Alexandria Scudder
6 March 2015
Entry 5
Music
Videos and the Female Gaze
This
week in our class discussion we discussed the female gaze. While looking up music videos in search for a
female gaze I constantly found videos portraying the male gaze instead. Seeing how many videos were geared toward the
male gaze instead of the female gaze was very surprising to me especially when
the song should have portrayed the female gaze.
The
music video I chose was As If by Sara Evans, which I found entertaining. The video showed Sara Evans and other women observing
men the way that they observe women on an everyday basis. Sara Evans picks out the “perfect man” and
the man has a perfect body, perfect hair, and is “domesticated”. I liked the way that the roles were reversed
in this music video because women are always shown vacuuming, cooking, etcetera
and finally a man was shown doing chores and being paraded around instead of a
woman. After showing the role reversal
of the man and the woman and reading the comments on the video it was
interesting to see how angry men were but if women every said anything about
being angry men constantly shut them down for “complaining”,
I totally agree with what you are saying. I also like how the music video shows the women and the mens roles reversed as men were doing the cleaning and the women were not doing anything. Men should start doing that more often and giving men a break!!!!
ReplyDeletegiving women a break^^^^
DeleteI think we all want the 'perfect man' but sadly there is no such thing and I think it's ridiculous that the media can depict what a perfect man is.
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