MALE GAZE

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WOMEN
Cornell Student Delivers Thesis In Underwear After Professor Questions Her Outfit
By Alanna Vagianos
A group of students defended the professor, writing that she was "noting the importance of professionalism."
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WOMEN
Women Are Describing Themselves As A Male Writer Would, And It’s Brilliant
By Elyse Wanshel
A Twitter challenge that puts the male gaze in reverse has become delightfully feminist.
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CULTURE & ARTS
Sports Illustrated Isn't Adapting To The #MeToo Era. It's Co-Opting It For Profit.
By Emma Gray
The magazine that monetized the male gaze for 50-plus years now wants to have it both ways.
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WOMEN
'Pretty Privilege,' Where?
By Dope Plain Jane, Contributor
I'm a Plain Jane brimming with dopeness kind of paradox!
Writers are wrong to assume the male gaze affords privileges to "pretty" women.
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How Women Are Enjoying Their Own Sexual Renaissance
By Pamela Madsen, Contributor
Sexuality and RelationshipInternationally Known Sex Educator f...
Women learn about sex through the eyes of the world around them. They learn to see themselves through the desires of men and popular culture. Women grow up watching the story of sexuality being retold again and again through the eyes of the outsider instead of through their own bodies.
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MEDIA
Dear Sexist Fox News Commentators, Our Daughters Are Watching
By Suzanne Brier, Psychology & Creative Writing B.A., Contributor
Blogger, The Huffington Post
"This overt sexism is detrimental and destructive."
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POLITICS
Come On, Bill. Enough Of The Male Gaze Already
By Renee Roederer, Contributor
Organizer of Michigan Nones and Dones
On Tuesday night, President Bill Clinton took the stage at the Democratic National Convention to break new ground. He endorsed
WOMEN
The Real Reason Women Like to Look Sexy
By Quora, Contributor
The best answer to any question
It's probably not the fact that you're looking at her, but *how* you're looking at her, that offends. Maybe your body language
CULTURE & ARTS
(R)evolution in Berlin: Brian Tennessee Claflin's Inner Gaze at SomoS
By Lisa Paul Streitfeld, Ph.D., Contributor
Cultural Critic/Kultureindustrie Theorist
Hello...The only word spoken in a five-stage immersion into the inner world of Brian Tennessee Claflin echoes through The Five Senses at SomoS.
Phoebe Mills
ARTS & CULTURE
The All-Too-Short History Of Women Artists Painting Naked Men
By Priscilla Frank
Or, why art history needs more women painters and nude dudes.
COLLEGE
Am I a Woman?
By Bianca Hayes, Contributor
Multimedia Journalist/Communicator
I am a pretty happy individual, but I am fatigued when facing the reality that although I am comfortable with myself, my womanhood will always be defined in relation to men.
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WOMEN
Skinny Women Are Better, Says Douchey Article No One Asked For
By Jessica Samakow
A website dedicated to asking men's opinions deemed this "trending news."
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WOMEN
The Female Gaze Is Real In ‘Magic Mike XXL’
By Nina Friend
"I don’t think that I’ve seen a big screen movie that focuses on female pleasure…ever."
CRIME
Hyper-Masculinity, Twin Peaks, & Gendered Violence
By Warren J. Blumenfeld, Contributor
Social Justice writer, educator, and speaker
While is it common knowledge that dogs, in particular male dogs, urine scent mark their territories, human males often mark their territories in other forms more noxious and poisonous than urine.
WOMEN
'Fifty Shades Of Grey' Proves Female Sexuality Is Still The Ultimate American Taboo
By Amanda Scherker
Hollywood has long been an overwhelmingly male-dominated industry. That means that to a large extent, movies have been made
ENTERTAINMENT
The Bachelor, Shirtless Men, And the Dawn Of the Female Gaze
By Nikki Gloudeman, Contributor
The Establishment Editorial Director
The show is a refreshing change of pace from a television landscape predominantly focused on sexually objectified women. In fact, this ostensibly silly reality TV show can be seen as a key player in a larger cultural movement to embrace a powerful, infrequently represented concept: the female gaze.
WOMEN
Obstructing the Male Gaze in a Gaze-Dependent Culture
By Maria X. Liu, Contributor
Writer
Instead of naturally objectifying ourselves because it's expected, let's actively work on encouraging contributions, insights, ideas and voices.
WOMEN
The Sexual Violence of Non-consensual Nudity
By Jenny Trout, Contributor
Writer, blogger
We've become a society that feels entitled to the nudity of others; consent is not required, just as long as we get our fill of flesh.
WOMEN
No, Thought Catalog, My Short Hair Cut Still Isn't the Same as Rape
By Kelsey Bain, Contributor
Writer and creator of NOLAfeminizer.com
In a culture where women's bodies are constantly objectified, where men such as yourself seem to think that they have some kind of claim over them, a post such as this only serves to further the idea that consent is some silly slogan those "crazy feminists" throw around, rather than something that is essential for safe and healthy sexual encounters.
WOMEN
Sexual Harassment: It's Not Cute
By Lea Grover, Contributor
Writer and toddler-wrangler at Becoming SuperMommy
If I'd made a scene, I would have been just another "crazy b*tch," and he would have brushed me off that way. If I'd asked him if he'd have harassed me if I was with my children, I'd be playing into the idea that women are somehow only people if they're wives or mothers.
MEDIA
Why Is Gaming Today So Insufferable, and How Can We Fix It?
By Noah Baron, Contributor
Civil Rights Attorney
Games have the potentiality to advance empathy and social justice -- but they haven't.
WOMEN
This Powerful Indian Ad Turns The Leering Male Gaze Back On Men
By Alanna Vagianos
Judging from this new ad, men are made just as uncomfortable by leering stares as women are. Indian film school Whistling
WOMEN
'CEOs Gone Wild': What We Talk About When We Talk About Marissa Mayer's Vogue Shoot
By Sheila Moeschen, Contributor
Boston-based writer, comedy and music junky
The image is sex. It is a nod to Lolita, to American Beauty, to the thousand-and-one images of women handed down through film, television and advertising.
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