Female Gaze

Kristen Butler

March 5, 2015

Blog Post #6

Female Gaze

            This week in class we discussed male and female gaze. When looking through many music videos online to post about female gaze it was very difficult to find since most videos focus on the male gaze. While watching these videos, the men were mostly recognized by the attractiveness of their faces or their abs. However if you are to watch a video that goes along with male gaze, you will see a women exposed in every way possible. There was not one video I saw of a man dancing around almost naked being touched by a woman. Many of the music videos produced by male singers are absolutely disgusting and completely degraded to females.

            The video that I chose to share was “Love Story” by Taylor Swift. In this song she is simply singing about how she wants him to fall in love with her. It in no way degrades the man to be a sex symbol. The man in her video is very attractive but is fully dressed in a suit. The only part of his body to be seen is his face. I think that for the most part, Taylor Swift’s music videos do a really good job at showing female gaze, since she sings about her own love life it makes it a lot easier for her to put these dreamy men in her videos.

            This week in class we talked a lot about how, on a woman any part of their body can be sexualized. It does not even need to be a part of their body that people would usually see as sexual, nowadays even something as simple as an eye brow is seen as something sexual. I believe that this results in producers of the videos to go to extreme measures to make the “sexual body parts” appear even more sexual.