gazing at the olympics.

I'm not really a sports person, but I've been paying a bit of attention to the olympics this year. There are obviously some big issues going on with Russia's anti-gay laws, and its been interesting to see how individuals, corporations and other countries have spoken against them.  One video, put out by The Canadian Institute of Diversity and Inclusion, jumped out at me particularly, because they play with the idea of male gaze in an interesting way. 

Can you spot the difference?

Usually we are more familar with seeing this image on the sports page...

But what if we viewed men's sports like that too?

The male gazze is usually defined as the heterosexual male's gaze, but Canada has given us a lovely example of what happens when you turn that into the homosexual male's gaze. 

If you want to look into this a tad more, hop on over to this article, where you can read and see more about the photography of women's vs men's sports.

But lest we forget,  its not just sports that is focusing on hilighting the female body, its everywhere!

So take a tip from the wonderful Kate Blanchett, and call it out when you see it. Most people don't even realize its going on.