best part of "male gaze" analysis is how it sacrifices existence of gay men, women who lust after women, etc. to use "male" as a snarl word
i'm trying to complicate something the simplicity of which in popular discourse i consider harmful
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it's definitely a bad idea from a lot of angles, but occasionally i have an attack of principles over expediency
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man no, you are trying to intellectualize the wrong goddamn end of a provable phenomenon with a demonstrable effect.
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after the night i had i do not have the energy to sugar coat this. if you wanna call it the "patriarchally normative gaze" fine
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i'd be delighted. i'm not disputing the phenomenon. i'm saying the label we put on it matters, which doesn't seem ridic.
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it's pretty ridiculous and pedantic to focus on the lack of semantical wokeness of such a well studied phenomenon, honestly.
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okay
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