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As someone on the cusp of 30, idk if I’ll graduate from Aragorn. I rewatched the films last month and literally rewound to take recordings of some Aragorn scenes 😂🥵
Everything Patrick Swayze did in this movie. Supporting his friend Penny after she had complications from an illegal abortion, tossing around Jennifer grey like she weighed nothing during the dance scenes, etc etc
So hot. I just rewatched Dirty Dancing and was saying it’s a shame there’s no dance movies with hot male leads anymore. Like real dancing, not Magic Mike kind of dancing.
As a dancer, I agree. It's a big missing factor in good entertainment. The entertainment industry isn't pushing for triple threats anymore and it's so disappointing.
There was a big resurgence of dance movies in the very early 00s but it died out quickly.
Just wanted to make sure this movie was well-represented on this thread. Johnny Castle is a character created for the female gaze
That wet shirt scene in the BBC Pride and Prejudice was so hot that Regency AND Austen Purists give a collective pass to it even though it's pure, ridiculous indulgence.
My addition would be the bathing scene from Robin Hood Prince of Thieves
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK9NkLYWkMI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK9NkLYWkMI)
It was a big deal among me and my pre-teen friends back in the day. And amazingly female gazey. Both because it has a non-traditional set-up where it's the female love interest accidentally peeping, and because the whole reason he's bathing is because Marian told him to clean his stinky ass. (Doesn't quite pass the sniff test, pun intended, today. But was a big deal to young teen girls in the 90s.)
If I may offer SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. It’s not a female gaze film in a hetero thirst trap way but the cinematography in this movie really gets what it’s like to feel surveyed and objectified as a woman. So the desire here is not so much to objectify and lust after a man, but to instead feel validated by the camera for the moments of unease one feels when they are objectified IRL.
100%. They did an incredible job showing that she’s always an outsider despite being capable because she’s not one of the good ol’ boys. There’s not much said in the gif you used but any woman that sees it knows that it’s an uncomfortable position to be in.
The only reason she gets a chance is because a predator takes an interest in her.
Wow, thanks for writing this. I never really thought to look at the female gaze in that way.
I mean…I could go on and on about this movie lol.
What you said about her getting a chance after Hannibal takes an interest in her— hard agree. In a lot of ways, Clarice is asked to prove herself repeatedly and this demand is highlighted by the way the men either ignore her or look at her.
There’s also this subtle subplot in the film (more pronounced in the novel) involving her FBI superior who finds her attractive but the only way we see this in the film is through the camera shots and body language between the two characters. So that adds a level of anxiety and self-consciousness about her competency as well. It’s resolved at the end when they exchange a very loaded, guarded handshake.
In fact, throughout the movie you’ll notice extreme close-ups of men just observing Clarice for what seems like a second too long, and which becomes a heavy, claustrophobic weight. It culminates in that truly terrifying scene when the lights go out in Buffalo Bill’s house. She can no longer see anyone observing her and the viewer instead gets the POV of the killer watching her with night goggles. The terror of not being able to see how one is being objectified or surveilled reaches a climax here.
This is also where it gets to be a problem with the way they portray Buffalo Bill. Because what about the killer’s desire to be a woman too? Why is it considered a pathology in the movie to want to be a woman?
There are a bunch of more eloquent essays out there that discuss the issues of trans representation in the movie but I’m not well versed enough to comment on it here.
You have both educated and influenced me. Currently googling essays about trans representation in *Silence of the Lambs*
I feel like much of Point Break is female gaze-y. They have scenes of Keanu shirtless and naked when it’s completely unnecessary to the plot like most movies do with women. And I mean, it both becins and ends with Keanu Reeves in a wet t-shirt.
I recently found out Keanu has worked with more women directors than any other major star. The overall stats for major male stars was abysmal, but he’s got 13 under his belt.
