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Nice N Sleazy on Sauchiehall Street

A man watches 3 women walk past Nice N Sleazy, a bar on Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow

Nice N Sleazy is a bar on Sauchiehall Street. It’s like Brigadoon. Caught in its own special time when ideas like feminism didn’t exist.

I wonder what’s going through this guy’s head as he watches the three women pass the bar’s entrance. This is emblematic of who gets to watch whom.

It’s worth noting, however, that the women are watching something too. They’re not returning the man’s gaze. Instead, they’re watching something that lies beyond the frame.

In a way, the women are more interesting because they look to something that is unknowable. Unknowable, at least, to those of us who join the man in gazing at the women.