article: After years of progress on gender, the male gaze is back

[MatureDJ]

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/11/health/male-gaze-wellness

 

[dk1990S111]

Gotta be subscribed

 

[BaronOfHair]

It's back in THE MAINSTREAM, kinda sorta, in the form of the entire planet ogling Sydney Sweeney: Beautiful, scantily clad lasses have remained omnipresent on Instagram and OF, even at the height of MeToo

We may be going through a cycle similar to the one our civilization experienced as The 80s(A decade where mainstream culture largely went family-friendly, on the heels of an era in which Deep Throat and Behind The Green Door received wide-spread theatrical release)wound down...

Slowly but surely, T&A returned to prominence as we got deeper into The 90s, when Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit Edition became a more pervasive cultural presence, and Victoria's Secret, Baywatch, and ads such as these

were venerated, rather than triggering aneurysms in the heads of yahoos like Babs Bush and Tipper Gore. Who, only about 12 years earlier, led a crusade to rid the airwaves of Prince and Sheena Easton

 

[inquisitor]

Personally? Lame marketing trick (arising out of abusing feminist theory) because companies are losing profits, the media is losing subscribers, and consumers are actually becoming smarter with their choices. The "male gaze", a simple term for an action that's been done by men and women alike since the dawn of time, seems just made, or manufactured, for the virality of news articles and advertisements and related movies that the newsroom/corporation want you to watch.

I mean please, no one can buy in these stocked department stores even if all clothes are already on 70% sale, because the wealthy have abused their motives on capitalist efficiency and are now feeling the slowing down of revenue. Just forgetting how too much supply leads to little to no demand.

We're being sold a term, and dictated a term, supposedly about who we are. I just don't buy it.

 

[Divorced w 3]

Nature is healing

 

[BaronOfHair]

Nature is healing

Much as I hope this is so, this "return of The Male Gaze" the article bemoans refers almost exclusively to Sydney Sweeney's rise to fame, while ignoring a couple of key facts: She remains an outlier in modern Hollywood... Androgyny/outright mannishness still remains rampant among the latest crop of actresses Hollywood's trying to peddle as sex symbols

We're hardly out of the woods just yet

 

[taiyuu_otoko]

Who cares two fvcks what CNN thinks?

Fvck is wrong with you people...

 

[Barrister]

Yeah - the fact it is a CNN article tells you everything you need to know without even clicking on it. Some type of lamenting "toxic masculinity" I am sure is where this author's head is at. Lamenting everything that is natural for their perverse "strong female" bologna. No thanks.

 

[BaronOfHair]

Yeah - the fact it is a CNN article tells you everything you need to know without even clicking on it. Some type of lamenting "toxic masculinity" I am sure is where this author's head is at

At most points in history, everyone thinks their "side" is getting clobbered by The Evil Overlords who secretly rule the planet. We've been through something similar before

Yet the perspective offered at 1:27-1:50

Clearly WAS NOT universal

Rhyme And Unreason

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-11-28-vw-5048-story.html Excerpt: "NEW YORK — The “Museum of Modern Male Art” in the offices of Esquire magazine, features neatly mounted trout and salmon flies, spoked wheel covers, an electric drill, billiard balls and a martini glass. Back in...

www.sosuave.net

Many found the "backlash" against Feminism Susan Faludi charged The 80s with to be an illusion

 

[BackInTheGame78]

Who cares?

 

[BaronOfHair]

Who cares?

It's a more original topic of conversation than having yet another stale debate over which specific season The Simpsons went downhill