The creepier dichotomy nestled within this one is that, in the humanity-as-intelligence model, this only mostly applies to male-coded robots. In stories where fembots (often sexbots) are viewed as aware, their humanity is more often proved by feeling - notably love or suffering.
I've seen the first season, and wrote a huge review of it here: https://fozmeadows.wordpress.com/2017/01/10/westworld-dehumanising-the-other/ …
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yay! (I would expect nothing less) *runs off to read*
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This line: "the straight white male gaze is still so embedded as a lazy default that Westworld ends up amplifying its biases more often than it critiques them." YES.
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