Male Gaze Theory

The male Gaze Theory

My Opinions and thoughts

Within the male gaze theory it’s mainly based on the way a men see women, how women see themselves and others. The whole concept of that perfect curve and body makes the women and the men attracted to the advert or the production.

The quote “Mulvey suggests that the audience view the films in two ways: voyeuristically and fetishistically. “  Suggests that when women wear seductive clothing such as lingerie and there are areas in a production where the camera has zoomed into a specific seductive area in a woman’s body would affect the woman and the man. In my opinion when these types of women are used within the production and you have low self-esteem, these types of women who you mainly look up to, but in my opinion I believe this would be cutting off the whole other type of women that are out there. These types of theories and production aspects used in a production could affect the woman’s mind. In my opinion it would put some women who are wider and larger confidence low, and also they would want to become them, these types of productions are the type of productions which make many teenager young go into bulimia, anorexia  and other eating disorders as they want to be like those females on the TV, as the teenager girls would want to attract the males which they like, so if they become like those women on the TV they would be able to attract them, as women do like to be chased. When girls want men to chase them, they mainly look up to these types of women on the media to get confidence. So in my opinion I find it irrelevant when they use women who are sexually attractive to persuade women to buy a product and also within a male’s production, as this would be offending many different types of women, including myself.

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Reference

(1) Google Images: Laura Mulvey-Male Gaze