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Swimming in Gendered Waters · Dec 28, 2025 · 22 min

How the male gaze controls media; performing femininity to satisfy men

Another SIGW episode!!!! Let’s gooo!!!! About the male gaze? So thrilling… Today is all about how popular media has structured our perspectives on gender. That is, imbalanced visual representations recurringly sexualise women, inscribing their sole value on their male counterparts. And in turn, we don’t get taught to harvest visual pleasure from non-feminine presences? Sad… Literature: “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” Laura Mulvey (1975); “Désirer la violence” Chloé Thibaud; “No validation masculine” Emma Barrabi; “Swedish cinemas take aim at gender bias with Bechdel test rating” The Guardian; “Male gaze, ce que voient les hommes”, “Female gaze, ce que vivent les femmes” Les couilles sur la table (Podcast).

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Another SIGW episode!!!! Let’s gooo!!!! About the male gaze? So thrilling… Today is all about how popular media has structured our perspectives on gender. That is, imbalanced visual representations recurringly sexualise women, inscribing their sole value on their male counterparts. And in turn, we don’t get taught to harvest visual pleasure from non-feminine presences? Sad…

Literature:

“Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” Laura Mulvey (1975); 

“Désirer la violence” Chloé Thibaud; 

“No validation masculine” Emma Barrabi; 

“Swedish cinemas take aim at gender bias with Bechdel test rating” The Guardian;  

“Male gaze, ce que voient les hommes”, “Female gaze, ce que vivent les femmes” Les couilles sur la table (Podcast).


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