John Berger illuminates the importance of seeing. “Seeing…establishes our place in the surrounding world” and is the basis on which we form our beliefs and experiences. In asking us (the readers) to re-imagine a one of the nude paintings, Berger is alluding to the extreme power and control we have over what we see. Like Berger, Mulvey addresses the malleability of sight by discussing the ways in which film can construct how an audience views certain subject matter. I see this concept playing out in the “real world” in terms of how people choose to dress and display themselves to the rest of the world through clothing, haircuts and makeup. In our decisions to dress a certain way (butch, femme, preppy, punk etc) we are acknowledging the power we have to manipulate the sense of sight. Mulvey and Berger both acknowledge societies ability to re-imagine things in a way that is more pleasing to an individual. So what it is that devalues this power we have over establishing ourselves in the surrounding world? Why is it that if we deviate from the norms of how we’re supposed to appear to the outside world (women=feminine, men=masculine) then we evoke a sense of “violence” (as Berger puts it)? Why does it scare people (and societies) so much when we see something that doesn’t appear normal?