Mmm. Ok. So last week, or the week before, I had to read "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" by Laura Mulvey. And boy oh boy, was it eye opening. It was all about how the way media is set up, especially movies and television, to be watched through the eyes of heterosexual males. So basically women are objects. That part is kind of old news. But the part that wowed me was that women have to change their view and morph and watch this media through the eyes of a heterosexual male. This makes women harsher on themselves in terms of beauty. And then we looked at a years worth of Glamour magazine. And wow, that was so depressing. Like every one had something about better hair and how to sexually please men. It's awful! And, it proves that women have trained themselves to see women as objects and as nothing more than a man's plaything. Ugh. It was a great essay, but now all I want to do is run around and objectify men to even the playing field. And I really want to make a movie that objectifies men instead of women just to fuck with people's heads. Also, I really just want women to stop looking at themselves so critically. I mean I don't think we should objectify men, it's just so unfair, I want it to be fair. Like have an even way of gazing. I wish I could figure out some way to change it. Maybe I will do something about it in the future. Hm. But I'm also really glad that I read this since it should help me with my Senior Honors Seminar. I'm also thinking of doing a play on magazine covers, making them more objectifying to men to show the contrast between what is and what technically should be. I am overall very excited about this essay, even though the truths it bears are frightening.
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