{"id":51887,"date":"2017-11-12T01:58:51","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T01:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=51887"},"modified":"2017-11-12T01:58:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T01:58:51","slug":"men-hate-women-taking-selfies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=51887","title":{"rendered":"That is Why Men Hate Women taking selfies"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are few harmless actions that seem to infuriate guys more than young women taking selfies.<\/p>\n

And it is mostly young women who have been snapping pictures of their faces and posting them to Instagram since the social-media platform\u2019s inception in 2010. In 2014, a survey by photography app Selfiecity revealed that in New York, 23-year-old females take the most selfies and 62 percent of selfies are taken by women. (That\u2019s still less than in other cities \u2014 in Moscow, for instance, 82 percent of selfies depict female faces.)<\/p>\n

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Taking pictures of yourself is an action that harms precisely zero people, but you wouldn\u2019t know that the way some people respond.<\/p>\n

In 2015, Prince Harry once snapped at a teenaged female fan who wanted a selfie with him, \u201cSeriously, you need to get out of it. I know you\u2019re young, but selfies are bad.\u201d He declined to elaborate on why.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s hardly alone. Male journalists regularly rail against the practice. Like Chris O\u2019Shea at The Daily Lounge, who bemoaned: \u201cThe selfie. Is there anything more annoying in the social-media world?\u201d while concluding that, possibly, babies and ultrasound pictures are more annoying. Meanwhile, a Lifehack article by Robert Locke implored: \u201cGuess one reason why aliens do not want to visit planet Earth. An obvious one is that the whole planet is addicted to posting selfies on the Internet.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a fairly common refrain in these pieces that selfie takers are \u201cnarcissistic,\u201d despite the fact that a 2017 study from Brigham Young University indicated that\u2019s not generally true. As Alicia Eler points out in her new book \u201cSelfie Generation\u201d (Skyhorse Publishing), \u201cGenerally, it\u2019s men telling women that they are narcissists for selfie-ing.\u201d She further remarks that \u201cyoung women are simultaneously told that their self-worth depends on their appearance, but they are referred to as \u2018vain\u2019 and \u2018narcissistic\u2019 if they post selfies, which are all about appearance.\u201d<\/p>\n

When society is constantly telling women to make their faces look pretty with lotions, makeup and skin-care regimens, it shouldn\u2019t be shocking to anyone that women want to show off their faces when they feel they look pretty.<\/p>\n

And why shouldn\u2019t Kardashian be the one making all the money? It\u2019s her face that people want to see<\/p>\n

The only difference is that those images used to benefit (typically) the male artists or photographers capturing them. Women were supposed to be looked at but not in control of their own image or all the profits that came with it. Today, Richard Avedon is more famous than most of the models he shot. Leonardo da Vinci\u2019s name is better known than Lisa del Giocondo\u2019s (the supposed model for the Mona Lisa.) Female models might achieve a measure of fame in their own era, but it\u2019s the people capturing their images who are remembered.<\/p>\n

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