Male Gaze

Question 1

What are the 3 components of the male gaze?

Answer 1

1. Gender: Men look and women are looked at
2. Power: Lookers are empowered, looked at is powerless
3. Sexuality: looking is stimulant for sexual desire, being looked at stimulates others sexual desire

Question 2

Important ideas?

Answer 2

-Penetration and the like isn’t shown in manga(keeps work professional, allows reading on the way to work)

• settai/tsukiai: work gatherings where man would go to things like hostess clubs making sexual comments and looking but not going further
• women sexualized in industry, education and family
• Mostly innocent and for gags in children’s manga even if it does come from a place that acknowledges sexuality
• Machiko sensei is what Allison analyzed (female teacher getting into mishaps usually revealing her in some lewd way)

Question 3

3 comments of theory from allison?

Answer 3

1. Comments on gazing and technology
2. Bad to assume men are empowered by looking at women and women are disempowered. Also discredits power of women and that they look at men.
3. Foundation of male gaze may not apply to other cultures (cultures value sexuality differently than the west)