“In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female. The determining male gaze projects its fantasy onto the female figure which is styled accordingly.” (1992)
Laura Mulvey’s theory is that in the world we live in today, men have the pleasure to look at women and fantasize what they should look like.
A music video that helps explain this theory is Dizzy Rascal’s ‘Holiday’, in this music video, all women are young and in bikinis, this has a double standard as all the men are dressed up. Also, we never hear a females voice, this shows that women are not important, only her looks do.
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