The male gaze is a part of representation of female characters in not only video games, but other forms of media too.
The male gaze is a masculine, heterosexual point of view that bestows women as sexual objects solely for the pleasure of the straight male.
John Peter Berger – An English art critic who wrote the book “Ways of Seeing” which was a book that created the idea of the male gaze.
Laura Mulvey – She is mainly known for her essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” in her book named “Screen” which further explored the idea of the male gaze and the male perspective in film and cinema.
