Photographed on the street, often at uncomfortably close range, they look touchingly vulnerable, even when their gaze is averted.
Standing alone behind the glove counter, she's as vulnerable to the male gaze as the barmaid in Manet's The Girl in the Folies Bergere and the movie frames her in a series of images that emphasise her loneliness and isolation.
Their unflinching gazes have the weary, vulnerable quality of a people stripped bare.
What of her right to privacy, which was already violated when Pistorius shot and killed her? Reeva cannot give permission for millions to gaze upon her at her most vulnerable – in death.
Dick pics are noteworthy because they invert that dynamic, they're the opposite of what we're used to from men: they're vulnerable and they're premised on a female gaze.
I'd groan at gossip magazines, furious with the world's asinine obsession with celebrity, disappointed by women gazing doe-eyed at the camera with vulnerable, save-me expressions on their Botoxed faces.
My interviewees mentioned several additional neonatal rituals performed during the early post-natal period to protect a vulnerable newborn baby from illness, evil spirits and even the malicious gaze of jealous neighbours.
