These puritan activists larping as tech savvy victorian moralists should be ignored. While the “male gaze” jibe sounds enlightened and à la mode, it implicitly denies that women (especially the lesbian ones) have a gaze of their own, or asserts that it has been colonised by the omnipotent male gaze.
Don't take my word for it, here's noted feminist and professor Camille Paglia and Christina Hoff Sommers on the absurdity of the male gaze theory:
Don't take my word for it, here's noted feminist and professor Camille Paglia and Christina Hoff Sommers on the absurdity of the male gaze theory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3pjGd1v5xY