When discussing the concept of gaze in media studies a certain Margaret Atwood quote comes to mind. The quote is from her book The Robber Bride and is thought provoking and perhaps in some ways self-aware. It reads as follows,<\/p>\n
\u201cMale fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it’s all a male fantasy: that you’re strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren’t catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you’re unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.\u201d<\/p>\n
This quote speaks to the pervasive nature of, in this case, the heterosexual male gaze in which a woman must continually exist as an object of male desire. It also speaks to the concept of an internalized male gaze. In which a woman spends so much time surrounded by these narrow depictions of women wherein the woman always exists to some degree as an object of desire, that she begins to internalize it. The following blog post goes into greater detail on the concept as well as including a reference to the above quote. I recommend reading it to better understand the concept as it articulates it a bit better than I am able to.<\/p>\n
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