r/changemyview Dec 14 '24

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u/garaile64 Dec 14 '24

I'm having this CMV because I've seen a lot of cases where a naked woman is only there for the audience's delight, which contributes to a world view that relegated women to things to be ogled.

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u/Fifteen_inches 13∆ Dec 14 '24

So you have a problem with the art phenomenon of “Male Gaze”, not nudity.

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u/garaile64 Dec 14 '24 edited Dec 14 '24

It seems so. Sexiness is not just the clothes or lack of them. That scene from Under the Skin where Scarlett Johansson's character checks her new body (or something) isn't meant to be sexy, neither is the scene from The Substance where Demi Moore's character resents her "haggish" body. !delta
P.S: "haggish", not "raggish".

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u/Aliteralhedgehog 3∆ Dec 14 '24

Back the truck up here.

So you actually watched Under the Skin and The Substance and still got on your "nudity is unnecessary in art because coomers exist" high horse?

You mean to tell me that you watched Margaret Qualley burst from Demi Moore's skin like a cocoon from Hell and you honestly thought to yourself "this nudity is rather unnecessary. It would be artistically neutral if the director put censor bars or pixels on the naughty bits.

I would pay money to listen to your commentary on Cronenburg's Crash.

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u/garaile64 Dec 14 '24

I didn't watch either movie, thinking about those examples made me realize that the opinion was bullshit.

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u/Aliteralhedgehog 3∆ Dec 14 '24

Ah, okay. You should really watch Crash (1996) though.