Comment on What's wrong with the male gaze?
yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Sadly, the male gaze tends to fall straight into misogyny, specially into treating women like objects. This is why there’s something called the Sexy Lamp Test, it checks if removing a female character significantly changes the plot
realcaseyrollins 8 months ago
Would you say that sexual objectification of women in media is always misogynistic, and if so, sexual objectification of men is equally sexist, thus making all sexual media unethical?
yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
No, it’s not always misogynistic. I don’t subscribe to puritan views of avoiding sexual content, it just has to be written well
realcaseyrollins 8 months ago
So, the male gaze tends to treat women as purely sexual beings? That makes sense (after all this came to mind after I watched You Only Live Twice for the first time with my sister).
yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
A perfect example of a well written male gaze movie is How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)