5x04 Female y male gaze

¿Existe el male gaze? La mirada masculina en el cine y la televisión influye a tal punto que llega a atormentarnos a muchas mujeres. Hace un tiempo que se habla del female gaze, esa mirada femenina que viene a cambiar todo. ¿Podrá conseguirlo?

Episode Transcript

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Men and women see the world withdifferent eyes, or at least that'
s what the feminist theory of fymailgase talks about, the counterpart to the
mail gales that patriarchy wants to imposeon us. Although the beginning of this
theory is more related to cinema andthe arts, we can apply it in
virtually any aspect of our life inchemical society. The femal gase is the

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answer to the term proposed by theplay Mullvey, which means male look and
represents not only the look of aheterosexual male spectator, but also the look
of the male character and the malecreator of the film. Mull Bay already
had Jeampole Sartre as his predecessor,who talks about the look in his work
" Being Illegated" According to him, the act of looking at another creates

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a subjective difference of power, whichis felt by the one who looks and
by the one who is looked at, who perceives himself as an object,
not as a human being. Theterm" murr" focused on cinema,
but it could also be said thatin art in general, contrary to what
many believe, is not used toprohibit sex, desires or fantasies, but
to show the woman away from movableobjectification. They present their analysis of visual

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pleasure and without the narrative, certainaspects of fetishism and voyeurism of the male
gaze, setting as an example inHitchcock' s indiscreet window and based on
Freud' s psychoanalysis theories and cantthe angles of the cameras, the narrative
decisions the props make manifest the womanas a spectacle to look at and sew.

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Unable to participate in the situation,The woman is used to have a
visual and erotic impact represented through hersexual characters and what makes her desirable,
but without relevance in history, basicallyin art, the woman is represented as
a mere object created for the pleasureof the heterosexual man. The theory of
the firmal Gates also has its strongwritings in. There' s no such

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thing yet. Questioning the female gazeon television Ketlin Benson alot tells us about
the lack of minority representation in theFemel gase, although the female gaze presumes
to speak from a universal perspective basedon a shared gender, tends to ignore
minorities and only represents white middle-class women. On the other hand,

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the director of photographs overwhelms the gayfemal for the under- representation of women
in technical areas with a domination ofthe middle- class white male in the
film industry. In Chickflix Anderstrike femelgas Natalie Perfetti Ots explains that the heterosexual
female look can be problematic as itincreases the male objectification. If men become

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sexual objects, we are not creatinggender equality, but we are changing their
position. There is progress towards equalitywhen men and women can move freely between
the position of subject and object.And Jessica Taylor, in her essay Romance
and the signature gas obscurin gendered Violencesin the twilet saga criticizes the emerging female

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look and how she interacts with romanceto portray violent male bodies as desirable,
reducing the threat posed by gender-based violence. If we distance mail gase
from cinema and use it as theideological basis of patriarchy the sociopolitical inequality of
women, a system of values ismaterialized in which the institutions that are created

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by men, among them cinema,obviously, but also advertising, fashion beauty,
unilaterally determine what is normal in society. This natural and normal order says
that men look at women and thatwomen are looked at. The reality is
that the media we have tells stories, and those stories are the ones that

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allow us to understand the world.That' s why it' s so
important to understand how we narrate theworld, from what look and where we
put people within those stories. Andthis not only includes women, as I
mentioned earlier, but also minorities fromthe LGBTQ community, people with racialized disabilities,
old obese people. What we haverepresented oppresses us by narrating from the

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gay Mail, we know what menexpect of us, what we have to
do to like them, for example, you will not see in a movie
or in a book narrated by aman, a woman with body beyo,
with stretch marks, with agne,in addition to the weight that patriarchal beauty
stereotypes have in the representation of women. We add how these characters are built,
telling us how men expect us toact like this the different archetypes of

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women desired by men, with exampleslike the Manick pick s Dream Girl,
among others. If we start lookingfor femal gas within art, we can
find more complex female characters, withlayers, with their own motivations, with
more complex objectives than simply being desiredby a man. And if we get
away from e- mail gase inour life, we probably realize that a

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lot of things we do because wehave so much you two this way of
looking at. A nice example ofthis is the case of Leandra Medin,
who in two thousand ten, moreor less, created her blog Man Repeller.
The name of this particular fashion blogcame from conversations with her friends who
told her that her personal style waslike giving men a fly. Basically this

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was because Leandra did not dress underthe precepts of e- mail gas,
but chose her looks to test hercreativity. Play and have fun. Getting
away from e- mail gase implies. This means that they judge you,
forget you, that you are notpart of society or that you end up
giving in and doing everything you canto get inside that look. In women,

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mail gase can lead to stress anxiety, obsession by trying to fit into
a scheme of what it is liketo be a woman, that perfect and
almost impossible look that can bring usserious self- esteem problems, because the
mail gase we are internalizing since childhood. When they tell you to put down
a few kilitos or that the babesdon' t sit with their legs open.
The reality is that it is verydifficult to get away from gay mail,

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not only because the whole society isconvinced that it is the right role
of women and to rethink everything isalways very painful and difficult, but also
because the world is made by men. For example, only 14 percent of
fashion brands are run by women,which means that many times so sexy and
so uncomfortable garments and similar numbers areput on in the beauty industry. Both

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are industries that are especially targeted atwomen, but are led by men.
In the end, we end upgoing around the same thing from different looks
and optics. Patriarchy imposes gender rolesand women want us to be passive and
submissive, always focused on pleasing men. That takes us away from our desires

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and our stories and forces us todevote our time, energy and money to
pleasing the straight white man. Ifyou kept thinking about which movies you could
watch with a slightly more feminine look, I have some examples. Black we
Dow, directed by Kage Chorland,is a great way to portray the Romanov
carving, the black widow and herstory, after having been brutally sexualized in

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all Avengers movies, because obviously ScarlatJohanson is very pretty and good from the
mail Wales was the only interesting thingto tell, to make the genre of
superheroes is a femal Gates in allrule portrait of a burning woman of Sellin
Siama, I don' t knowif it is pronounced like that. It
is a beautiful film that tells thestory of two women in 17th century France.

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I think it was Aman. It' s beautiful to talk about many
issues that don' t mess withwomen and it also has a beautiful perspective
on lesbian relationships without being hypersexualized,as it happens in mail gase. On
the side of the series, Ihave two Fliback by Phobe Walter Bridge,
who is also the protagonist of theFreeback series, breaks the fourth wall to

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tell the problems of women in their30s with all the mistakes and successes they
can have. He talks about life, death, friendship, love and sex
with incredible freshness and, finally,sex Education created by Lorinun, Although the
main character Sotis, who is ateenage male. He' s got a
lot of female characters with objective problemstories in life. It is also excellent

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to talk about minorities and also givesa very refreshing look at sex in general,
taking it out in many taboos andthat ideal as the pornoid of the
erotic that we have in our mind, which is also very mail gas.

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I hope you liked this episode.I actually learned a lot about gay email
and femail because it was a termI had heard on the Internet, but
I didn' t know it camefrom the movies. If you like it,
I kept listening, listen to previousseasons, listen to the next episodes.
We have a lot to analyze aboutthem. Don' t forget,

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this is an original Uicast production.