...Where'd it go?: Baby Got Back

Isn't that what Male Gaze is?

I thought it was guys staring at women.

^^ Not according to its lead paragraph, at least. It's the second paragraph that says "as a result of this..."

edited 15th Jan '12 11:05:23 AM by Stratadrake

The trope is that cameras always have a Male Gaze. They focus on female body parts, not male. The establishing shot of a female character walking on scene will move up her body from ankles up or something similar. That's Male Gaze. Not dudes looking at hot broads. That's just chairs.

That's not chairs. That assumes there is no purpose. Are you confusing Truth in Television for PSOC?

Nope. Women being more attractive to everyone in-universe because of larger breasts or an amazonian figure is a trope. Men being attracted to women and looking at them isn't. The camera looking at women's figures is. Unless you can explain something that I'm not seeing.

When have you ever seen a guy looking at an attractive women in fiction, and it was treated as something insignificant as tying shoes? That is what makes PSOC, not one just claiming something isn't a trope.

edited 15th Jan '12 11:28:42 AM by DragonQuestZ

"When have you ever seen a guy looking at an attractive women in fiction, and it was treated as something insignificant as tying shoes?"

Constantly.

edited 15th Jan '12 11:32:54 AM by Martello

I would like specific scenes of people sitting on chairs, please. Preferably with timecode, so I can verify.

I think Eating the Eye Candy is supposed to be Male Gaze or Female Gaze from the perspective of a character in the story. It might be related to this topic.

edited 15th Jan '12 11:45:48 AM by captainpat

Knock it off, you two.

edited 15th Jan '12 12:00:57 PM by FastEddie

"I think Eating the Eye Candy is supposed to be Male Gaze or Female Gaze from the perspective of a character in the story. It might be related to this topic."

Okay, so we have some form of this trope (although the first paragraph makes it look always female). My contention to post #29 is that a guy looking at a "hot broad" is not PSOC, as it often leads to several directions in a story, or at least is to help establish characterization of the gazer and/or gazee.

If not every instance of the trope is that, all that would need is one instance of a guy staring, and it having no such purpose. That wouldn't mean there isn't a trope, just that a few examples of a guy staring actually are PSOC, while the others fit in proper tropes.

As for "Baby Got Back", I think most examples would fall under general tropes about finding parts of the body attractive.

On the whole body part thing, the Protag in Ai Kora has an obsession over his "perfect body part" each person in his "Harem" has one piece Catlike Eyes, Bullet train breasts, belly dancer hips, feet, back and so on... A guy has his perfect ass...

I think a person with an obsession over a certain body part I think is very trope worthy.

How about turning Baby Got Back into a trope where the girl flaunts her asses' large size, like Lucy did in Fairy Tail? Kinda like a Sub-Trope of The Tease?

edited 15th Jan '12 1:46:30 PM by Serocco

Can we lock this? The trope was cut, so there's no point in keeping this thread open. If you want to make a new trope to replace it, that's a project for YKTTW, not TRS. TRS is for fixing existing tropes, not making new ones.

Good point. Locking this.