It seems like common sense, right? Your parents always told you not to insult people, but as you get older it becomes more of a thing. Body-shaming and telling people they’re not good enough because of how they look has become a part of daily life, and it's flat out disgusting.

How many times have you heard someone call another girl fat or too skinny? I guarantee it’s come out of your very own mouth, and I'm sure you've heard things being said about your personal body image before. We need this to stop.

If you’re a girl and you don’t have a big butt and decent sized boobs, you aren’t considered “attractive,” or the new thing that's floating around, “she can’t get it.” But what big-headed type of person had to unfortunately grace this planet and tell us how we are supposed to look?

Now, of course, this is not a new issue, but it’s increasingly becoming more and more of a problem. It doesn’t matter who you are, but unfortunately, your body is always under analysis, and we all know it. You may be aware of what people say about you, and it may be a very positive thing for you ego, or it could be eating away at you day after day causing you to spiral into a bad habit.

Lots of people don’t realize that the smallest comment can cause a girl to develop a nasty eating disorder and begin to starve herself to prove you wrong. Most of the time an eating disorder is developed because of something someone else has said to the person to influence her thoughts on her body, causing her to think poorly of the body that person was given. The girl you call “fat” one time thinks about it for weeks and stops eating when other people are around. Then it turns into not eating ever. She loses a few pounds and starts to feel better about herself when in reality she’s killing her body because of some stupid comment you said to her under your breath. The other girl that you said “couldn’t get it” because she doesn’t have a big butt is constantly in the gym pushing herself to her breaking point, while she has no clue what she’s doing, while continuing to not eat causing herself to strain her body, causing her joints and muscles to overwork because of some stupid joke you made to your friends.

This goes the other way too. Some people have naturally fast metabolisms, and that's not a bad thing. Some people are just naturally skinny and don’t have big boobs or a big butt, and can’t do anything about it. No matter how much they work out or how much they eat, they can’t gain a single pound, and feel stuck in a body that they aren’t good enough in. Now the girl that’s slightly “overweight” might look at the smaller girl and think, “you’re so lucky, you’re so skinny,” but the girl who's trapped in her tiny, little body hates that she never gets a date because boys at school have labeled her as “flat” and “looks like a boy,” and her friends' got boobs in seventh grade and she didn’t. These girls are affected at a young age, and to be completely honest, I bet every single girl has been affected by a comment from another person at some point in time. Some carry the weight on their shoulders for the rest of their life, and some discover that they can brush it off, that they can live with the scrutiny from others and have learned to not care, because again, who decided what is attractive and what we are supposed to look like?

You wouldn’t stop being friends with your “bro” because he gained a few pounds or didn’t have rock hard abs. You wouldn’t tell him he wasn’t good enough because he has a higher metabolism than you and can’t gain muscle in the gym. You flat out wouldn’t. So why are you doing it to girls? Stop body-shaming, because your sister, your daughter, your friend and you are the victims, and you know it.