Voyeurism and the Male Gaze

The definition of Voyeurism is:
- The compulsion to seek gratification by secretively looking at objects or acts.
The short explanation is that you like being a peeping tom.
Sigmund Freud, the man who was the first to use catharsis theory, believed that men were meant to be voyeurs and that it's completely fine.
Which is in line with the catharsis theory which states that expressing or getting out one's aggression and anger should reduce the felling of aggression.
Voyeurism would apply the same principle except with satisfaction (be it sexual or otherwise.)
Mulvey wrote an essay entitled ''Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema'' in 1975 and it became quite influential.
The essay suggests that the way women are presented in cinema is in-equal to men.
The camera presents women as oversexualised play things purely for the satisfaction of men, a sex spectacle if you will.
There are several movies that try to subvert the stereotype however always end up using another stereotype which is the tomboy.