>Female nudes (as opposed to naked bodies, male or female, to borrow
John Berger's distinction), for straight guys, function as fetishes that
they need to hide their fear of 'falling short' of the Ideal Manhood
(pun intended, of course). On the other hand, straight guys are
instructed to run scared from male nudes. Read, for instance, Peter
Lehman's _Running Scared: Masculinity and the Representation of the Male
Body_ on this subject.
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-critique is indeed impossible.
>Yoshie
i completely disagree with your take on the male gaze. males may be instructed to reun scared from the male nude but in this instruction the male nude is indeed fetishized for the male in much the same way that the female body (ideally) is fetishized. homophobia, queer theory, drive towards genderlessness...
and critique is impossible if we are to remain gendered on the Subject.
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