Breaking Free From the Male Gaze: Harley Quinn
Harley Quinn as a character has fascinated me endlessly ever since I watched the film, Birds of Prey later falling into an endless cycle of information about her. Her crackhead energy, witty one-liners are something I live for. However, you might be thinking is this merely a post simping for the one, true Harley Quinn? And to that I say, develop some patience. Today, I will be analyzing how the Male Gaze transformed and affected Harley's character through her wardrobe choices and how they have changed. Firstly, let me define what the Male Gaze is: ' In feminist theory, the male gaze is the act of depicting women and the world, in the visual arts and in literature, from a masculine, heterosexual perspective that presents and represents women as sexual objects for the pleasure of the heterosexual male viewer'. I apologize for bringing up painful trauma for some, but remember Suicide Squad 2016? Yes, I don't either but I have scrolled through Instagram enough that Har...
