agony of the displeasing comment, Sejal decided to give it back to the relative. In a hard-hitting Facebook post, she has clearly and rightfully said that she’s not the one to have been affected by such verbal offence, which is no less than a kind of harassment!
Check out her Facebook post:
“Random jerk of a relative on Facebook (who’s never even spoken to me before in person) messages this out of nowhere. Looks like social media hasn’t given them enough doses about body shaming already. But I’m ready to offer my two pennies’ worth to people like him in need.
Here’s some help: My weight, whether I gain it, lose it or keep it the same is in no way asking for your opinion. Have I ever asked for one? No. Do I look disheartened about my body and am I seeking sympathy? No.
So please keep your downright crass and judgemental opinions to yourself.
To start with, scrutinise your mother/girlfriend/wife’s weight gain/loss trend over the years and conduct a thorough analysis. This way, you’ll end up being a little less ignorant about the factors triggering it. That might surely help. And only after you’ve successfully cleared this stage of your investigation, wrack your pea-sized brain some more and ‘think’ before you speak or type, to the rest of the world. Because every single person out there knows their own struggle, or probably they’re completely content with the body they have and aren’t struggling at all!
Oh, and just in case you were thinking that you cracked a good joke here by pointing out to my weight, I’m sorry you were not even close. Maybe I could point out to ‘that belly of yours that you could occasionally use as a table’ to have a good laugh… but no, I don’t class it as humour. Because nobody is obliged to look a certain size/shape/colour just to please your eyes. And most importantly, kindly get a life. I’m sure there are ample ‘real’ issues around you that would require your valuable perusal, rather than pondering over how I’m miraculously gaining weight with every passing hour.
Thank you!”
You nailed it woman! More power to you!
