John Berger Quotes
"By contrast, a women's presence expresses her own attitude to herself, and defines what can and cannot be done to her. Her presences is manifest in her gestures, voice, opinions, expressions, clothes, chosen surroundings, taste - indeed there is nothing she can do which does not contribute to her presence."
-Despite the fact that women are complex in many ways, they have a specific energy that they bring to a space. A woman is unique in nature and almost always attracts the gazes of men if she is appealing to their eye.
"But this has been at the cost of a woman's self-being split into two. A woman must continually watch herself. She is almost continually accompanied by her own image of herself."
This is true in most cases and after the male gaze is complete, he already has a character in mind of the observed from watch from every detail of the women that walked in. A women must express herself, and if quiet will be unheard.
Bell Hooks Quotes
"Patriarchy is a political-social system that insist that males are inherently dominating, superior to everything and everyone deemed weak, especially females."
-I think women are starting to break out of the system. There is already a female vice- president and many other high positions that have been occupied by women at a constant pace over the past few years.
"Keeping male and females from telling the truth about what happens to them in families is one way patriarchal culture is maintained."
When a child watches or hears about violence, they grow up thinking it is acceptable to keep up similar practices.
What is the Male Gaze? Female Gaze? Oppositional Gaze?
The female gaze looks to balance the man and the woman, making them equals in all areas. The oppositional gaze is a tool that black people use to disrupt the power dynamic that white cinema uses to perpetuate the Othering of blackness in media. According to feminist theory, the male gaze is a sexualized way of portraying women.
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