From my understanding the concept of the gaze is the psychological comparison between who is doing the looking and what they see verses what other people see, which can be completely different.
I find this common in todays magazines about women and women beauty. Women are constantly wanting other features that other women may have. What they don't realize is that those other women might want their features. Magazines are constantly telling women how to look a different way instead of loving what they already have.
Many women want to look like the women they see in magazines. What they don't realize is that those women don't actually look like that. Their pictures have been altered with applications such as Photoshop to create an unrealistic image of beauty. So they're seeing a false image of beauty, comparing themselves to it and pressuring themselves to look like this false image. Not realizing the beauty that other people see in them. Just concerned of what their false ideal of beauty is.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/08/08/swinson.airbrushing.ads/
http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/17/what-your-teens-are-reading/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
Heres another example
Teens always want to look older and older women want to look younger.
Why can't they love being their own age? Probably because the women their age in magazines have been altered to look different. Young teenagers will have makeup and thinner faces that are altered and older women in magazines wont have wrinkles gray or gray hair.
http://www.wikihow.com/Look-Older-As-a-Teen
http://www.wikihow.com/Look-Younger-and-Feel-Better
Instead of always seeing beauty that we don't have. All women should learn to love the beauty they do have that other women envy. Remember all the magazine images of beauty ... aren't real!
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