The Male Gaze

[Koopaul]

This topic started out about whether or not its wrong to sexualize women in the media. All other sexist issues do not comply.

They're all part of the same thing. You can't take one sexist thing away from sexism as a whole, because it's part of an institutional system.

What you're basically saying, yet again is "I enjoy it, therefore it's okay".

I see it as harmless as a big fat character in a movie farting. Tasteless, yes. Insulting to fat people, maybe. Directly affects people in the real world, no.

Does the male gaze change how men in society treat women?

Or is this about how women are treated in fiction... who cares? Its not real. As long as we are not treating women like objects in the real world I don't see the problem.

Wait. Masturbation. Women are objects of man's desire in our fantasies. Think about it. Straight men here, I ask you, when you masterbate, do you think about the women as a person? Or do you just think about their body?

Does that mean every man who masterbates to the imagery of women are sexist?

I have a feeling I just started something I'm going to regret...