What on earth is wrong with bloody looking? It isn't touching, leering, exposing yourself to, getting an erection to and displaying ... it's looking. And women look at men and men look at women and men look at men and women look at women. Some even go so far as to admire the finer features of.
This bizarre hatred of physical form isn't western, but it is a perversion rooted in puritanism. The male gaze is a crock - a meaningless formulation trotted out to damn men whatever they do, conveniently ignoring to gaze appreciatively is what both genders do. A convenient stick... (if you'll forgive the allusion).
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Date: 2009-12-13 10:14 pm (UTC)This bizarre hatred of physical form isn't western, but it is a perversion rooted in puritanism. The male gaze is a crock - a meaningless formulation trotted out to damn men whatever they do, conveniently ignoring to gaze appreciatively is what both genders do. A convenient stick... (if you'll forgive the allusion).