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Oh, those were the days! When one could just tackle patriarchal features of society without worrying about wholesale female erasure at the societal level. For giggles (:/) lets just take a quick foray into the ‘approved’ uniforms for the Finnish Female Sand Handball team. This is what they want to wear and have been censured and threatened with fines if they do not comply with what is the ‘official’ standard, see the next photo.
This what is officially sanctioned, and they will be fined if the deviate from the ‘norm.
And of course, what men get to wear.
Why? Because the male gaze is more important that female comfort, obviously. It is the bullshit double standards and sexist rules like this that occurs a million times a day for females in our society. We have been groomed to think that this is ‘normal’, but it is not.
Men are subjects, they have full control of themselves and their bodies. Females, on the other-hand, are objects designed for the viewing and consumption of others. It isn’t particularly fair, and it sucks.
I guess it is possible. Pandering to the male-gaze has been the industry standard for all too long. Time to shake things up in my honest opinion.
“there’s no such thing as “taking control” of being objectified. the women who say that through stripping or other forms of performative sexuality they are regaining control of their own objectification aren’t understanding the concept of control. control is gained through power, power is systematic and industrialized, power is not a feeling. you can feel good while you’re being objectified, or you can feel bad, but realistically that changes nothing about the exchange: the woman being exploited for male consumption. “
From Science Daily:
“Now neuroscientists at the University of Sussex’s Sackler Centre and Brighton and Sussex Medical School have identified the brain network system that causes us to stumble and stall just when we least want to.
MRI
Dr Michiko Yoshie and her colleagues Professor Hugo Critchley, Dr Neil Harrison, and Dr Yoko Nagai were able to pinpoint the brain area that causes the performance mishaps during an experiment using functional magnetic resonance neuroimaging (fMRI).
Previous research has shown that people tend to exert more force when they know they are being watched. For example, pianists unconsciously press keys harder when they play in front of an audience compared to when playing alone.
In the new study, published in Scientific Reports, participants’ brain activity was monitored while carrying out a task that required them to exert a precise amount of force when gripping an object.”
Now, can we apply this to women in who just happen to exist in society? – The Deep Woods certainly thinks so.
“Given the fact that women are constantly watched in our society, and we are constantly REMINDED that we are being watched by people making fun of fat, “ugly”, or gender-nonconforming women, it makes me wonder how many women have messed up important tasks or projects or just day-to-day activities because A PART OF OUR BRAIN is permanently being deactivated?
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Women are constantly held under the microscope- whether we are attractive or unattractive, the gaze of patriarchy never ends.”
Can a parallel be drawn between having an audience, and the male-gaze that is ever present in our society? Looks like another study is in order, but the connection, if proven wouldn’t be particularly surprising.
Baby high heels. It is an actual phenomena. Hard to have words for this one other than choked rage sputtering sounds.
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