male-gazey

male-gazey

English

Etymology

male gaze +‎ -y

Adjective

male-gazey (comparative more male-gazey, superlative most male-gazey)

1. (informal) Presenting women in a way which implicitly assumes the viewer/reader is a heterosexual man.
   • 2013, "Baked, Buzzed, Bored: 'Spring Breakers'", The Michigan Daily (University of Michigan), 28 March 2013:

     For most of the movie, I’m torn between wanting to make a list of every overtly male-gazey shot, wanting to leave the theater to go get chicken tenders and wanting to take body shots off of Vanessa Hudgens.

   • 2014, Athena G. Csuti, "U of C confessions too revealing", The Gauntlet (University of Calgary), Volume 54, Issue 32, 6 March 2014, page 9:

     I “liked” the U of C Compliments page on Facebook. While its content tends to lean towards male-gazey compliments about foxy women at the gym, I still think it’s kind of sweet that people take the time and effort to say something kind anonymously with no incentive.

   • 2014, Mike McCahill, "Secret Sharer review – stormy-seas drama remains rather flat ", The Guardian, 26 June 2014:

     […] Fudakowski reserves his greatest enthusiasm for exoticising, male-gazey images of Zhu in the altogether, or wearing one of the captain's crisp white shirts just so off the shoulder.

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:male-gazey.