In bringing many perspectives and subjectivities to
the sexualized male body this exhibition questions a masculinity that upholds and is controlled by the idea of the phallus.
In a text accompanying the show, they argue that if the AIDS crisis, which was at its peak during the six years Rosenberg worked on the series, «is not a subject of the work, it is an implicit and important cultural and historical lens through which to consider a series of photographs depicting
the sexualized male body as a site of pleasure.»
But even if
sexualized male NPCs were more prevalent, equal opportunity sexual objectification is still not the solution to this problem, especially considering the existing power differential between men and women in our society.
Not exact matches
Male - dominated management teams have been found to tolerate, sanction, or even expect
sexualized treatment of workers, which can lead to a culture of complicity.
To be clear, we are okay with naked women, we just aren't okay with them when they are not being
sexualized for the
male gaze.
It was tough, because while director Tom Dey — he of the execrable Failure to Launch, though to be fair also of the pretty funny Shanghai Noon — has no problem
sexualizing his female canine actors in a movie for kids and doesn't think there's anything weird about that, he doesn't realize that he could have done the same for his
male human actors without it being weird: just let the camera linger for a moment or two.
Something intrusive about this
male presence,
sexualizing a moment that ought to feel untethered from time.
Red Sparrow pays lip service to equality, with a moment of full - frontal
male nudity — much briefer and explicitly not
sexualized, unlike Dominika's multiple moments of nudity — and by giving her a sex partner of her choosing, CIA agent Nate Nash (Joel Edgerton).
Usually, when we talk about the
male gaze, we talk about it in terms of objectifying or
sexualizing women.
When women are used as
sexualized experience point dispensers, the sexual scenarios are themselves a reward designed to validate the masculinity of presumed straight
male players.
Angry backlash from straight
male players also materializes when Western releases of Japanese games place women in slightly less revealing outfits, or increase the age of young
sexualized female characters to 18.
Sometimes in these types of games, females characters are either secondary, unimportant in the grand scheme of the narrative, overly
sexualized, or merely serve as a plot device to galvanize and progress the main
male character's actions or motivations.
That being said, the main function of the female gaze is to perceive female characters as self - defined subjects and not merely as
sexualized objects of
male desire.
The addition of the head detracts from the
male gaze and changes the way in which viewers are able to look at or understand the highly
sexualized image.
The viewer is asked to engage with and question whether her hyper -
sexualized women are depicted solely to satisfy an insatiable
male - dominated gaze, or alternatively the complex nature of women and their desire to enjoy their sexuality, enjoy their bodies and their desire to be desirable.
In his recent adult life, the artist noted an obvious machismo in the books» character - based narratives, including images of buff
male superheroes and hyper -
sexualized women.
Her current body of work explores the tensions found within systemic codes in which black
males, in particular, are hunted,
sexualized, feared, and imprisoned, yet are also seen as aspirational figures.
Here Cave isn't just mining the ephemera of a distant past; he is connecting it to the persistent, denigrating, hyper -
sexualized stereotypes of the worth of the black
male body that are very much in our present.
The viewer is asked to engage with and question whether Lichtenstein's hyper -
sexualized women are depicted solely to satisfy an insatiable
male - dominated gaze or alternatively, to satisfy the complex nature of women and their desire to be desirable and enjoy their own sexuality and bodies.
I'm completely intrigued by painting
sexualized epic
male forms from a perspective of what is often found desirable from a female gaze.
In her
male nudes, the subject «is used as a vehicle to express erotic feelings, just as
male artists have always used the female nude» [10] In works such as Paul Rosano Reclining (1974) and Imperial Nude: Paul Rosano (1975), Sleigh portrayed her
male subjects in stereotypical female poses in order to comment on past biases in which
male artist have depicted
sexualized female nudes.
In classical Hollywood cinema, as feminist film theorist, Laura Mulvey defined it; women are almost always represented in a
sexualized way in order to appeal to a
male audience.
Male artists have depicted women as passive,
sexualized objects for centuries.
While this doesn't excuse it, industry veterans aren't surprised by the complaint, saying that many of Canada's restaurants have a workplace culture that is overwhelming
male, close - knit, and full of
sexualized banter.
Moreover, female employees should not be expected to meet more difficult requirements than
male employees, and they should not be expected to dress in a
sexualized way to attract clients.