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"In 1973, Laura Mulvey came out with her paper, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. In it she explores psychoanalysis as a way to look at the narrative and characters of the modern cinema. In basic terms, this broke down to males as the drivers of plot and action and women left as the desired subject. As she puts it, “Woman as Image, Man as Bearer of Look.” (Mulvey, 4.) Now I do understand that we aren’t talking about film. However, I believe that her reading of psychoanalysis can be applied to the ways that we search for validation in Instagram. After all, are we not creating a visual plot for others to follow? It is structured on a narrative timeline."


http://instagram-validation.blogspot.com/   Do read the entire Blog. It's succinct, cohesive, true, and makes me want to finish that Cultural Studies/Soc. major I started four years ago because the world (esp. the TWO DIMENSIONAL world of 00's) today is rife with material to deconstruct and delineate! I was only working on that degree four years ago, too! It's unbelievable how much has changed and how much more garbage has been heaped onto le pile. But alas, Mulvey has highlighted women's positions as far back as the 70s so it should be no surprise. I hope when I have a daughter she has absolutely no need to flash her face on any type of social network to receive some sort of sense of worth or esteem.