575
The Male Gaze 👁️ (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] qarbone@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

Or even just an overexaggerated part of the female body, to signify where the stereotypical man focuses his attention.

The way it is now just sorta says "the male gaze is 'guys seeing women'"? Which...okay?

[-] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 58 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

My interpretation is he saw a guy because he had the visor on, but when it came off it's revealed it was a hot woman all along, and the visor was "protecting" him from that view. As in, he doesn't have to deal with his misogyny if he doesn't see women.

Ooooor it just doesn't make sense.

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 points 7 hours ago

Damn that's good. Yeah kind of like how we often see men as "default people" so if you're just picturing a person you're often thinking of a man without realising it - without even gendering them.

[-] qarbone@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago

No, no, you're cooking. I can see that interpretation.

[-] errer@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

I don’t see it when the lady saying “bro” after he loses the visor. “Bro” is not something ladies really say.

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

I (afab) call my husband, sisters, and female friends bros, dudes, dawgs, and guys.

Whether I’m a lady is debatable, because I’m a little rough around the edges, but I’m definitely female and wear skirts.

[-] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

My daughter has entered the chat bro.

[-] qarbone@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Really?

Maybe it's linguistic continuity to show they are the same person from before the visor was removed. Or...

Maybe women can just say "bro".

Edit: I'm not calling you a sexist or anything, but it's a weird deduction to make based on very subjective/anecdotal "evidence". I've interacted with a lot of women online they use "bro" pretty freely.

[-] errer@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

They can, but that’s really more a dude thing.

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

But women can be dudes too

[-] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Speak for yourself, bruh. We may not all say it, or say it as frequently as men do, but some of us absolutely have "bro" and its varieties within our regular vocabulary.

Honestly, I grew up using "dude" the same way (it was unavoidable when you grew up surrounded by brothers and male cousins in the 90s.) "Bro" was adopted later on. It has the same gender-coded tinge to it, but since "dude" already made sense to me, "bro" never felt strange to say.

[-] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

The way it is now is an exaggeration of the female body and few women actually look like that. The irony is that you missed that because you're so used to the male gaze. (This is not meant to be an insult, it's literally just the way we were all socialized).

[-] qarbone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

She's built like an Instagram fitness influencer, which of course few people look like. But she also dressed for exercise, so the physique doesn't reasonably transfer to the assumption "all women look like this."

I didn't miss that she's made to look hot, I just thought it could be made more explicit through further exaggeration since most cartoon stylings are already flattering.

this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2025
575 points (100.0% liked)

Comic Strips

18595 readers
2308 users here now

Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

The rules are simple:

Web of links

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS