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Representation

What is representation?
The ways in which the media portrays particular groups, communities, experiences, ideas, or topics from a particular ideological or value perspective.

The roles of women in Humans:

  • Mother
  • Caregiver
  • Prostitute
  • Maid 
  • Butler
  • Friend 
  • Slave
  • Rebel 
Madonna/Whore Complex 
The inability to maintain sexual arousal within a committed, loving relationship. First identified by Sigmund Freud, under the rubric of psychic impotence, this psychological complex is said to develop in men who see women as either saintly Madonnas or debased prostitutes. Men with this complex desire a sexual partner who has been degraded (the whore) while they cannot desire the respected partner (the Madonna). Freud wrote: "Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love."

Sigmund freud developed a theory to explain men's anxiety towards women's sexuality. suggesting that men define women into on of two categories: The Madonna (women he admirers and respects) and the Whore (women he is attracted to and therefore disrespects).
  • The Madonna is typically virtuous, nurturing, saintly, and sexually repressed. 
  • The whore is sensual, sexualised, and desirable without purity. 

What representations of gender are encoded in the scenes?
Women are seen and used as sexual objects. This is evident in the scene with the synth who is working as a prostitute. On the flip side, the families teenage daughter is seen watching an interview about the synths as she tries to better understand how they work. This is a representation of women being smart and working within STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Maths).     

What functions do the male and female bodies serve? How do you know? 
Female synths have been sexualised and used by men to gain sexual gratification. Where as the human females have not ben sexualised and are treated as well respected members of the community.  Male bodies of both synths and human have not been widely represented in the show. However, it can be said that the dad of the house is not comfortable doing the jobs around the house when the mother is away. Instead he resorts to buying a female synth to do it for him. 

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