Most men are natural voyeurs.
Most women prefer being
watched to watching others.
Which partly explains why men spend
fortunes on porn and women on cosmetics.
Suicide Girls
The Male Gaze Theory
in Teen Movies
A woman is always accompanied, except when alone,
and perhaps even then, by her own image of herself.
While she is walking across a room or weeping
at the death of her father, she can’t avoid
picturing herself walking or weeping.
Erotic Menage a trois
From earliest childhood she is taught
and persuaded to survey herself continually.
How she appears to others, particularly
how she appears to men, is crucially
important to measure her success in life.3
Open for Viewing
Object of Desire
Teenage Girls Are
Objects of Desire
The Male Gaze
& Capitalism
Most men are natural voyeurs.
Most women prefer being
watched to watching others.
Which partly explains why men spend
fortunes on porn and women on cosmetics.
Women Become Sexual Objects
Men look at women. Women watch
themselves being looked at.
This determines not only most
relationships between men and
women but also the relationship
of women to themselves.
The surveyor of woman in herself
is male, the surveyed female.
In this way she turns herself into
an object. Particularly a visual object.
Desire Becomes a Commodity
Not only does the male gaze, the consumer market
and our affluent society objectify female identity
into a sex object and commodity but she, herself,
objectifies her own self-image.
She is compelled to become a commodity
and object in her own eyes.
In more ways than one, it is like a slave
reproducing his or her own slavery.
In European high art the female nude is
eternally helpless, being displayed as
a public spectacle, often as a commissioned
portrait and painting by the spectator-owner.
She is often an object of the collective male gaze,
fully aware of her nudity as a spectacle.