blackrain;c-9712483 said:
konceptjones;c-9711945 said:
Madame_CJSkywalker;c-9711862 said:
to clarify
male gaze refers to the way the media and visual arts depict the world and women from a masculine point of view and in terms of men's attitudes
it often depicts women are objects or commodities here for male consumption which is obviously problematic...for one, it fosters a since of entitlement
or its always buy what I'm selling to get the girl or keep a man
so what I mean by "free women from the male gaze" is to challenge the aforementioned narratives
that said, everyone wants to feel wanted/everyone has their preferences.... nothing wrong with that
the issue some women have with kdot is if this was his idea of empowering "natural" women as many are saying it was, was shallow and did little to challenge these narratives
rather than just dismiss the women who do choose to wear makeup or use IG filters or go underneath the knife as 'fake' , explore why they do it and who is influencing these trends
also you shouldn't or even have to shame one group of women to uplift another, especially when it comes to aesthetics
and I see the irony of the situation given lira galore starred in king kunta a year or so ago has been lost on you all
but again I see how both sides of the debate are blowing things out of proportion...
at the end of the day kdot is a 28, 29 yr old man who raps, expect less....at least he us trying
everyone else, kdot isn't above criticism and this idea ppl are trying to crucify kdot is a bit over dramatic
Then go after the media for it, not Kendrick Lamar. Maybe admonish the women in media that also push this supposed "male gaze" because, clearly, those women are traitors to women everywhere... right???
Naw, y'all muhfuckas ain't gonna do that. You're going to sit there in your chairs and complain on Twitter and Tumblr taking shots at easy targets instead of doing the hard work of creating the change.
They do do that though...they even have a term for it...apparently it's chicks they call "pick me's"...the female version of a simp who will show no shame in the shit they do for male approval.
You know the feminist ideals many of ya'll have problems with r a. aren't as bad as they seem on a basic level and 2. ya'll make your arguments really easy to counter because you approach them from the very place many women who deem themselves feminists often use as their own starting point. Many of ya'll are just as bad/annoying as the feminists you decry when these topics come up
Here's the ideology I have an issue with:
1. All sex is somehow rape, even when consensual and with married partners
2. The myth that women make only 70 cents to a man's dollar. This garbage was debunked by feminists yet it keeps being brought up as if it was a fact (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christina-hoff-sommers/wage-gap_b_2073804.html)
3. When both a man and woman are equally drunk, it it always the man's responsibility to not have sex otherwise he's raping the woman. Also, all drunk sex is rape and the woman is always the victim even if she's the aggressor and initiates sex.
4. Women are to only be praised, coddled, and comforted even for trivial, meaningless things.
5. Giving a woman a compliment while out and about is "street harassment" and a borderline criminal act.
By and large women have every right that men do and then some, they simply refuse to acknowledge this.
They also refuse to acknowledge that simply being women gives them assloads of advantages in society as well as legally.