(14) dollhouse 6, again

I re-watched Dollhouse’s sixth episode and wrote down all the scenes that were pertinent to my argument. It turns out that there were quite a lot of scenes that reinforced my claim, which helped a lot. The main scene that I chose to use though was the one where Ballard and his co-worker talk about the Dollhouse case. The co-worker comments on Echo’s looks and says things about her that could definitely be classified as anti-feminist. My main argument is basically that the show shows strong evidence of objectification and condescension of the female characters, and how that relates to modern times. I touch on the parallelism to prostitution, and how Dollhouse can be seen as a high-class prostitution company. The show also undermines the gravity and cruel nature of this kind of business, in a way legitimizing the exchange of sex and pleasure for money. I wasn’t too sure about this argument at first because there are really two sides to it and there is definitely some evidence of pro-feminism as well, however I was able to see more evidence against it and therefore chose to base my claim on that premise. In episode 6 alone I was able to come up with around 5 different scenes that showed women as objects or inferior. Sierra gets raped, Mellie gets dumped by some guy because she isn’t perfect, etcetera. I really hope I am able to really back up everything I say with the scenes from the show, and hopefully my episode analysis turns out alright.