#seflie - What's With this Super-Vain Selfie Culture?

Walking around at school, at the store, the mall, I  have noticed an increasing amount of people whip out their phones, front-camera on, and snap a picture of their own face. Just like that. And in public! But no, it doesn't end there. They always proceeded to either post the selfie or complain about it. At that point, I just lose my shit. Oh dear God, no. Not another selfie. My generation is so selfish and disgusting. How dare they. How dare they admire their own faces and have the gall to love themselves. And then to go and flaunt that photo on social media? It's absolutely repulsive.

I take selfies with my cat a lot.

If you can't tell, I'll spell out what's going on here: S-A-R-C-A-S-M

I fully embrace selfie culture. Celebrating self-confidence is powerful. It enables us to appreciate ourselves more, which in turn can empower the individual. Face it, confidence is like the opposite of Harry's invisibility cloak. It makes you stand out in a good way. When I feel good about myself, I feel invincible. When I feel invincible, good things happen. (I'm not saying invincible like Sonic when he gets those spinning sparkles around him. But also kind of like that because sparkles are great.) I think seflies are great.

Admittedly, that was not always the case. Like most millennials, I went through that phase of "I'm not like my peers. I'm mature and cool." I also hated by nose and thick eyebrows (and then people said I have strong eyebrow game, which is a great compliment, so thanks!) I'm pretty much over all that, now. Hell, I'll take a thousand selfies. I'll admit that there are selfies saved in my image galleries, even the awful ones.

Reasons selfies are great:

• Body positivity
• Boost your self-confidence
• Stick it to those companies that try to leech off your insecurities
• Represent yourself
• Allow you to support your peers by complimenting them on their confidence and lovely features
• Promote self-love with conscious effort 

Don't be embarrassed to take selfies. Make whatever expression you want, because, believe it or not, it's actually your face. Your mind controls those muscles. So don't be afraid to duck-face it out or strike that weird pose guys do in their selfies. Don't read those high-and-mighty articles punched out by crusty Gen-Xers. (Ironically it seems that their favorite topic of criticism is the generation they raised.)

A selfie I took a couple days ago. 

I love selfies. I love reading captions that say "I felt pretty today~" or "Bitch, I'm flawless." Hell yeah. You know you're pretty. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Don't let anyone tell you that you aren't. That includes those magazines.

Plus, we're hardly the first generation to like having pictures of ourselves. As that one tumblr post (that I tried to look for but can't find right now) points out, renaissance portraits are just glorified selfies. Except they had to stand in place for hours and pay tons of money for them. Yeah, who's conceited now?

(That being said, selfies are sometimes commandeered by fetishists and other awful people, so be careful what you put out there!)

What are you throughts on selfies? Do you take selfies, like selfies, share selfies? Have any criticism of selfies?