In many forms of media today, women are seen as a specific type of woman. Usually the woman is depicted as being very curvaceous, and having a sort of mystery to them. Through the use of the lens, woman are shot from the bottom up and are seen as has having this very beautiful and mysterious look about them. The
male gaze is the idea that the dominate heterosexual male is looking at the dominate white woman. Through the look of the gaze, many women are trying to form themselves to look like the women on the screen to fulfill the look of the male gaze.
In this scene from Transformers, there is a pretty obvious scene of the male gaze. In the scene, we have Shia LaBeouf looking at Megan Fox's body. When he does so, the camera pans from the her legs to her chest, which then shoots to her face. This scene is a very good example of the male gaze in action. Through film and ads, women are constantly looking a images of what the dominate female should look like and in return the gaze is shaping the way women think.
I think that this image does a good job of displaying the internal thoughts that a woman sees herself as. In the picture, the woman is clearly very thin, but in her eyes she is not thin enough and she then sees herself as fat. Its the idea that we as humans are judging ourselves based on what other people
are going to think of us, which this image is representing.
