‘In presenting the male body as the object of the gaze, particularly for other (heterosexual) men, any overtones of homosexual attraction need to be minimized in order to confer social legitimacy on the display’
if you're going to go there...dreamyourdreamsJune 24 2005, 06:10:04 UTC
Child of our time, the new man is all about us - rising like Venus from the waves or Adonis from the shaving foam, strutting his stuff across posters, calendars, magazines and birthday cards, peering nonchalantly down from advertising hoardings, dropping his trousers in the laundrette. He is everywhere. In the street, holding babies, pushing prams, collecting children, shopping with the progeny, panting in the ante-natal classes ….
We are saying it's a heterosexual man, but really is he being made into an object of his own desire?
Re: if you're going to go there...bucjoJune 24 2005, 06:15:01 UTC
But in saying that, Chris obviously here is doing a face-off pose...therefore, he is not enjoying the gaze. He is not feminising himself, less masculine and towards the opposites - femininity and homosexuality.
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Haha...*wanders off giggling to herself stupidly*
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We are saying it's a heterosexual man, but really is he being made into an object of his own desire?
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