Have you watched the recent "Fengsheng" trilogy?
As soon as the actor of the new version of Daji was confirmed, the media compared her with Wen Bixia, Fan Bingbing and others, but what the sheep paid the most attention to was not this...
Can anyone explain to me why the nine-tailed fox became a nine-breasted fox???
A lactating nine-tailed fox?
As a divine animal in ancient myths and legends on the mainland, the nine-tailed fox often appears in film and television dramas or games as a "fox spirit".
The earliest record I have about the nine-tailed fox is recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas——
The nine-tailed fox lives in the country of Qingqiu, has four legs and nine tails, sounds like a baby, and can eat people.
In the Tang and Han dynasties, the spread of papermaking exacerbated the demonization of "foxes", and the image of the nine-tailed fox fell from the altar, and the nine-tailed fox was also associated with words such as "lewd" and "flattering".
Even a beauty like Zhaojiao, which is defined by history as "calamity to the country and the people", is also called a fox demon by some people, and after this generation of transmission, the image of the nine-tailed fox has always been unable to get rid of a certain flattery.
But... what are you doing in the crew of "Fengshen "???
Let you do the concept design of the nine-tailed fox, did not let you get a nursing fox out...
Normal fox fur is fluffy, you not only have hair strands, but you can even see the coquettishness of a girl on your face?
And this boob really don't be too obtrusive, I said
The sisters take a closer look at the waist-hip connection of this nine-tailed fox!
This... Good guy, who's a fox demon in fox form sexy like this???
Normal foxes don't go out of their way to highlight a butt at all
The styling was scolded like this, and the main creator also had something to say.
This roughly means that the fox needs to be scary but can't help but get closer, and according to the Uncanny Valley effect, the more humanoid objects resemble people, the more favorable humans will gradually increase in favor of them.
Based on this theory, they adjusted the waist and crotch structure of foxes to the body shape of human girls, debugging the evil sense of human fox unity
Uh, do the sisters think this is like words...
The sheep can understand that the main creators want to create the hooked form of the nine-tailed fox, but wouldn't it be a little too much to use the girly form completely?
Although the nine-tailed fox painted by other artists has no female elements, it is still smart and charming
Source@GalaxiaWang
Why do you want to add such an image of human chest...
It is true that art is free, and everyone's imagination of mythological characters is different, but the nine-tailed fox shape of "Fengsheng" is really difficult to evaluate.
The sheep believe that this shape not only makes the sheep feel physically uncomfortable: the girl's waist and hips, white and thin, giant rue...
Fertility worship is not shown in this way, and the overly anthropomorphic "edge" style only makes people feel that they are the main creator's own personal XP.
The ubiquitous male gaze aesthetic
After this incident, a male painter in the circle of sheep friends wrote a small essay satirizing that the Internet's tolerance for art is too low and people's nerves are too sensitive.
The sheep asked excuse me on the spot?
But then I thought about it, because most of the people who feel uncomfortable with the nine-tailed fox are women, and as a man, he thinks it's art, and where does the discomfort come from for girls?
That's right, it's a strong and intuitive sense of male condensation.
The nine-tailed fox shape gives women a different look and feel than men, because this society is full of male gazes.
So, what is the male gaze?
This is a social phenomenon that refers to the fact that women are considered to be the second sex, and men enjoy the pleasure of peeping through various media or channels, becoming the first sex of viewing and gazing.
The male aesthetic refers to the aesthetic trend from the subjective perspective of men similar to the nine-tailed fox model.
The aesthetic of male condensation is divided into two points, one is intuitively visible to the naked eye, and the second is the female whole shaped by male imagination.
The first point is easy to understand, sheep to take the simplest example: glory of kings.
This is currently one of the most popular games in the country, and Baozi who has played it should have an intuitive feeling, and the female characters in it are generally sexy big-breasted girls.
Their portrayals mostly focus on their appearance and figure, and their clothing is usually half-observed.
They are usually not emphasized in skill as male hero roles, and more often they are like some kind of desire carrier due to the portrayal of clothing and figures.
In the same way, League of Legends is the same, and even gives heroines a girl group styling skin.
Daji's voice bag is also very explicit, and she will say in a very coquettish voice: Please command Daji to your heart's content, master.
To be honest, are the words "master" particularly suitable for some male XP?
And if that gaze is reflected on male characters, then they should be
Or maybe that's it
In addition, we can often see many elements with female symbols in film and television works.
For example, directors such as Jiang Wen and Quentin like to shoot actresses' feet very much
Some directors are obsessed with shooting the legs of young actresses
In many film and television works, the female body is used as an object to be gazed.
