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You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, you put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting Vanity, thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for your own pleasure.
The real function of the mirror was otherwise. It was to make the woman connive in treating herself as, first and foremost, a sight.
John Berger • Ways of Seeing
“It seems that punishing women is the favorite pastime of poets. As if there could be no story unless we crawl around crying…”
-Madeline Miller, Circe
Women dress for women and secretly want the male gaze
The longer I live, the more it seems like outfits at work and in life are for female approval rather than for myself or some misplaced desire to get male approval. So tiring. Imagine how much money women would save if not for this thing we impose on each other.
Separately, women seem to want the m
... See moreOne inheritance of living under the male gaze for centuries is that heterosexual women often look at other women the way a man would.