C of L49 "it's the little things that remind me of genius"

[Mark Kohut]

The Gaze, the male gaze, a 1975 phrase by a feminist film critic
has gathered much more use in recent decades.

In Purity, Franzen actually uses an the capitalized Gaze--in the
middle of a sentence, which must leave some to say, wha?--- to
describe men looking at Purity.

This goes back further than 75, I read Sartre on 'the look' in Being
And Nothingness
in college. I've confirmed my memory is not corrupted.

Sartre explains that "the look" is the basis for sexual desire,
declaring that a biological motivation for sex does not exist.
Instead, "double reciprocal incarnation" is a form of mutual awareness
which Sartre takes to be at the heart of the sexual experience.


Lot 49. p. 29 "his radiant eyes flew open, pierced her [NB pierce], as
if she could feel the sharpness somewhere vague between her breasts.
She sank with an enormous sigh that carried all rigidity
like a mythical fluid from her, down next to him, so weak she couldn't
help him undress her"   ....

I've heard stories, read stories, lived one in my Western world about
experiences like the above. 'Double reciprocal incarnation' indeed.

True still or true in 1966 or an anti-feminist stereotype akin to P's
trope/insight that many women
like....a perceived 'strong man'?
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