#bc i remember ppl saying a certain hotd episode was good bc it had a female director and bc of that certain scenes held 'the female gaze' | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

ladysophiebeckett · 2 years

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you know im gonna be honest--i dont know what the phrase ‘female gaze’ even means. its gets tossed around a lot and i think its supposed to mean, like ‘when a man does something women find attractive’--but sometimes i, as woman, dont really care about what i just saw. sometimes i dont even think about it at all. sometimes im not even attracted to the action that im supposed to be attracted to. its an action taken and i felt nothing.

#this is not really about that last post i rb'd #only partially #bc i remember ppl saying a certain hotd episode was good bc it had a female director and bc of that certain scenes held 'the female gaze'#and then i watched that episode and i was like ...'okay'....#i did not think there was anything extraordinary about it #if the point of the episode was to see rhaenyra get what she wants no matter what #then yes--i understand the episode #does that mean i know what 'the female gaze' is? ....no i dont #and im tired of pretending i know what it means #i do not #and i dont think it exists #bc of the patriarchal society we live in #you know that one quote by the woman who wrote that book hulu made a show on that wont end #u know the one #its like that #and she;s right #pls dont try and teach me what the phrase means #this post wasnt meant for that #im just talking

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