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Societal Influence on Women’s Bodies

The pressure and expectations society is putting on women, their bodies and their appearance is huge. In many advertisements and magazines as well as on social media, women get pushed to fit into a certain image and to reach some socially presumed body standards.

By Laura Pröfrock

Even women themselves are body shaming each other or are judging each other’s decisions.

Especially mothers, including those who could have been​, have to explain themselves over and over again for their decisions.

Why they do not breastfeed their child.

Or if they do: Why they breastfeed their child in public.

Why they chose to have an abortion.

It is an intrusion of privacy. Decisions like these can come with a lot of pain or doubt. But instead of supporting women in their decisions, abortion is tabooed, shouted down, talked over in an encroaching way, or even banned by the society.
 

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