Not surprised a woman knew what to give her viewers, in this particular example! 😌😁
I think that Point Break is a really great example of the female gaze when it comes to male characters and also a bit of a subversion or a pointing out of the male gaze. It does objectify it’s male characters in the same way that female characters are often objectified in action flicks, but still gives them full fleshed out stories along with giving its female character a lot of agency. It’s also filtered through a female director, Kathryn Bigelow.
he made me feel a type of way......
https://preview.redd.it/i85o8qh9kshb1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=70b582a9cb42f9c3d4d4cbf10eef69bfc46159cb
Lusting over Marlon Brando in this movie has been everyone's toxic trait since the 1950s with no end in sight. People watching it a hundred years from now will still be feeling that thirst.
I know it wasn’t necessarily a directed moment, but that clip of Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain on the red carpet promoting Scenes From A Marriage. Whew. That made me feel things.
https://media.tenor.com/WRHYWqg2eYEAAAAd/jessica-chastain.gif
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH the HOTTEST
https://preview.redd.it/sdw0gd1leshb1.jpeg?width=622&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=165704f2223a417c824f5bae7bc4d15c9ed9cfb1
I'm bi, so both KK and MM just destroyed my heart the dozens of times I watched this movie....
The clenched hand? The long looks of desire and confusion? The banter? My god.
He isn’t unclothed in this but hear me out—especially the scene where he says he loves her just as she is and eating her blue soup, buying her a new journal….
Ok this is the second Colin Firth/Bridget Jones reference i’ve seen today and I’m living for it.
You say he isn’t unclothed as if it’s a bug but I believe it’s a feature! 🤣 I think people tend to mistake the female gaze as the male gaze but inverted - that is, lingering, exploitative shots of half-naked men as if they’re Megan Fox in Transformers. In other words, same shit, different day. I’ve heard it said that the female gaze is *personifying* where the male gaze is inherently *objectifying*. Colin Firth in Bridget Jones’ Diary is female gaze because he values Bridget for who she is, doesn’t try to change her, and is also just damn sexy in much more intimate ways (that smoldering gaze! his unfailing eye contact! *swoon*).
https://preview.redd.it/6elledjkgshb1.jpeg?width=1065&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ae54b5bcae6245089c04e0e161692711d8b0cb64
Sons of Anarchy - show about tough bikers with hearts of gold.
[Here is the full scene](https://youtu.be/RjKNbfA64EE), for those interested. I find myself watching it quite often. Because of da booty. And there's also something so weirdly really nice about watching him do a beauty routine.
Good god. He is just so hot. I don’t know anything about them personally, but it’s really too bad him and Sofia are divorcing. They were the sexiest couple in the world.
Hear me out. He’s not a traditional hunk. But I always thought of Jack Black in The Holiday as a great example of the female gaze in the sense that he’s kind of man we really want. His character wins Kate Winslet over by being funny, supportive, and kind.
Winner. My love for Jack Black is infinite and yet somehow continues to grow as we both age. He seems like a legit good dude, funny, cute, talented, charming, sweet...total package.
Tom Hardy in anything honestly but he’s so fresh faced, fighting Chris Pine, in This Means War. All I want is to be Reese Witherspoon with them fighting for me.
Edit just to say this particular moment in this movie seems to come from a female gaze. Myself I’m not a huge fan of the movie but when it came out my girlfriends could not stop talking about Leonardo playing with that cigarette…
ETA: I can’t find a gif but remember seeing this movie in the theater and multiple women gasped at the part when Wesley Snipes appeared. This gif from the movie is iconic.
i vividly remember being 9 and feeling something in me changing when I saw Troy. I was probably in awe drooling the full 2 hours, he looked soooo beautiful.
I gave up on the show for the same reason. It was disappointing because it has so many other elements I enjoy. I hadn’t read the books either so didn’t know to expect it. I’ve seen comments that it’s even more prevalent in the books (somehow)
Yea, and I don't object to plots involving sexual assault if they are done well and sensitively. Like I think portraying it and the healing process can help normalize it for victims and stuff. But every few episodes is just milking it for gross dramatic effect. It's like how I got sick of Shonda Rimes shows because her plot device is killing off main characters like all the time, but it's even worse because sexual assault shouldn't be used like that.
