On the latter paragraph - I've always found that weird and irritating. Like, I just don't take photos of myself, most of the time. Even when in front of the Eiffel Tower recently, including myself in the photos was secondary to trying to get the best shot of the damn thing...
But almost every woman I've been with, and far too many men, spend almost the entire time either taking selfies, or demanding I take photos of (and more occasionally with) them. It... Really annoys me. And I always think less of them afterwards...
My father is one of the worst, for this, though, so it's definitely not just a woman thing. Perhaps that's played into me going the other direction, though...
I've got 4 billion pictures of myself as a child, in various sizes, because my mother could not stop taking pictures. When she died, me and my grandmother had to spent plural days working all day going through legitimately 10s of thousands of photos to see if there were any of real value of relatives or the like (spoiler, not many but enough to justify doing it).
On the other hand, my children will need a sketch artist if they ever get stolen. My social medias use the same picture of me from halloween over a decade ago. I cannot fathom ever even thinking of taking a picture in a moment, let alone of people.
But I've been sitting with women in the past who were responding to their deluge of Snapchat messages and they are taking unique selfies for each one. Dozens upon dozens of faces being made in front of me. This is when they weren't opening an archive filled with thousands more to pull from.
On the latter paragraph - I've always found that weird and irritating. Like, I just don't take photos of myself, most of the time. Even when in front of the Eiffel Tower recently, including myself in the photos was secondary to trying to get the best shot of the damn thing...
But almost every woman I've been with, and far too many men, spend almost the entire time either taking selfies, or demanding I take photos of (and more occasionally with) them. It... Really annoys me. And I always think less of them afterwards...
My father is one of the worst, for this, though, so it's definitely not just a woman thing. Perhaps that's played into me going the other direction, though...
I've got 4 billion pictures of myself as a child, in various sizes, because my mother could not stop taking pictures. When she died, me and my grandmother had to spent plural days working all day going through legitimately 10s of thousands of photos to see if there were any of real value of relatives or the like (spoiler, not many but enough to justify doing it).
On the other hand, my children will need a sketch artist if they ever get stolen. My social medias use the same picture of me from halloween over a decade ago. I cannot fathom ever even thinking of taking a picture in a moment, let alone of people.
But I've been sitting with women in the past who were responding to their deluge of Snapchat messages and they are taking unique selfies for each one. Dozens upon dozens of faces being made in front of me. This is when they weren't opening an archive filled with thousands more to pull from.
Truly I do not get it.