THE MALE GAZE=THE MALE TRUTH

The "Male Gaze." What is the male gaze? In my own words, I'll define it as looking onto a woman and getting satisfied by it. A man looks down onto a woman, and she is submissive to him; the same way a king looks down onto his people, and they are submissive to him. We experience the male gaze all the time. On television, we see women all the time, but we must ask ourselves, "Are these images from a male stand point or of a females?" Most definitely the gaze is from a man, and my evidence for this is because of the media. Almost every single commercial you see is made by a man. They know how men react, they want us to watch so they put a women in tight-short clothing and throw water on her. Even television is targeted for the male audience they want men to watch. Its as a tool for brainwashing, and it has worked for years.

In the past, artist use to draw women. Harmless you think, but no!

They make them unveil themselves and paint the women naked. They call it art, but in reality its a perversion, or a early form of pornography. Another way this male gaze is used today is in pornography. It is so similar to the example above in which the artist has the women looking directly at the viewers, same way in pornography the women looks at the camera man. The camera man and the artist use the same technique, they give the viewer a sense of visual pleasure. The artist paints with a brush, the camera man paints with his movements when he pans up or zooms in. Men can look at this with their lustful gaze, but so can women in their own way. According to Bell Hooks, the oppositional gaze is when women critique the films or images they see and not to accept them. This developed nowadays because people are learning more about women rights and are becoming more aware like myself of the male gaze and how men, at least in the majority run all types of media. This male gaze is used to oppress women and keep them below men and and keep them as slaves in our eyes or to be more technical, sex slaves. Similarly with the media, they say Muslims oppress women, well all I have to say about that is that people need to get their history strait and stop following what the media says. You can ask my wife yourself, do I oppress her? He have to stop this notion of following what we see and hear, but to learn how to oppose it or critique it ourselves using our logic and ask ourselves, "Why is this image the way it is?" or "Why am I receiving this message like this?"