In episode #2 John Berger emphasized on how women are seen in the eyes of the spectators, how they are being judged as a women and how it still relates today.

The term “naked” here means to be oneself where as “nude” means to expose oneself in an object and not realizing the fact that you are actually being exposed. 

Berger restructured the classical nude paintings and compared it with the modern images of women advertisements so as to show where really the status of women stands in the world at large. That’s when he started analyzing the relationship between men and women and their differences in depth.He directed the path on how to perceive the paintings and images. The relations between the painter and the women performing for the painting is inseparable  and there is no way to miss the sight of the main women character even though there are dozens of other characters within the same image.

One contemporary example I can relate here is the famous and iconic former American  world #1 tennis player (Billie Jean King- an LGBT figure herself0 who who 39 grand slam titles. she wasn’t that famous until she tackled her inner self to the world that converted how others should see and treat every individual equally after she won “The Battle of the Sexes” match against a 55 years old Bobby RIGGS.

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