This essay is a classic example of poor critique of depictions of race and culture in media. The film depicts every male within it as a slimeball and it's core theme is about objectification. Projecting the intent and feelings of those characters, who are clearly and obviously depicted in a negative way, onto the author is ridiculous.

It largely stems from the reading that the ending being sympathetic to Caleb, which I imagine happened mostly from atrocious media literacy. Caleb wasn't the protagonist, Ava was.

> I can't even being to tell you how offended and disturbed I was by the treatment of women of color in this movie. I slept restlessly the night after I saw Ex Machina, woke up muddled at 2:45 AM and - still clinging to the hope that there must have been a reason for treating women of color this way (Garland's brilliant right?) - furiously went to work reading interviews and critiques. Aside from a few brief mentions of race/gender, I found barely anything addressing the film's obvious deployment of racialized gender stereotypes for its own benefit.

If everyone else is not seeing a race problem, but you are, the problem may be you, not the material.

Rage bait

We never see Kyoko speak in the film, which is explained away by Nathan as being because she does not speak English. The implication is that she is an earlier model than Ava, with less intelligence.