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I'm sure the female gaze exists, but it's worth considering that straight men often look attractive and even seek to attract women to impress other straight men
by maxbond 4y ago
I'm sure the female gaze exists, but it's worth considering that straight men often look attractive and even seek to attract women to impress other straight men (so sometimes the "dudes at the gym" are really subject to a weird inverted male gaze), and reality TV shows are so distorted and deceptively edited and we really can't cite them uncritically.
- ablatt89 4y agoAnd women use makeup and look good to attract men, and there's no shame in it. I don't think there's any shame in attempting to look attractive, as if it's shallow. But that's aside the point, being that there's some implication that women don't objectify men via some "gaze" when clearly, they do. The representation of female attraction to men is done in different formats.
- Manuel_D 4y agoWomen also definitely try to impress other women via the status of their mates. The conversation about male vs. female gaze isn't about who's gazing (both are) but rather what they're looking for when they gaze at the other sex.