Gender Representation in The Social Network: Women Portrayed as Objectified - Prof. Christ, Study notes of Creative writing

Download Gender Representation in The Social Network: Women Portrayed as Objectified - Prof. Christ and more Study notes Creative writing in PDF only on Docsity! WRA 110 – Writing: Science & Technology In-Class Assignment #3 – The Social Network Response In The Social Network, the creators of the movie depicted women mainly as unintelligent. Early on in the movie, Mark Zuckerberg breaks up with his girlfriend and goes back to his dorm to blog about it. He says many bad things about his ex-girlfriend, but the one that sticks out to me is when he compares her to a farm animal. She obviously disliked this statement as well because she brought it up to him when he went to talk to her about their break- up. Another scene in the movie where women are depicted as unintelligent is when Mark comes up with his website and they are talking about it in his dorm. There are two females in the room and one of them asks if they can do anything to help with the website. Mark immediately denies them after he gives every male in the room a job to do. Mark is very intelligent, and the creators of this movie made his character depict women as unintelligent since Mark wouldn’t let them help with the website. The creators also depict women in this movie based on their looks. In the scene where Mark blogs about breaking up with his girlfriend, he also creates a website that allows anyone to rate pictures of females. They see a picture of a female face and rate it 1-10. The creators are depicting women in this scene because they are implying that looks are the only thing that matter for women. Another scene that is an example of women being depicted on their looks is when Mark and his best friend Eduardo meet with Sean Parker. Eduardo brings his girlfriend along for the meeting just to look good. As soon as Sean walks up to them, he immediately asks her what she wants to drink and orders it for all of them. This shows that Sean thinks she is only there for her looks and not for business.