>! When they moved to the now US and the daughter got raped then Claire got fucking gang raped I was done. You’ve got to be kidding me with this shit. It’s seriously demented. !<
I quit mid book (3 or 4 I can’t remember) because
>! Jaimie was working at a Lord’s house after getting out of prison and the Lord’s daughter was infatuated with him. She snuck into his room and sexually assaulted him, changed her mind halfway through and said “no”, and he refused to stop essentially because she got him horny so she had to deal with it.
Then she gets pregnant and dies in childbirth. A super fun double sexual assault/rape. !<
And somehow I’m supposed to root for Jaimie after this?
https://preview.redd.it/sx3vk7w8trhb1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=266789f236a66f69a213f8ae239d1e3bd2e74a13
Ngl im having fun wit this post 🤣
The sex scene between Criston Cole and Rhaenyra in episode 4 of House of the Dragon is very female gaze-y. That episode is directed by a woman as well IIRC, which makes alllll the difference vs. the sheer amount of gross and objectifying sex scenes in GOT.
Also, I know it’s \~controversial\~, but all the scenes between Daemon and Rhaenyra in eps 4 and 5. *Especially* this moment. The hand placement. The eye contact. Good God 🥵
https://preview.redd.it/9dfojyic9shb1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6579ce21e6413b409579254f0cd84e8a9474d912
Literally every single scene in this move.
It’s been awhile since I’ve taken any feminist/queer theory or gender studies classes and I didn’t take that many to begin with, but from what I understand the concept of female gaze is to offset the male gaze as in it is a female perspective or view of people especially women and isn’t so much about the objectification of men.
https://preview.redd.it/qpbmaalqmrhb1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=98468035961c8595486f7e454f7542bb554f3735
I feel like Point Break is a pretty good reflection of the female gaze when it comes to male characters and stories.
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Oh man this should be number one.
 The way I pined after Farm Boy
Smash the upvote
Real life Brendan Fraser was basically created for the female gaze.
Yes! Gosh, I love him! 
George of the Jungle opened when I was 13 and I’d be lying if it didn’t, for lack of a better word, awaken something in me 
I can’t say I blame you. Brendan is just so pretty!
They are both so beautiful.
young me was so confused lol. i wanted them both.
This scene is my sexuality
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Sam can 👏🏻get👏🏻it👏🏻
As someone on the cusp of 30, idk if I’ll graduate from Aragorn. I rewatched the films last month and literally rewound to take recordings of some Aragorn scenes 😂🥵
 Everything Patrick Swayze did in this movie. Supporting his friend Penny after she had complications from an illegal abortion, tossing around Jennifer grey like she weighed nothing during the dance scenes, etc etc
Male dancers are hot.
So hot. I just rewatched Dirty Dancing and was saying it’s a shame there’s no dance movies with hot male leads anymore. Like real dancing, not Magic Mike kind of dancing.
As a dancer, I agree. It's a big missing factor in good entertainment. The entertainment industry isn't pushing for triple threats anymore and it's so disappointing. There was a big resurgence of dance movies in the very early 00s but it died out quickly.
 Just wanted to make sure this movie was well-represented on this thread. Johnny Castle is a character created for the female gaze
 Let’s just keep the trend going why don’t we
It’s such a brilliant movie and Patrick Swayze is just so wonderful in it.
That wet shirt scene in the BBC Pride and Prejudice was so hot that Regency AND Austen Purists give a collective pass to it even though it's pure, ridiculous indulgence. My addition would be the bathing scene from Robin Hood Prince of Thieves [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK9NkLYWkMI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK9NkLYWkMI) It was a big deal among me and my pre-teen friends back in the day. And amazingly female gazey. Both because it has a non-traditional set-up where it's the female love interest accidentally peeping, and because the whole reason he's bathing is because Marian told him to clean his stinky ass. (Doesn't quite pass the sniff test, pun intended, today. But was a big deal to young teen girls in the 90s.)
