Feminism

This lesson we looked more at feminism (post) and Lucy Irigary (1932) in her statement that she exists only by metonymy as a possibility for men. This feminist perspective is suggestive that the conformities and expectations of women are presenting them as objects for the male gaze. I agree with this because by conforming to these expectations women are no longer identified as individuals they are merely sexualizing themselves through appearance and behaviour to grab male attention. This is why people assume that only pretty women can be successful. Women very much are victims of scopophilia as the male audience is gaining pleasure from viewing women presented in this way and this is what they expect. Women are objectified in many ways through synecdoche as only a part of them is intended to represent them as a whole.