"As the object of the male gaze, laughing loudly or hysterically crosses over into the disagreeable notion of making a spectacle."
From the "giggling schoolgirl" to "making a spectacle of oneself" - women's laughter as a disruption of patriarchyhttps://overland.org.au/2017/07/women-laughing-transgression-and-collective-power/ …
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(crying also accomplishes this, esp if the scene of crying is dinner party to which Important People have been invited)
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from article: "Men, I learned somewhat later in life, ‘exposed themselves,’ but that operation was quite deliberate and circumscribed."
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The sound of female laughter I was raised to find an affront to social respectability. I live to read articles like this. Thank you.
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