More like it started with Pygmalion, and Bernard Shaw did a pretty good job of pointing out that Pygmalion kinda sucked at considering the idea that the “creation” might be a person with their own desires and free will.

I think whether a cinematic Sci-Fi work is reinforcing objectification of women or not depends on how they contextualize the creation, purpose, and portrayal of the female android in question. If the work in question has the first female android be created and/or used early and often for explicitly sexual purposes,…

It’s more that Hollywood uses women to represent sexbots. There is a really disturbing trend of “Let’s make a woman robot, and make her SEXY. A SEXY slave.”