Oh no, you guys, the media world is portraying women as attractive again, and that is called the "male gaze" or something, and everything is going back to how it was before the wokies took over.
RUUUUNNNN!!!!
Yes, the male gaze, also known as men being attracted to good-looking women and media showing us good-looking women.
For instance:
That would be the male gaze, which I'll let CNN define in a minute.
Here is an example of the anti-male gaze, which the woke crowd wanted us to continue with:
This is one of those, "Which way, Western man?" situations.
And CNN is kinda mad we are going with the male gaze, which portrays women as attractive.
But what is the male gaze, CNN?
'Most typically, the male gaze is about representing women in media solely to satisfy heterosexual men,' said Dr. Linda Tuncay Zayer, professor of marketing and John F. Smith, Jr. Chair in Business Administration at the Quinlan School of Business at Loyola University Chicago ...
If you are observing women in movies, TV, fashion, social media and marketing and they don't feel as fully materialized as their male counterparts, that is the male gaze.
'The woman's value is reduced in so far as existing for pleasure or basically an object,' Zayer said.
It's Bond girls. And a long, lingering shot panning up a woman's body in an advertisement for soda. It's when an action movie accessory is running through explosions in tiny shorts and flowing curled hair before collapsing helplessly in the hero's arms. And a social media star making a recipe while all dolled up and explaining her steps in a soft, sultry voice.
It wasn't always this way though. Things changed around 2015 or so.
As a child of the '90s and early 2000s, I grew up with my mother's and grandmother's generations' fight for legal and workplace equality helping shed social misogyny.
In the past decade in particular, I saw the evidence of progress in my media diet. The movies, shows, books and advertisements I consumed were increasingly giving women a seat at the table. Heroin chic fell away, and body positivity entered the fashion world. Stories about a woman stealing your man were traded for celebration of the 'girl's girl' who resisted the competition for men's attention.
But then something happened, and the male gaze began to coexist with this new diverse portrayal of the human experience. This is really bad, according to CNN -- possibly even worse than when the male gaze dominated media prior to the new millennium.
Was it around the 2024 presidential election? Or since the overturn of Roe v. Wade? Maybe when men's rights activists pushed back against #MeToo? Whatever the catalyst, a change in the political environment seemed to connect with a social change that brought back narrow, and at times constrictive, ideas of womanhood depicted in media.
The recent rise of weight loss medications coincided with social media influencers sharing ways to get smaller and no longer celebrating bodies of all sizes. Advertisements followed suit, making men's desire once again a dominating factor in how stories are told, and how women are portrayed.
Of course, they also mention Sydney Sweeney's ad campaign at American Eagle.
The male gaze, says CNN, "includes stories told about women in relation to a male character (think wife, daughter, victim) and media in which the camera angles and visual storytelling make the audience feel like they are viewing the women from a heterosexual male's perspective."
It's almost as if heterosexual males are half of the audience!
You might guess, as well, that CNN says the male gaze is "about power." It always comes back to being "about power." And as we all know, this is one of the main talking points of the woke mind virus: Western ideas like women being attractive and in good health are bad -- and they were created by white men -- so we must do away with them.
Sorry, CNN, Trump won, the culture is shifting back to normal, and there's nothing you and your lefty friends can do about it.
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