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   male gaze

   noun

   • 1. the perspective of a notionally typical heterosexual man considered as embodied in the audience or intended audience for films and other visual media, characterized by a tendency to objectify or sexualize women: "it's because of the male gaze that female characters are regularly eroticized"

   Word Origin 1975: coined by the British film critic Laura Mulvey to describe a concept in film theory.

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