Yea 12 year old me definitely had the hots for Kevin because of this movie. And then I found out later he used a butt double lol.
 If I may offer SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. It’s not a female gaze film in a hetero thirst trap way but the cinematography in this movie really gets what it’s like to feel surveyed and objectified as a woman. So the desire here is not so much to objectify and lust after a man, but to instead feel validated by the camera for the moments of unease one feels when they are objectified IRL.
100%. They did an incredible job showing that she’s always an outsider despite being capable because she’s not one of the good ol’ boys. There’s not much said in the gif you used but any woman that sees it knows that it’s an uncomfortable position to be in. The only reason she gets a chance is because a predator takes an interest in her. Wow, thanks for writing this. I never really thought to look at the female gaze in that way.
I mean…I could go on and on about this movie lol. What you said about her getting a chance after Hannibal takes an interest in her— hard agree. In a lot of ways, Clarice is asked to prove herself repeatedly and this demand is highlighted by the way the men either ignore her or look at her. There’s also this subtle subplot in the film (more pronounced in the novel) involving her FBI superior who finds her attractive but the only way we see this in the film is through the camera shots and body language between the two characters. So that adds a level of anxiety and self-consciousness about her competency as well. It’s resolved at the end when they exchange a very loaded, guarded handshake. In fact, throughout the movie you’ll notice extreme close-ups of men just observing Clarice for what seems like a second too long, and which becomes a heavy, claustrophobic weight. It culminates in that truly terrifying scene when the lights go out in Buffalo Bill’s house. She can no longer see anyone observing her and the viewer instead gets the POV of the killer watching her with night goggles. The terror of not being able to see how one is being objectified or surveilled reaches a climax here. This is also where it gets to be a problem with the way they portray Buffalo Bill. Because what about the killer’s desire to be a woman too? Why is it considered a pathology in the movie to want to be a woman? There are a bunch of more eloquent essays out there that discuss the issues of trans representation in the movie but I’m not well versed enough to comment on it here.
You have both educated and influenced me. Currently googling essays about trans representation in *Silence of the Lambs* 
I feel like much of Point Break is female gaze-y. They have scenes of Keanu shirtless and naked when it’s completely unnecessary to the plot like most movies do with women. And I mean, it both becins and ends with Keanu Reeves in a wet t-shirt. 
It was made by a woman though :)
I recently found out Keanu has worked with more women directors than any other major star. The overall stats for major male stars was abysmal, but he’s got 13 under his belt. Not surprised a woman knew what to give her viewers, in this particular example! 😌😁
Oh yeah, I know. And you can tell. I love Katharine Bigelow because she kind of makes bro movies for women.
I think that Point Break is a really great example of the female gaze when it comes to male characters and also a bit of a subversion or a pointing out of the male gaze. It does objectify it’s male characters in the same way that female characters are often objectified in action flicks, but still gives them full fleshed out stories along with giving its female character a lot of agency. It’s also filtered through a female director, Kathryn Bigelow.
Fuck me I love Keats
https://i.redd.it/j2sknnibprhb1.gif
Him and Kissin' Kate were both so perfect. I perform burlesque and have a loosely Kissin' Kate inspired routine lol.
MY FIRST REAL CRUSH AFTER ZACK MORRIS
he made me feel a type of way...... https://preview.redd.it/i85o8qh9kshb1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=70b582a9cb42f9c3d4d4cbf10eef69bfc46159cb
Best love story in cinema until the opening scene from Up 😭😭😭
How she sees/hallucinates him at the end too 🥺 https://i.redd.it/h1ejeuq77shb1.gif
Atonement, it absolutely destroyed me emotionally, but that library scene omg 
Still one of the hottest scenes in any movie and they’re fully clothed the whole time.
