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Common symptoms of [[Male Gaze]] include assuming that the audience will identify or empathize primarily with male characters, and will have typically male experiences, preferences and expectations. (The former is actually enforced in Young Adult publishing, as it is an accepted fact that [http://www.scoutingmagazine.org/issues/0809/a-guys.html boys dislike reading books about girls] and thus general-audience YA novels must have male leads.)

This is by no means a new phenomenon - see [http://www.lyons.co.uk/Titian/bigh1/Magda.htm this picture] of Mary Magdalene, done in [[Older Than Steam|the 1500s]]. The story runs that towards the end of her life, she became a hermit, and grew her hair so long she didn't need clothes. Nevertheless, the painter has decided to paint her without the hair covering everything that [[Godiva Hair|it otherwise might]], and not as a particularly old woman.

This is by no means a new phenomenon - see [https://web.archive.org/web/20110114090539/http://www.lyons.co.uk/Titian/bigh1/Magda.htm this picture] of Mary Magdalene, done in [[Older Than Steam|the 1500s]]. The story runs that towards the end of her life, she became a hermit, and grew her hair so long she didn't need clothes. Nevertheless, the painter has decided to paint her without the hair covering everything that [[Godiva Hair|it otherwise might]], and not as a particularly old woman.