Gender and Gaze

After I had got home on Monday, I walked into my parents watching an episode of Sindfeld that had a scene that fit perfectly with the idea presented in the chapter that related to gender and gaze. There is a scene within this section of the show that shows both a man and a woman walking around naked. It is perfectly acceptable to see the woman naked, yet when the man walks around with no clothes on, he is told that it is just not right, or that it is just not a good kind of naked. In the book it says that the first art introduced was male nude, then woman came into the picture and it was said that the dominint viewer was the male. If it was men who were accepted in the nude first, then why is it in this episode on tv that it is so wrong for a man to walk around naked, yet so normal for a woman?


This is a very long clip, so I will point out the spots in it that I am talking about. The first scene starts at 2 minutes and 45 seconds and the second scene starts at 4 minutes. Enjoy!