Topic on Talk:Male Gaze
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Good points, and they gave me a reason to re-read the trope as it's written.
Twice.
We can't make it gender-neutral, as much as I prefer gender-neutral tropes - the trope is about how there's a double standard, there's been a double standard for as long as there's been films, the double-standard was identified a half-century ago, and it persists today.
Also, "Male Gaze" is a Real Life term. Renaming the trope would be like renaming Exactly What It Says on the Tin: possible, but ultimately counterproductive if we're making All The Tropes a reference site for everybody instead of just tropers.
So I'm going to have to revise my position here and say I'd rather we don't rename this trope.