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Can someone eli5 the male gaze to me? (hexbear.net)
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Is this a concept exclusive to film/art criticism or can it be applied to real life too? And if so, is it fundamentally different from the normal worrying about what people think of you/worrying about how you’re being perceived? Or is it sorta the same thing but from the angle of patriarchy? Or maybe something entirely different I’m not understanding?

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[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

as i understand it, it's when (usually visual but idk) media treats women as, fundamentally, objects for men to lust over, instead of as people with agency and motivations of their own

there's a lot of shit downstream that i'm not well versed in but i think that's the core of it. i don't see why it couldn't be used as a framework to criticize real life stuff