As John Berger states throughout the video, the paintings in the Renaissance era are merely submissions to the male eye and really just a sight for the man viewing these paintings. While yes, the paintings of the women depicted in the paintings shown were pleasuring and stimulating the male audience, I’d refute that women today are being objectified similar to the ones in the painting. Now, especially in the world of social media and the modern world, women have more of a say and are free to do as they please. If they are posed in a way where they’re half naked, it’ll be due to their confidence. A woman who’s confident dresses how she wants to dress, not because of how a male views them. Or perhaps it’s what they rely on for their livelihood. Take modeling as an example. Women certainly do have a say over their images in the media, but it is definitely still determined by the male gaze. Men, whether we like to admit or not, have had our eyes caught by women on screen or tv who we find attractive. Almost kind of worshipping the view in a sense, whether it be a news reporter, an advertisement, etc. As photographs, images, movies, music videos, or portraits nowadays still tend to show women in a state of nudity, John Berger’s idea of sexuality within the images still in fact plays a role as the Renaissance paintings depict. Around the 11:30 minute mark of the “Ways of Seeing 2” video, images of women making eye contact to the viewer of the images are almost, if not, seducing in a matter where the audience is gravitated heavily.