You looking at Me? Seeing beyond the Gaze

Ilenny Nunez

Professor Santos

Blog Post #6

March 6, 2015

           

You looking at Me?

Seeing beyond the Gaze

            This was one of the articles that we discussed in class this week. This reading mentions the female gaze which I don’t really think it exist because although it might empower us they always find something negative in it so that they judgments can be made against women in one way or the other.

            In this reading there was a quote that my group had to discussed in class; the quote said “Indeed, one could reasonably argue that “pleasure” has become the new catchword of feminist cultural theory in an attempt to displace the emphasis on negative and oppressive images and construct instead a discourse that centers on the liberatory possibilities of female viewing practices and pleasures ( pg 89)”. When we discussed this quote we said that we agreed with the term that pleasure now has kind of this negative meaning when it comes to women sometimes. Also we talked about how this pleasure that maybe women have to create on the audience such as men should be more something that women should feel for themselves. This idea made us think about Kim Kardashian and we said that we understand that maybe she does this poses and breaking the internet because she is in the spot light and she’s always wanting attention, but at the same time we said that maybe she does it because she loves her body and feels sexy in herself and this might be a good reason why she always requiring attention.

Finally this thought made me think that although I don’t agree with a lot of her actions by the way she portrays herself as women sometimes; I also have to say that I live the fact that she feels sexy inside of her that she is that one that wants to feel that pleasure for herself that is not much about making a men or someone else feeling pleasure by her actions. I personally think that this should happen more often that women are the one that feel pleasure for themselves.