But this has been at the cost of a woman's self being split into two. A woman must continually watch herself. Men survey women before treating them. Consequently how a woman appears to a man can determine how she will be treated. To acquire some control over this process, women must contain it and interiorise it.
Men look at women.
Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves. One only has to watch the opening credits of Baywatch to notice that the girls are portrayed as looking, in sultry fashion, at the viewer, whereas the men are portrayed as doing something. The fact that women spend three times as much as men on their clothes and have three times as many clothes shops to visit as men have also lends considerable support to this idea. I remember Princess Di, some years ago, going on holiday with a few women friends and without Prince Charles, commenting in the press that it was such a nice holiday because as there were no men present she did not have to wear make-up or dress smartly.