Male Gaze Case Study

The concept of the male gaze is the idea that the audience is forced to view women through the eyes of a hetereosexual male. In regards to the depiction of female criminals in the media, the male gaze views them as victims. The woman is almost always looked at as though she was somehow the victim, and that the other person involved is at fault. Though, if the woman in the case is homosexual, she will then be viewed as a man hater, because she is not interested in men. She will also be viewed as the offender, even if she is partially the victim. The case that I found is about a female teacher that had sex with a male student. In the article she is portrayed as a “blonde beauty”, this shows that even though she is an offender, she is still looked at as being “sexy” and possibly being a victim, since she was caught. The media definitely focused on this event using the male gaze. Using the words “blonde beauty” is extremely unprofessional when talking about a sexual predator. It seems that most articles use the male gaze to talk about female sexual predators.

2. The idea of deserving and undeserving victims in the media is that people will judge someone based on what they look like, where they live,
The point of a class like this is to show the students how the media can warp the actual incident they are reporting about. This allows the students to realize that they should do their own research from multiple news article before formulating an opinion on what happened in a particular event. This helps us become more intelligent media consumers, and shows us how the criminal justice system is affected by the media. I would like to become and animal control officer, and being an intelligent consumer of media will help me in this job because it will allow me to take people's reports and analyze what they say before coming to my own conclusion on what might have happened. It might impact my job by changing my opinion on a particular event and the offender