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Just FYI it stops. When you are over 40. It's like turning off a button. I used to feel this male gaze and feel like you, overwhelmed by it, but of course got used to it. Like every women does, and in fact turned it to my benefit at some point. Now nearing middle age, I have also felt a bit confused on how it just stops once you reach a certain age.
The Male Gaze - I'm so Tired whenth3bowbreaks 2025
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The term was popularized, fifty years ago, by the British film theorist Laura Mulvey, who wrote, in a 1973 essay called “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” of how the “male gaze projects its fantasy onto the female figure, which is styled accordingly.”
The Invention of “the Male Gaze” Lauren Michele Jackson 2023
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On one level, Vertigo is a clever story about the factuality of the unrelenting male gaze that dominates and dictates both our shared collective reality and the majority of the narratives we as a species create and willingly consume, but it should also be viewed as a clever deconstruction of it.
Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo’: The Unrelenting Male Gaze that Blurs the Lines Between Possession and Obsession • Cinephilia & Beyond cinephiliabeyond 2024
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