In a poem called The Male Gaze (Ending with a Sentence by Frank Bidart) by John Estes, it talks about how a man must be a leader or a follower; he must take action or have action taken upon him. And whether women should be seen as a person who is cherished, or seen as an object through what the male gaze has made them. It says that the male gaze is unrealistic, that it is all a catastrophic act. It is an agent being the male, an actor being a female, and the act being what and how the females act and look because of the male gaze. It is an act made by the agents, the males. Estes asks to forgive his sinful/regretful eyes for gazing upon females this way, and asks to be disconnected from the media, society and it’s relation with the male gaze for objectifying women (sexual objectification); but asks to be connected back when females aren’t objectified or seen as objects, and be cared for since women do have a soul.  They are whole human beings. In the last stanza of the poem, Estes uses a sentence from Frank Bidart which offers a way to change the male gaze, since we know the norms and follow the norms of the male gaze, the only way to change it is to change ourselves and the norms will be changed. This poem is supportive that the male gaze is an objectifying act towards women that is created my heterosexual males and media which is acted out by women, this act is simply that, an act so it is unrealistic. This poem even states that the male gaze has made women into objects, and gives a way to decrease the appearance of the male gaze in society by changing ourselves, which will change the norm of the male gaze in society. (Estes)