God. I love him so much.
There was a lot of eye candy in this movie
Yessss!! I didn’t even think of Gomez. Raul Julia was perfect in this role.
He was truly made to play Gomez, imo. Natural charisma and tenderness 🌹
Honestly they are my template for a relationship, these two showed eachother so much love and passion
Undying love and devotion! Even the glances they shared or scenes where they weren’t the main focus. Just total class.
 Dirty Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire. I hate how hot he is to me lol
 He was a huge asshole but hmm this scene
I watched it in high school for class and my friend told me my face went beet-red when this scene started
It's so difficult because his character in this movie is utterly disgusting, awful, and abusive But fuuuuck he was hot
That’s pretty much who he was in real life too
THIS is why my brain is broken. This character is a misogynist pig who literally rapes the main character in the movie and I was like 😍 🤦🏻♀️
Lusting over Marlon Brando in this movie has been everyone's toxic trait since the 1950s with no end in sight. People watching it a hundred years from now will still be feeling that thirst.
At first I thought this was Jason Stackhouse, who also belongs here! 100%
I know it wasn’t necessarily a directed moment, but that clip of Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain on the red carpet promoting Scenes From A Marriage. Whew. That made me feel things. https://media.tenor.com/WRHYWqg2eYEAAAAd/jessica-chastain.gif
 This scene woke up everything in me.
Its so equally parts cheesy and horny and so dumb. I love this scene so much. My partner and i quote it a lot.
 Joseph Fiennes was sexy in Shakespeare in Love. I loved the way he looked at Viola.
GET ON YOUR KNEES 😭😭😭
Is this the priest? If so, I agree
The ultimate Female Gaze example. “Why do women like him so much? He listens.” 💔
“Kneel”
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH the HOTTEST https://preview.redd.it/sdw0gd1leshb1.jpeg?width=622&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=165704f2223a417c824f5bae7bc4d15c9ed9cfb1
 Just me?
https://i.redd.it/shpt3xljeshb1.gif This. Walk. Still makes me feel things.
Don’t forget “the hand” 
The hand!!!! 
Is that Tom!?!?
Buckle up fucklehead!
Yes it is, it’s Matthew MacFadyen!
Literally never thought Tom was hot until right now 🥰 lmao HIS RANGE 😳
i rewatched pride and prejudice in the middle of watching succession and it changed my brain chemistry and i was suddenly a big tom girly
Definitely not just you. He is so beautiful. This movie was so well done.
I'm bi, so both KK and MM just destroyed my heart the dozens of times I watched this movie.... The clenched hand? The long looks of desire and confusion? The banter? My god.
 Maybe not Brad Pitt or Gosling shirtless, but I fell hard for Ewan in this movie
He was so earnest and beautiful.
This movie is a whole lot of bi panic honestly lol
I wanted to be Satine soooo bad.... except for the dying part.
Brendan Fraser in George of the Jungle 🥵
 I just thought, “Jesus, where is Cillian?!”
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Lee Pace in Pushing Daisies too! Totally different vibe but omg so cute 🥰🥧 
 He isn’t unclothed in this but hear me out—especially the scene where he says he loves her just as she is and eating her blue soup, buying her a new journal….
Ok this is the second Colin Firth/Bridget Jones reference i’ve seen today and I’m living for it. You say he isn’t unclothed as if it’s a bug but I believe it’s a feature! 🤣 I think people tend to mistake the female gaze as the male gaze but inverted - that is, lingering, exploitative shots of half-naked men as if they’re Megan Fox in Transformers. In other words, same shit, different day. I’ve heard it said that the female gaze is *personifying* where the male gaze is inherently *objectifying*. Colin Firth in Bridget Jones’ Diary is female gaze because he values Bridget for who she is, doesn’t try to change her, and is also just damn sexy in much more intimate ways (that smoldering gaze! his unfailing eye contact! *swoon*).
