#male gaze
When I actually think about it I really have no other hobbies than the male gaze
krasstinly-deactivated20220201:
I feel like “romanticize your life” actually means “perform for an imaginary voyeur.” Men don’t do this shit.
You’re literally correct. Every iteration I’ve seen of someone “romanticizing” blah blah blah has been about skincare, diet, gaslighting themselves into being pleasant about something uncomfortable, etc
Or it’s about viewing your life as if it’s a film, focused on creating beautiful imagery for an external viewer, and that’s so…. unhealthy?
“Romanticizing my life by reading by candlelight in my silk nightgown” do you actually enjoy that? Or do you enjoy the image you think it’s creating? Do you enjoy the tableau that you can’t even see, but you imagine you must be creating for someone who isn’t even watching?
This post has made a lot of people very angry and that’s how I know it’s a good post and I’m right.
I wish this were a joke, but it sadly isn’t. You can add the comical difference between male and female Devaronian in star wars to the list.
“Dusting off the Male Gaze” by Yuko Shimizu for Chronicle of Higher Education. Published in their Women and Power in the Academy issue where multiple artists were asked to illustrate their tales on #metoo.
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acid tastes like male friends who stop talking to you after they get a love interest or they realize they will never have u as one.
‘is it inevitable, that I am the Object of affection?—
if so, I should rather be unloved, than reduced;
for love, however sweet, seems a paltry prize
for what indignities this gaze should subject me to.’
'object,’ - Megan’s Poetry #1282
So, are y'all bitching about Justice League’s Amazon’s or????
Need to reblog this because it’s a PERFECT Amazonian response.
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woman culture really is feeling like you’re you and also the you watching you
The pain of women turns them into kittens and rabbits and sunsets and sordid red satin goddesses, pales them and bloodies them and starves them, delivers them to death camps and sends locks of their hair to the stars. Men put them on trains and under them. Violence turns them celestial. Age turns them old. We can’t look away. We can’t stop imagining new ways for them to hurt.- Leslie Jamison, from “Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain”
The Woman I’ve Been Waiting For
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TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON:
This cartoon has four panels.
PANEL 1
A man and a woman stand on a fancy pedestrian bridge over a stream, holding hands and gazing into each other’s eyes. Both are smiling.
MAN: I’m so glad I found you. You’re the woman I’ve been waiting for! You’re always supportive, always cheerful.
PANEL 2
A closer shot of the two of them, walking while holding hands. They’re still looking fondly at each other.
MAN: You never think about your appearance or diet, yet you look like a model. You’ve got a career, but it never interferes with time for me.
PANEL 3
A long shot shows them walking side by side down a path in a park. He’s looking ahead, smiling as he talks; she’s turned to face him a bit, smiling, with an “explaining hand” gesture.
MAN: You insist on doing the cooking and my laundry. You’re eager to hear about all my hobbies..
WOMAN: But don’t forget, honey - I’m also imaginary.
PANEL 4
The same setting and shot as in the previous panel. The man has come to a stop and is looking down a bit, expression sad, one hand reaching out a bit as if to grab onto something that’s not there. He is completely alone.
MAN (in a thought balloon): I always forget that part.
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extremelyheteronormativepants:
The sign reads: “Because popular imaginaries shape the conceivable, it sure would be nice if comics could be a bit more #queerlikeme, and maybe less about pleasing the straight male gaze.”
The issue of representation in popular media is near and dear to me. Especially lacking, in my view, are representations of queer normalcy, or non-heteronormative characters which can’t be hastily summarized by their sexuality.
Gay marriages in comics are fine and all, but how about moving the focus to LGBTQ2S characters doing regular comic-book things, like repelling alien invasions? Ellis did it well in Stormwatch/The Authority, in which Midnighter and Apollo were major players whose sexuality was not used as a shortcut to character development.
And that was in the 1990s! Two decades ago!
So: LGBTQ2S characters? Yes please. Clichés? No thank you.
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the feminine urge to have a depression diagnosis and an unhealthy attachment to fleabag
“i’m not a religious person but i do sometimes think god made you for me” from normal people
get your eyes of me
insta- thejournalingrat
The thing about this is that sculptures like these in art history were for the male gaze. Photoshop a phone to it and suddenly she’s seen as vain and conceited. That’s why I’m 100% for selfie culture because apparently men can gawk at women but when we realize how beautiful we are we’re suddenly full of ourselves…“You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.” ― John Berger, Ways of Seeing
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