Why The Female Gaze Does Not Exist
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Why The Female Gaze Does Not Exist
These women have thoroughly internalized the male gaze, their to-be-looked-at-ness, and arrived at a place of incredible power — as objects. Their struggle, as evidenced by the ample time we spend with those who’ve “retired,” is figuring a sense of self outside of that objecthood.
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One might simplify this by saying: men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves. The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object – and most
... See moreJohn Berger • Ways of Seeing (Penguin Modern Classics)
One inheritance of living under the male gaze for centuries is that heterosexual women often look at other women the way a man would.