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male gaze

depiction of girls and women as sexual objects for the pleasure of a male, heterosexual viewer
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male gaze
Thomas Rowlandson · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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male gaze

Summary

male gaze is an idiom[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of idiom entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,535 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • male gaze's image is recorded as An Irish Compliment Met DP884695.jpg[3].
  • male gaze's instance of is recorded as idiom[4].
  • male gaze's subclass of is recorded as gaze[5].
  • male gaze's subclass of is recorded as objectification[6].
  • male gaze's opposite of is recorded as female gaze[7].
  • male gaze's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0130g_4q[8].
  • male gaze's Quora topic ID is recorded as Male-Gaze[9].
  • male gaze's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as male-gaze[10].
  • male gaze's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as gender gap on Dutch Wikipedia[11].
  • male gaze's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2778555616[12].
  • male gaze's TV Tropes ID is recorded as Main/MaleGaze[13].
  • male gaze's Homosaurus ID is recorded as homoit0002041[14].
  • male gaze's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2778555616[15].
  • male gaze's museum-digital tag ID is recorded as 157562[16].
  • male gaze's Homosaurus ID is recorded as homoit0002041[17].

Why It Matters

male gaze ranks in the top 1% of idiom entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,535 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] It is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). male gaze. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/male-gaze
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_male-gaze_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{male gaze}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/male-gaze}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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