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

[Mark Kohut]

Dunno. Dunno how that feminist critic defines it via use...but I
thought she mostly meant that look of objectifying
the female as appearance only.

I think Franzen uses it this way in Purity....and with Sartre, that
'look' as he writes of it is a look of wanting to bed, I think. Or so
my horny young reading eyes remembered.

On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:
> The male gaze and what Sartre seems to be talking about sound to me to be
> two completely different things. "The look" just sounds like bedroom eyes to
> me.
>
> On Friday, January 15, 2016, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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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