I can't believe I have to have this conversation.

Sit down. Take a pause. Read this statement, let the words sink deeply into your brain and please for the love of all things holy remember what I am telling you!

Body-shaming had got to stop. I cannot tell you how many times a day I'm just scrolling through Twitter, Instagram or my Facebook feed and I come across someone making comments about someone else's body.

Excuse me but why the hell do you think you have the privileged to judge someone else's body? It's not yours, you're not the one who wakes up in it, lives a life with it, goes to bed in it, and just deals with it every damn day so what is the problem? Whyyyyyyyy do people think it's okay to pass judgement about someone that they might not even know?!

And then of course there's the people that will tweet, text, or even just make comments right out loud and then when confronted they will jump to the defense of "ohmygod I was just joking! can't you take a joke?"

You're not fooling anyone, and aren't jokes supposed to be funny? I know if someone turned around and made comments like that towards you, you'd feel a little different. Don't even get me started on the people who go out of their way to body-shame celebrities and public figures (quite frequently seen on Twitter). I get it, you don't have to be a fan of every celebrity, that's fine. But why reduce yourself to making comments about how someone looks in a bikini?

You can have your opinions and think whatever you want, but don't tweet it. I'm sure no one cares enough to read it let alone retweet it. Besides, there are many other things you can use to justify your dislike for a celebrity, such as they don't have a great voice, they may have committed a crime, they may not be a great person behind closed doors. See how much more legitimate those reasons are rather than "well she looks like A WHALE in that bathing suit!"

And to the people whom people feel the need to talk about, in no way should you let these comments affect you or your quality of life. Do not feel any less than anyone because of what someone said. They don't have the slightest clue about you, and if you love your body, if you're happy with yourself that's what fucking matters. I will not just sit around and watch people tear each other down simply because they can. This has got to stop.

We are raising our sons and daughters in this generation. We are raising them in a world where its okay to call someone a fat whale because it's behind a computer screen. Our daughters are being raised in a world where they think their worth as a human being comes from comments made by others. Our sons are being taught that women are just objects meant to be toyed with. Why doesn't anyone want to fight for this like I do? Why aren't we getting mad as hell and putting our feet down to say enough is enough?

I don't know about you, but I will not let my children grow up thinking that what someone else thinks about them is more important than what they think of themselves.

I hope you learned something from this. I hope you're staring at your phone screen or computer screen mad as hell, I hope you call up your child's school and organize an anti-bullying program. I hope you teach your kids that it is never their place to speak ill about someone's body. I hope this encourages you to do something about the blatant problem we have in this world when it comes to respect.