Even if the female body has nothing to do with the plot itself, it is often full of subjects placed under the camera
British feminist film theorist Laura Moore has proposed that the images and perspectives created by male directors and male photographers through the lens often regard women as objects like objects.
For example, Hitchcock prefers blondes, Quentin prefers thin female ankles, and Chen Sicheng will also "emphasize" female breasts in the movie...
In their lenses, women are not so much women as they are just gender symbols, and things with strong gender elements such as blonde hair and breasts become the vehicle for female characters to be gazed.
And the second gaze is somewhat arrogant.
For example, in the recently popular movie "Disappearing Her", the director's portrayal of the real and fake Li Muzi is very rigid.
Zhenli Muzi is kind, innocent, beautiful and rich, and the greatest value in this story is to pay off the debt.
But the prototype of the movie character Wang Nuannuan is an entrepreneur who works alone, she is not like a rich second generation who inherits the family property in the movie, and she is not a naïve artist.
And the director's portrayal of this character reminds the sheep of the European "Cult of the Virgin", a woman with all virtues, satisfying the man's imagination of the perfect woman, or the perfect partner.
And the director shot Li Muzi is such a perfect female illusion, not a living character.
In the narrative of male directors, they gaze at women not only at the flesh, but more often with their own understanding of women's scarcity to shape women's images.
Just like the portrayal of women's sincere friendship in "Disappearing Her" is to experience life and death together, or like many scripts female girlfriends are destined to become love rivals in the future.
How thin is the female figure in the male narrative?
If you love to read classical novels, you will find that the female characters in men's literature before the 19th century were either beautiful and docile and ignorant "angels" or fierce and coquettish and selfish "witches" images.
In modern times, the image of women has not become full and rich because of the progress of thought, and even films such as "Disappearing Her" under the banner of women's films still lack the imagination of women.
In literary and artistic works, women still exist as objects to be examined and imagined.
How to get rid of the male gaze?
Unfortunately, I can't get rid of it.
Sheep has a male photographer friend once complained to sheep, such as photo opportunities male photography is never as good as female photography, female customers will choose female photographers more often.
He was distressed, but couldn't find what the problem was.
In fact, to put it bluntly, the different perspectives of male and female photographers determine the different look and feel of the final presentation of the film.
Sheep does not mean that all male photographers' photos carry a male gaze, but men, as the subject of the shoot, must have a greater gaze on female customers than women.
Just like the photo collection "Zhu Fengjuan" that went viral on Weibo a few days ago, photographer Dai Jianyong used the lens to record every moment about his wife.
But these photos are not entirely beautiful, there are crying, there is vomiting, there is confusion, there is pain when pregnancy ...
This collection is praised by many people as a masterpiece, but many women only feel depressed and painful after reading it.
The suffering and unbearability of women are thus coldly recorded, and people think that this is art, but do not consider that the object being examined becomes an artistic commodity at this moment.
Her emotions are being "sold" and re-examined by art.
The cruel truth is that even if we feel uncomfortable, few people question the work, because we are used to this gaze.
In a society dominated by male-based thinking, men have been the party who has mastered social resources since ancient times, and women are more like "social resources" under the patriarchy -
Being scrutinized is the norm, and competition for more powerful social resources (referring to men) is also a means of improving one's status.
This can be seen in popular novels on the Internet
In male novels, female characters are generally tool people in love brains, they are beautiful, sensitive and fragile, and their images are flat.
But in women's novels, male characters are generally fuller than female characters, they are strong, brave and domineering, smart and full of power.
Did you notice the difference?
Men write about women from a top-down perspective, while women write about men often in a posture of looking up.
In the world of fiction, men choose to save themselves, while women are often saved by others.
From the different images of men and women in popular novels, we can roughly glimpse the power structure of society.
Even if today's social thinking is very advanced, and women can achieve self-worth through personal efforts, the sense of gaze that has existed for thousands of years is difficult to break in an instant.
There are many discussion stickers about male condensation, and many sisters will say that they choose to stare back in the face of male condensation.
But the sheep don't actually recognize this.
Teacher Dai Jinhua said: When you reverse the gender perspective to consume the male body, it seems to be a counterattack to men, but in fact it is just a copy of the patriarchal structure.
This is a very brutal logical system, a change of power, which can only bring about gender opposition rather than true equality.
There is only one way to eradicate male coagulation, which requires men to be able to truly empathize with women.
But as far as the current social structure is concerned, the best way to get rid of male condensation is to enrich your own wings, physically and mentally strong enough not to care about the gaze of others.
Ignoring male condensation may be the best way to fight back.