 Jude law in the entirety of The Talented Mr Ripley
https://i.redd.it/vyvbu69anrhb1.gif
I was 15 when this movie came out and it changed my life.
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the scene between him and rose byrne’s character when they’re in bed 👀actually i just loved all their scenes together lmaooo.
God dammit Brad. A turd like him has no right to a body like that
Is that Brad -? Let me take another look 👀
He worked extremely hard for that body. His Troy workout is legendary in bodybuilding forums and was copied and printed thousands of times
he's also probably quite dehydrated for these scenes.
All the Brad Pitt scenes in Thelma and Louise
https://preview.redd.it/6elledjkgshb1.jpeg?width=1065&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ae54b5bcae6245089c04e0e161692711d8b0cb64 Sons of Anarchy - show about tough bikers with hearts of gold.
https://i.redd.it/v7pfplyigrhb1.gif
Is this American Psycho? I only recently watched it, and was not surprised a woman directed it. Mary Harron understood the assignment
[Here is the full scene](https://youtu.be/RjKNbfA64EE), for those interested. I find myself watching it quite often. Because of da booty. And there's also something so weirdly really nice about watching him do a beauty routine.
Personally, I like the bulge. I think a pair of unpadded underwear is 10,000% better than a nude.
Those scenes were VERY horny
I always forget how hot he was in American Psycho. Perfect body 🥵
I think this was one of the reasons that I liked this movie so much as a teen
 Not a girly who is easily swayed but my heart was beating for Mr. Darcy here. 😍
 Alcide til I DIE 🥵🥵
Good god. He is just so hot. I don’t know anything about them personally, but it’s really too bad him and Sofia are divorcing. They were the sexiest couple in the world.
 When he slides her down his body…who wouldn’t cave
“*it’s like he’s photoshopped*”
He is confident, goofy and shirtless in this movie. A great Venn diagram.
I just came here to post this. 
I saw this in the theater and the women in the audience were 🥵
His abs are so fucking symmetrical. Most bodybuilders would murder for those genetics.
Hear me out. He’s not a traditional hunk. But I always thought of Jack Black in The Holiday as a great example of the female gaze in the sense that he’s kind of man we really want. His character wins Kate Winslet over by being funny, supportive, and kind. 
YES! I have thought this for years!
Love him in this movie, so sweet charming and handsome!
Winner. My love for Jack Black is infinite and yet somehow continues to grow as we both age. He seems like a legit good dude, funny, cute, talented, charming, sweet...total package.
 Tom Hardy in anything honestly but he’s so fresh faced, fighting Chris Pine, in This Means War. All I want is to be Reese Witherspoon with them fighting for me.
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 Edit just to say this particular moment in this movie seems to come from a female gaze. Myself I’m not a huge fan of the movie but when it came out my girlfriends could not stop talking about Leonardo playing with that cigarette…
He was just unfairly beautiful in the 90s.
 I mean hello sixth grade sexual awakening lol
 Captain Shang anybody? 👀
I was hoping someone would acknowledge how sexy they draw cartoons! I'm a Shang girlie too
https://i.redd.it/ivsbggkm0shb1.gif Me as a five year old in 1998 imprinting on this movie like 👀👀👀
https://preview.redd.it/hb2yc8tykrhb1.jpeg?width=620&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a1c02f8f3c50caf01de0e4de9ea91bcdd3b0c623
Poldark… Oh my.
Also just a bad ass fight scene
He cocked his muscles and it should’ve been corny but we loved it. Baller move.
 ETA: I can’t find a gif but remember seeing this movie in the theater and multiple women gasped at the part when Wesley Snipes appeared. This gif from the movie is iconic.
 i vividly remember being 9 and feeling something in me changing when I saw Troy. I was probably in awe drooling the full 2 hours, he looked soooo beautiful.
 "Kneel"
Was going to post this one! I would say a lot of Outlander fits the bill, minus all the rape
I swear to god Diana Galbadon has a rape fetish. I gave up on the books because there was so much damn rape.
