>>148981773
I think its more socially conditioned. Like, the male gaze is certainly different from the female gaze, straight or otherwise. But men’s position in society lends more to certain types of gazes being considered the default. As a result, its kind of hard to pinpoint the exact “female” gaze. Anything that could be said to be it is really only defined to how it contrasts to the mainstream “male” gaze. And let’s be honest, the male gaze in more subject to marketable conditions than to anything men typically find attractive. What sells more is more likely to be pushed as more “desirable”