She’s getting all kinds of help from her friends at Victoria’s Secret. She probably slept with the doorguy to get them into that bar. She doesn’t need to study - she goes to Boston University.
“You would do that for me?” Erica replies, sarcastically. He was correcting her and patronizing her and outright insulting her, saying that it would be beneficial for her if he got into a final club as well, because he’d be able to introduce her to people she “wouldn’t normally get to meet.” Then again, this all started because some girl called Mark an asshole at a bar. A superficial look at the film might lead you to ask, “Hey, where are all the women?” And yeah, maybe women are tertiary characters in the film, because that’s how Mark and Eduardo and Sean and the Winklevoss twins see the women in their lives: as interns, as assistants, as psycho girlfriends. You watch it for, well, the dude-ness of it: the friendship between Mark and Eduardo (Andrew Garfield, “Silence”), the betrayal as Mark chooses Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake, “In Time”) and cuts Eduardo’s shares, the second betrayal as Sean gets caught with underage interns and cocaine. You don’t watch the film so that you can feel informed about some guy who made a website your parents use. Now, “The Social Network” is not meant to be a perfectly accurate biography, and there isn’t a 1:1 ratio between Jesse Eisenberg’s (“The Hummingbird Project”) Zuckerberg and Zuckerberg’s Zuckerberg. I just can’t help but think that a reference to the Turing test, which is meant to test whether or not a computer is capable of thinking like a human being, might relate to Mark’s ideas about how these women are barely human beings. In the scene and in the infamous blog posts, Zuckerberg seems to only mean in the algorithmic sense. It’s an offhand comment about how the website has “a whole ‘Turing’ feel.” But there’s something more telling about Zuckerberg in what he writes next in the slightly fictionalized version of his actual posts from November 2003. Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (“Molly’s Game”) gave the line about comparing women to farm animals to one of the fictional Zuckerberg’s roommates - perhaps so that the audience doesn’t find the protagonist completely deplorable from the outset.
Really, this was an actual website that existed. The inciting event of the film (and Facebook itself) revolves around Zuckerberg drunkenly designing a website to compare female Harvard students by their looks. The multi-billionaire cannot, however, wash away the creation of FaceMash. He was happily in a relationship with his girlfriend at the time, and there was no real-life version of Erica Albright (Rooney Mara, “A Ghost Story”) nor any crude reference to her below-average cup size, or so the real Zuckerberg says. The actual Mark Zuckerberg has often contested his portrayal in “The Social Network” (2010) as a vindictive, pathetic, insecure, power-hungry dropout.
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