#the year is 2049 and technology is still being designed primarily by men

[dragonridingsorceress]

I watched Blade Runner 2049 for the first time tonight, and this scene stood out.

"Being asked personal questions" by someone you've just met, especially someone you've just met who is trying to decide if you're human enough to have rights, is not "invigorating", in my experience. It doesn't make me "feel desired".

But it seems to be the sort of thing (cishet) men think, and maybe what they think women would/should think. And Luv is a replicant, made by (and for) a man. This made a lot of the Blade Runner world building click for me: the "female" replicants' behaviour patterns have been designed by men based on their perceptions/desires of women, not on real women.

The final still really clinches it for me: Luv asks K a personal question, to make him feel desired, even though he's a replicant - because that is the role of "female" replicants, and the behaviour she's been programmed with: to make men feel desired.