and the female counterparts are very often white and lighter tones with eyelashes and sometimes even womanly bodies despite the female and male characters being both animals because performative femininity doesn't just stop at frogs so that means that this frog has to have huge bobbies i need to wash my eyes with holy water um either way female or male gays it's still putting women inside a box and both gazes are still looking at women within the binary so much so that not even a freaking frog can escape the male gaze or the female performativity sure you can feel feminine every single day of your life but it's hard to perform it every single day ensure you can feel masculine every day of your life but it's hard to perform it in general it's pretty hard to meet the harsh standards that come with each gender stereotypes and i think it's time to start thinking outside of these two binary gazes someone that i think challenges both the female and male gaze perfectly is artist and musician dorian elektra dorian elektra is a gender fluid musician who's best known for their music and art that challenges gender expression they wear more masculine clothing but with a feminine twist create songs about being a man but in a satirical way all while wearing makeup but still presenting in a masculine way by lowering their voice when they sing dorian says i'm not a woman dressing as a man it's so much more complex than that nor do i feel like a man all the time so then how can we categorize people who don't fit the male or female gays well that's just the problem the female gaze is all about performing femininity and the male gaze is basically saying the same thing except more sexualized but what people don't talk about is that these two gazes come together to create kind of a toxic dynamic which can really end up hurting both parties especially women this can lead to women feeling like they're not feminine enough that they're not pretty enough they're not dainty enough and they put themselves under the pressure of being perfect NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN even when a man isn't around this is known as the internalized male gaze which is even a bigger facade and greater performance than femininity itself
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