Coming up in London this week is an exhibition called The Naked Muse. Pictures of naked men are usually of interest to me, so I thought I’d find out a bit more about it. Full details of the exhibition, featuring black and white photos of men poets in the nuddy, and the calendar to go [...]
Posts Tagged ‘objectification’
The Naked Muse
Posted: February 21, 2012 in gaze theory, Mark Simpson, metrosexuality, UncategorizedTags: gaze theory, Man as object, Mark Simpson, masculinities, metrosexuality, muse, objectification, the female gaze
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OBJECTIFY THIS
Posted: February 8, 2012 in Fashion, Feminism, gaze theory, Gender Violence, Masculinities, metrosexuality, UncategorizedTags: david beckham, Gender violence, Mark Simpson, men, metrosexuality, objectification, Rape culture, Women
I had the beginnings of a twitter argument last night, on a subject that is dear to my heart: Objectification. @BigdaddyKeltik who is a trans man and a feminist said: * ‘Objectifying women = rape culture’. * @MILLIMETREMUSIC not puritans, feminists. Objectifying women = rape culture.— Keltik ಠ_ಠ (@BigDaddyKeltik) February 07, 2012 * I find [...]
Miss Representation? How feminism misrepresents ‘objectification’
Posted: October 25, 2011 in Feminism, UncategorizedTags: feminism, metrosexuality, Miss Representation, objectification
‘Miss Representation is a new documentary about the relationship between the representation of women in the media and political office’ http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/10/20/socimages-contributor-caroline-heldman-in-the-new-documentary-miss-representation/ The trailer, which includes some ‘expert’ women talking to camera and some young women in group interview situations, as well as some clips from news programming, is very clear in its message. These quotes [...]
The Tyranny of Beauty
Posted: April 29, 2011 in metrosexuality, Porn, SpornoTags: homogeniety, metrosexuality, objectification, porn, sporno
Can you have beautiful buff boy fatigue? Beautiful, buff, hairless chest, pretty young white boy fatigue? Beautiful, buff, hairless chest, a hint of sensitivity in the expression, pretty young white boy fatigue? Beautiful buff, hairless chest, a hint of sensitivity in the expression, homogenous homoerotics pretty young white boy fatigue? Beautiful buff, hairless chest, a [...]
Objectification 1970s Style
Posted: April 22, 2011 in Feminism, UncategorizedTags: feminism, misandry, objectification
I am going to show my age here, but I remember this grafitti. It could be that the photo was in a feminist journal/book, a few years after the actual ad came out so I may not be quite as old as that Fiat Palio. But this is definitely a snapshot of the 1970s feminism [...]
Crushed! Women no longer centre of attention shocker…
Posted: April 21, 2011 in Blogging, Desire, Feminism, Identity, Masculinities, metrosexuality, Porn, UncategorizedTags: feminism, gay porn, Mark Simpson, metrosexuality, objectification, porn, Tubecrush
Tube Crush seems so inevitable, I am kind of surprised it didn’t happen sooner. The website, http://www.tubecrush.net/ set up recently by a group of friends (men and women), is a new online hit. People are asked to send in photos of hot men they have spotted on London’s Underground system, that they have taken surreptitiously [...]
Dead Men Don’t Answer Back
Posted: February 7, 2011 in Blogging, Fashion, metrosexuality, UncategorizedTags: advertising, men, objectification, Women
http://toomuchtosayformyself.com/2011/01/31/advertising-misogyny/ I have been involved in a discussion about objectification, with feminists at the blog cited above. The feminist blogger has presented the subject as being about objectification of women, particularly in advertising. I have tried to open up the debate to consider the objectification of men in visual culture, as well. Some of the [...]
