• Phineaz@feddit.org
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    1 year ago

    I assumed that “he” is cheating on his partner with this girl. Like, it’s the same person, because this is the person he’s having an affair with.

      • ThotDragon@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        1 year ago

        It’s the same person at different stages of styling. They’re both the same level of artificial/natural, however you measure that.

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          To clarify: the right is the curls you create with heat, the left is after you carefully brush them out a bit so they appear more natural. So it’s a before (well, mid way) and after, left to right. Most people prefer the natural looking styling.

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      1 year ago

      I saw this a while ago on reddit, and the explanation in the comments was something about brushing the curls out for a more “natural” look, with the one on the right being worse for not doing it.

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    1 year ago

    I am a biological woman. I identify as such. I don’t know what the same person plus 30+ minutes with a curling iron has to do with cheating. Effort? Vanity? This is far, far beyond me somehow. I am also very old so there’s that.

    • tankplanker@lemmy.world
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      I think you helped me crack it, i think it’s saying that the person who looks like you but puts in more effort to their appearance on the regular is more attractive. That makes sense to me, and would be true in the main for most people, it’s one of the most common things said to people who are struggling to find partners.

      You could take negative connotations from that about that person being vain but really it should be on the cheater for being a fucking cheater.

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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        puts in more effort to their appearance on the regular

        Nah. My wife has naturally wavy hair. She goes to work with it blow-dried, flattened, and a little plain-looking. On weekends she does none of those things, and it looks gorgeous and wavy and bouncy. Maybe I just have a definite preference – Even Jen Psaki on the TV - gorgeous already - looks better in her other, more natural style, and she’s probably got advisors telling her to vamp it up.

        • RBWells@lemmy.world
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          I think partly this is because flattening the hair at home is difficult and you don’t get great results. I actually put some effort into my natural hair (gel, scrunch, diffuse dry) to get it to look good curly, and the only other way it looks really good is professional blowout to bouncy straight not swingy straight.

          Or maybe it’s because wavy hair rocks! I do think curly and wavy, kinky, any hair with texture is livelier than the smooth and straight hair. Like, curly hair is individual and straight hair is standardized.

      • garbagebagel@lemmy.world
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        I agree with you, but don’t like that the interpretation puts the onus on the person being cheated on. Like, people will cheat even if they’re with the most gorgeous, totally out of their league person. Cheating has nothing to do with how attractive or how attentive to themselves your partner is. If you’re a cheater, you’re gonna be a cheater.

        • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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          I actually think what you said is the real point of the image. To me they are saying that they will cheat with a girl that looks just like you, because that’s how guys be.

    • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
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      I am a biological woman. I identify as such.

      Do you mean a cis woman?

      Or are you trying to separate yourself from robot women?

  • MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca
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    He will cheat with a cheaper-looking, tackier wannabe of the girlfriend/spouse.

    The cheaper tackier girl had to try emulate the look of the original in order to attempt to be on the same league, which she’s never be.

    Since he’s not cheating with a “better version” of yourself, it’s a bit reassuring for a woman’s ego; it’s just “sex” and he’s not gonna leave you for that slut.

    The man’s still a stupid idiot for cheating though.

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    I think people are overthinking this. That’s justamente a variation of the “you vs the guy she told you don’t worry about”.

  • Cid Vicious@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I dunno anything about styling longer hair, but I’m going to guess that the tighter curls on the right look less messy. But it does seem like a pretty toxic attitude displayed.

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    My guess: Guys don’t give a fuck about who looks better. They will cheat on you with anyone, even if there is no perceivable difference between you and who they are cheating with. The point of cheating is to cheat.

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    I’m not gay and I do see a slight difference between the two, but the difference is pretty minimal IMHO. What this person sees, I have no clue. It’s significant for them, though.

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
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    Honestly it just looks like before sex hair and after sex hair. Or someone with straight hair immediately after curling it vs. 5 minutes later. So if he cheats on the somewhat touseled hair person with the I Just Did My Hair person, he’ll just end up with a somewhat touseled hair person again. Maybe even if he goes to coffee with the picture #2, when she leaves she will have the hair in the first image.