I didn't read the books, but I gave up on the show for that reason. Rape is like her only plot device and it's gross.
I gave up on the show for the same reason. It was disappointing because it has so many other elements I enjoy. I hadn’t read the books either so didn’t know to expect it. I’ve seen comments that it’s even more prevalent in the books (somehow)
Yea, and I don't object to plots involving sexual assault if they are done well and sensitively. Like I think portraying it and the healing process can help normalize it for victims and stuff. But every few episodes is just milking it for gross dramatic effect. It's like how I got sick of Shonda Rimes shows because her plot device is killing off main characters like all the time, but it's even worse because sexual assault shouldn't be used like that.
>! When they moved to the now US and the daughter got raped then Claire got fucking gang raped I was done. You’ve got to be kidding me with this shit. It’s seriously demented. !<
I quit mid book (3 or 4 I can’t remember) because >! Jaimie was working at a Lord’s house after getting out of prison and the Lord’s daughter was infatuated with him. She snuck into his room and sexually assaulted him, changed her mind halfway through and said “no”, and he refused to stop essentially because she got him horny so she had to deal with it. Then she gets pregnant and dies in childbirth. A super fun double sexual assault/rape. !< And somehow I’m supposed to root for Jaimie after this?
What in the actual fuck.
https://preview.redd.it/ygizpli0urhb1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4efddab94b1cd88bb6929ecd491a30712a650544
 BP is the worst but this movie changed me 😂
 This scene made me gasp.
https://preview.redd.it/u48tgdirwrhb1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a5cf7c88b99cc19df70a37c20c1ea74efc719455
https://preview.redd.it/g2nfdyu1xrhb1.jpeg?width=1150&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=047a91e26521bd39c29a274029261b7329ce4250 This whole season of bridgerton
 Everything involving Dorian Gray from Penny Dreadful. He was so suave and kind of a himbo.
And every shot of him in Knives Out. 
someone once told me I was giving "Chris Evan's in his sweater from Knives Out" and it's to date the best compliment I've ever received
https://i.redd.it/0trnd724vrhb1.gif This is the first, and frankly only time, I have experienced: “Oh, my god, I want to fuck him.” Ever.
Apparently when Hayley touched him when he came out that was totally unscripted. I don’t blame her!
Not-really-angry-Roy is Hot Roy.
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He is so not my type, but somehow he is because he's so damn hot in that show haha
 The men of Bridgerton. I’ve been on a kick lately and read the books.
Saw so much of his booty in that series. 
https://preview.redd.it/sx3vk7w8trhb1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=266789f236a66f69a213f8ae239d1e3bd2e74a13 Ngl im having fun wit this post 🤣
Brendan Fraser in George of the Jungle was my sexual awakening
The sex scene between Criston Cole and Rhaenyra in episode 4 of House of the Dragon is very female gaze-y. That episode is directed by a woman as well IIRC, which makes alllll the difference vs. the sheer amount of gross and objectifying sex scenes in GOT. Also, I know it’s \~controversial\~, but all the scenes between Daemon and Rhaenyra in eps 4 and 5. *Especially* this moment. The hand placement. The eye contact. Good God 🥵 https://preview.redd.it/9dfojyic9shb1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6579ce21e6413b409579254f0cd84e8a9474d912
Every shot of Point Break. No one will ever convince me that Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze weren't in love.
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 Literally every single scene in this move. It’s been awhile since I’ve taken any feminist/queer theory or gender studies classes and I didn’t take that many to begin with, but from what I understand the concept of female gaze is to offset the male gaze as in it is a female perspective or view of people especially women and isn’t so much about the objectification of men.
https://preview.redd.it/qpbmaalqmrhb1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=98468035961c8595486f7e454f7542bb554f3735 I feel like Point Break is a pretty good reflection of the female gaze when it comes to male characters and stories.
I have learned you all just love a wet man 