What is body shaming? Body shaming is the despicable act of hurling insults and criticising or poking fun at the physical appearance of a person and this form of bullying must be condemned in the strongest possible terms.

Who is anyone to be really the judge of beauty? “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” and therefore it is not right for anyone to judge a person by the external or outward look as this kind of classification of being beautiful is skin deep only.

There are also usually different, biased and prejudiced criteria and standards used by people to judge the beauty of a person, however, a supposedly ugly person can surprise us by having a kind heart, a heart of gold.

This “inner beauty” is more important as it is unchanging usually and gets more beautiful with time, unlike the physical appearance of a person that gets uglier as they age and this is why to judge someone to be ugly is not right.

If a person is deemed to be beautiful externally, it is a fleeting and temporary state, as eventually this form of beauty vanishes and this is why those who marry because of the beauty of their partners are in for a rude shock in due course.

External beauty is only like the wrapping of a package, but once the package is unwrapped there is often disappointment as the discovery that the person chosen as a partner is not a worthy character or is full of evil in person.

-THE MALAYSIA VOICE