Male gaze
why I no longer aspire to be the cool girl but instead a raging bitch
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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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The Impact of the Use of Social Media on Women and Girls - European Parliament Study
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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 particular
... 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.
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