Adrian posted a link to an article a few weeks ago from the Guardian titled ‘When taking selfies in Trinidad, it’s what’s on the outside that matters‘ and it was a great article.

What I got most from this article is that Trinidadian women “generally have a healthier sense of body image” than Australian women.

“I felt like it”

“I was in a good mood.”

“I liked what I was wearing.”

“My make-up looked good.”

Are reason enough to take a selfie, and I think that is so great! If I took a selfie and used that for a caption, my Facebook ‘friends’ would either criticise me to the max for being self-centred or would praise me for being a brave women and seeing the beauty in myself because it’s such a rare thing to see. Is that ridiculous to anyone else?

Recently I’ve been watching HBO’s Girls and lead character Hannah is played by Lena Dunham and she is the most natural female character I’ve seen in a while and while Hannah has some deeply embed issues, Lena Dunham is incredible and is so comfortable with herself, and gee I envy her confidence and gee I wish everyone could share her self love.

Selfies shouldn’t be attacked about showing narcissism, because women and men deal with enough body shaming and beauty issues already… Rejoice in the fact that people find themselves attractive enough to take a photo.