Aaron Sorkin, I can't understand why you're single.
So I haven't seen The Social Network and don't have too much desire to (especially now), but I saw an interview with Aaron Sorkin about it on the Colbert Report last week. Here is an excerpt:
Colbert: Can I ask you something about the ladies in it?
Sorkin: Sure. Yeah.
Colbert: Okay. You've got the opening scene which a lot of people have heard about, it's very crisp. It's Zuckerberg and his girlfriend, the one who broke his heart, that led him to make --
Sorkin: The girl who would start Facebook, yes.
Colbert: Exactly. She's super smart and she definitely gets the best of him.
Sorkin: Right.
Colbert: The other ladies in the movie don't have as much to say because they're high or drunk or BLEEPing guys in the bathroom. Why are there no other women of any substance in the movie?
Sorkin: That's a fair question. There is one other woman, Rashida Jones who plays a young lawyer in the deposition room --
Colbert: That's true, that's true, I apologize, she does not do anything in the bathroom.
Sorkin: She's a trustworthy character, she's a stand-in for the audience. The other women are prizes, basically.
Colbert: Are women at Harvard like that? That's what I want to know.
(The interview then digresses a little bit, letting Sorkin give a super misogynistic example when asked about the actual website Facebook, and then Sorkin goes on to reiterate that it's just that in this particular story, women function as prizes, with no indication that he sees that as any kind of problem.)
So let that be a lesson to you, ladies. You might get into Harvard with your "brains" and your "talent", but that doesn't make you any less of a prop. Maybe you should've been an asshole who did something so important to humanity as ~*~FACEBOOK~*~ if you wanted anyone to treat you like a human being.
I am both super impressed with Colbert, an actual male human, for noticing that this is problematic and having the balls to ask about it, when no other review I've read has mentioned it, and super unsurprised that Aaron Sorkin sees no issue with treating half of the human race as slutty furniture.
Colbert: Can I ask you something about the ladies in it?
Sorkin: Sure. Yeah.
Colbert: Okay. You've got the opening scene which a lot of people have heard about, it's very crisp. It's Zuckerberg and his girlfriend, the one who broke his heart, that led him to make --
Sorkin: The girl who would start Facebook, yes.
Colbert: Exactly. She's super smart and she definitely gets the best of him.
Sorkin: Right.
Colbert: The other ladies in the movie don't have as much to say because they're high or drunk or BLEEPing guys in the bathroom. Why are there no other women of any substance in the movie?
Sorkin: That's a fair question. There is one other woman, Rashida Jones who plays a young lawyer in the deposition room --
Colbert: That's true, that's true, I apologize, she does not do anything in the bathroom.
Sorkin: She's a trustworthy character, she's a stand-in for the audience. The other women are prizes, basically.
Colbert: Are women at Harvard like that? That's what I want to know.
(The interview then digresses a little bit, letting Sorkin give a super misogynistic example when asked about the actual website Facebook, and then Sorkin goes on to reiterate that it's just that in this particular story, women function as prizes, with no indication that he sees that as any kind of problem.)
So let that be a lesson to you, ladies. You might get into Harvard with your "brains" and your "talent", but that doesn't make you any less of a prop. Maybe you should've been an asshole who did something so important to humanity as ~*~FACEBOOK~*~ if you wanted anyone to treat you like a human being.
I am both super impressed with Colbert, an actual male human, for noticing that this is problematic and having the balls to ask about it, when no other review I've read has mentioned it, and super unsurprised that Aaron Sorkin sees no issue with treating half of the human race as slutty furniture.