Saturday 24 September 2016

The Internet's Shameful Role in Propagating Body Shaming




A problem once associated mainly with school playgrounds often follows people into adulthood, and the anonymity of the Internet has aided its proliferation. People have been shamed for being overweight, underweight, too conservative, too revealing, too young, too old, too plastic or too real.

Bullying and harassment are very real problems not only for children, but also for countless adults -- as evidenced by Playboy playmate Dani Mathers' recent Snapchat post of a nude 70-something woman who had a reasonable expectation of privacy in a locker room shower.

"If I can't unsee this then you can't either," Mathers commented with her post of the victim's photo.

The Los Angeles Police Department has asked the victim to identify herself and aid in its criminal investigation of the incident -- but who could blame her if she doesn't?
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