Ep 116: Selfie Shame

10 Things To Tell You

Laura Tremaine

Society & Culture, Unknown, Personal Journals

4.7 • 930 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Now THIS is a topic I've been wanting to cover for a long time. Because whenever I do a social media challenge (like the currently running #OneDayMay) and I encourage people to post a selfie (as I often do), I scroll through tons of posts where women are APOLOGIZING for their self-portrait in the caption. There are many reasons both personal and cultural that we feel extra vulnerable about taking and sharing selfies on social media, but in this episode I’m talking about the three most common reasons I see: We’re unhappy with the way we look We feel like selfies are indulgent, narcissistic, and annoying We don’t mind being in photos, but we wish someone else was taking them I look at selfies from all kinds of angles in this episode, hoping that it leads away from selfie shame and into selfie empowerment. But I also want to talk about why we judge other people’s selfies, and my unpopular opinion about oversharing. FULL SHOW NOTES HERE. SPONSORS: Rothys. Go to Rothys.com/YOU to shop (and HERE is the style I chose for myself) Skillshare. Go to Skillshare.com/YOU for a free trial of premium membership * Thank you for listening to 10 Things To Tell You! Your ratings and shares really help grow the show. Follow @10ThingsToTellYou on IG Follow @10ThingsToTellYou on FB Follow @laura.tremaine on IG Follow @mslauratremaine on FB Sign Up for episode emails Join the 10 Things To Tell You Connection Group Buy Share Your Stuff. I'll Go First. by Laura Tremaine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And the I'm Laura Tremaine and I have 10 things to tell you and you have 10 things to tell.
0:28.0	This show is about connection with each other and with ourselves and the hope is that the things we talk about here will be fuel for better
0:36.7	conversations and a personal awareness.
0:40.5	This is an interactive podcast.
0:43.0	Each episode has a prompt and a topic that I want you to take to your journal,
0:48.0	text to your best friend, or answer on social media using the hashtag 10 things to tell you.
0:55.0	This is a show about digging deeper and sharing our stuff.
0:59.0	I'll go first.
1:02.0	Selfies. First.
1:03.0	Selfies.
1:05.0	Love them or hate them.
1:07.0	Most people feel some kind of way
1:12.0	about not only taking but especially sharing photos of themselves that they took themselves.
1:22.0	And we're going to talk about selfies today. that they took themselves.
1:25.0	And we're going to talk about selfies today. I've been meaning to talk about this for years actually,
1:30.0	not just selfies in general, but selfie shame.
1:34.4	And why so many of us have such complicated feelings
1:40.6	around these silly photos. I've wanted to talk about it for years because for
1:49.2	the entire length of time that I have hosted online challenges, specifically One Day H.H., which is a
1:58.2	social media challenge I've hosted for almost a decade now, where the challenge is to capture a day in your life
2:06.4	hour by hour. Just one day what a normal day looks like for you. I've hosted this for a long time, it's always in the fall,
2:15.4	and while the rules are pretty loose around one day,
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