Alex Caminer
Media 384
Ways of Seeing/Viewing
Female
film criticism was given in 1975 by Laura Mulvey. She says that male gaze is a
way in which the visual arts and literature represent the world and women from
a male point of view, presenting women as objects of male pleasure. 
Berger
explains in his book "The Nude Kenneth Clark" that "the nude is
a form of art" (53)
but is not always confined to being photographed, poses and gestures in the nude. He tells us that
when God created man and woman they were naked but neither of them knew that he was until Eve
ate from the tree and fed Adam. I would say that based on that time, we can say that I always exist
patriarchy since God created man first and then woman. To see naked women in times past has never
been anything bad because as Berger says, women were chosen to make paintings and photographs.
This was sent as a present for a man. Also, Berger says "Women are there to feed an appetite, not to
have any of their own" (55). And I agree with Berger since women have always been used to make
nudes for either photos, movies or commercials. Also, we have reached the point that everything that
man does is fine and if a woman does it is considered the worst. This is based on the system we have
been running for years. Also, I do not think that it is the fault of men to carry a patriarchy system, I
believe that women have not given their place and have collaborated with the system. If we get to see
some famous artists, they lend themselves to record intimate videos. For example, there is a sprite
propaganda where a woman lends herself to making a commercial with double meaning. In the end,
the man receives a satisfaction and the woman an use. As Berger said, women are about to satisfy
others.
To conclude, Berger says
"Women are depicted in a quite different way from men- because the
feminine is different from the masculine - but because the spectator is always
assumed to be male and the image of the women is designed to him flatter
him" (64) By this he means that the problem is not that women are naked,
but are as a product for the eyes of men and that they will only see it at
their convenience being the object of satisfaction of man.
If we have to talk about
what it means or what patriarchy means, I can say that it determines a
dominating model. Where men have the charge of everything, such as politics,
family property, social privilege and demonstrating more power over women and
children. This was regarded as the Father's Rule. Based on the times of the
past, patriarchy has been a system where man has had the absolute power to say
and do what they have wanted. While women have only respected the decision and
have been the shade of men. Today, patriarchy is seen but not as common as in
the past. An example of patriarchy is the current President Donald Trump, who
in the seizure of power, his wife Melania Trump says something cheerful that he
does not like, which makes him respond and she stayed quiet and stopped smiling.
Here the video of what happened.
In the book: the will to
change "Hooks tells us that anti-feminist women and men insist that
feminism is destroying family life” (107). As men argue that working women
leave the private homes of housewives and children without maternal care. I
think the world was different before. I'm not saying that we live in a sexist
world, but women had a different position. Before they did not have the same
equals as men. They were in charge of the house, of the children, while the men
were in charge of the hard work. In this 20th century, things are different,
since women have the same opportunities. Nowadays things are difficult and you
can no longer think that man must pay everything. Now there must be equality in
everything. Both work, both take care of the family and both contribute to
household expenses. Nowadays the media, as well as social networks, newspaper
and television help us to see things in a different way. Before we did not see
women working in offices or doing men's work, now. Let's not go that far,
Hilary Clinton was going to be the first female president in the United States
that means that women are increasingly gaining the space they deserve and do
not live in a limited space like they used to.
Work Cited
Berger, John. "Ways of Seeing." (1974): 53-55-64.
Mulvey, Laura. "Visual Pleasure and Narrative
Cinema." Visual and Other Pleasures (1989).
Hooks, Bell. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and
Love. New York: Atria Books, 2004: 107
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