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“But this isn’t for the male gaze,” she says.

The 41-year-old said: "Women age out of the male gaze. I was ripped from the male gaze at 24. I didn't just become invisible. I became a target for people saying derogatory things."

The male gaze had taken over, and women had internalized it.

The only way to get somewhere in life was to please the male gaze as an object of desire, to give birth, and have sex.

With an unabashed sexual predator in the White House, amid the social upheaval of #MeToo, full-coverage clothing became a kind of armor, worn in comfort, indifferent to the male gaze and traditional notions of sex appeal.