• Agent641@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I think it’s because men are generally very indifferent to taking photos of themselves that they never just do random selfies or take pictures with each other, and thus have something to choose from. Like, women seem to love taking pictures together with their friends, before going out, while out, or after getting home. It’s fun for them. But have you ever seen a group of fellas getting ready to go out, and they are like “Omg guys we look so pretty, let’s get some cute selfies together before we go out! Okay let’s do a serious one, then a bunch of silly ones!” Women seem to take a lot of photos just for the sake of having the photo of themselves. Which is quite nice, really, they are having fun and taking pride in themselves. They also practise a lot, so they end up being pretty good at getting a nice photo with good lighting, angle ect. But fellas only seem to take photos of each other or themselves if they are showing off something they acquired (fish, motorcycle, car, woman).

    So when choosing photos, they have a lot slimmer pickings. There’s the fish one, there’s the photo they took with their ex, and there’s the one of them sitting on the motorbike with the helmet on. Then they try to do a selfie but they have no idea how to do a good selfie so they end up under flourescent lights against a white wall looking like a fucking Harkonen and get demoralised, so they use the fish one.