Humans- Representation Analysis

Gender Roles/Gender/Stereotypes

Gender 

Men are conveyed to be needy, the father needs help with looking after the children which is why Anita is bought in the first place, they are conveyed as being reliant on women.

Women are conveyed as being strong evident by the mum's strong commitment to her job. On the other hand the prostitute robot is portrayed as an object as well as Anita who is portrayed as a slave since she does all the chores and the up keep in the household.

Gender Roles

- There is a shift in gender roles since the father stays at home and watches the children whilst the mother goes out and works away
- The prostitute robot is degraded by the people they service, robots in general are since there is a choice of adding "adult" settings which is consensual towards the robots, adding to the idea that they are slaves the humans
- The mother is de-feminised since Anita's arrival; the mother clearly says to Anita that she doesn't like her reading to her daughter, also the strained relationship between the the children and their mother conveys that the mother is losing her maternal instinct since she can't clearly see the problem.

Age

- Old vs Young - Levi Strauss Binary Opposites
- Old age is visually conveyed through features such as wrinkles, grey hair and attachment to old objects as well as the old man having dementia which is common in many older people{Stereotypes

Relationships 

- The parents have no passion towards each other and no connection which is common with broken relationships in that age demographic
- Anita and the mother have no connection and the mother is jealous of her replacement
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