Dan's Brain

Male vs Female Gaze

video

  • Source: https://youtu.be/rQIwHD_ITIo

  • Tags: Internet Impact ,Gender, Evolutionary Psychology

  • media often cater toward a specific sex

    • this means the characters are portrait in very different ways
    • different characteristics

  • the difference in promisquity can be observed from a social level and from the nature realm

  • David Buss

    • evolutionary psychologist have a theory about these differences in Female and Male
    • traits good for the survival of the species (Natural Selection) will be most common in individuals
      • so male promiscuity and female pickiness should be traits developed to ease propagation of genes

  • many speculate the number of gametes of the sex to be a deciding factor in the difference in behavior and promiscuity

    • average male: 525 Bilion sperms
    • average female: 300 Thousand eggs by puberty

  • Stereotypes, what do them stem from?

    • men = pigs
      • attractiveness
        • in the evolutionary theory: used as an indicator of health and fecundity
      • stereotypical female in media:
        • attractive
        • not like other girls
        • “sex symbols”
    • women = gold diggers
      • status
        • paternal investment, higher in females just through gestation
        • lower testosterone in males in a relationship
          • most useful indicator of nurturing behavior
      • attractive/heathy less important
        • higher testosterone, higher
      • stereotypical archetype
        • good looks
        • sweet side
        • nurtiring and protective
      • Bieber study
        • the lyrics in the early albums:
          • sensitive
          • resourcefull
          • sweet boy
        • the lyrics in the later albums:
          • not cheesy anymore
          • more allusion to sex and drugs
            • in line with its demografic
    • many new web-stars in TikTok and other Social Media reach fame by following the male / female archetype

  • BUT

    • everybody values positive characteristic
      • these are necessities, but to different degrees to different people
    • stereotypes cater to a younger demografic, more prone to idealize the opposite sex and unknown experiences
      • experience in the real world changes the point of view