Sunday, May 6, 2012

The male gaze can be seen or found everywhere, for example in magazine advertisements, movies, art, songs, anything media related, and even in women’s everyday lives and wardrobes.  In the Black Eyed Peas’ song, My Humps, it is all about a women’s body and her “humps”. As long as a woman has these “humps” or “lumps” she can get whatever she wants from a man. So as long as a woman has “lumps” she is sexy, guys want to have sex with her, dance with her, drive men crazy, and that men will buy her whatever her heart desires. Women are being pressured to be super skinny to have “humps” to be truly successful and “sexy”. But if you are female and don’t have these “humps” then you can’t possibly be as successful and pleasing to males as females with these “humps”. This song is a perfect example of sexual objectification of females, which is when heterosexual males view women as sexual objects instead of a whole person.

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