aaron sorkin remains aaron sorkin.

[yeats]

How to get under Aaron Sorkin’s skin (and also, how to high-five properly)

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[etherealtsuki]

plus, i challenge you to find any liberally minded middle class White american in their 20s/30s for whom "the west wing" wasn't central to their political development

Fixed. Really, OP?

[yeats]

:-/ yeah, gonna edit that out -- among the people i know, it's not a class/racial signifier? but obvs i am wrong.

[encircleme]

Still, your edit describes me to a tee but I've never watched The West Wing.

[amyura]

Same.

[dumblesinwinter]

wow, he's an ass.

the west wing is still my favorite tv show of all time.

[runonmoonlight]

Yep. Pretty much!

Not my absolute favourite (Farscape, forever), but the first 3 seasons or so are definitely up there. But CJ will always be one of my favourite tv ladies for her intelligence, humour, anger, and the beautiful (but sporadic) slapstick comedy from Alison Janney. I appreciate Donna more and more the older I get.

[13chapters]

Donna tops the shit out of Josh all the time. He loves it.

p.s. am drunk right now.

[runonmoonlight]

Ahahaha. You've seen season 7 right? When Josh is all tired, and Donna shows up at his place, he starts to go "I'm too tired to talk" and she just climbs on top of him?

So basically, yes :D

[corinn]

Ugh the arrogance and misogyny uuuugh. I just want to say "shut up SHUT UP SHUT UP" to him.

Ahahaha, 28, never seen a single episode of West Wing. I didn't particularly give a fuck about politics til like 2007, with the internet being central to my political development.

[lovedforaday]

I always saw TWW being a thing amongst older people. 30s/40s at the youngest moreso than 20s.

[baked_goldfish]

I always figured it for a "already into politics and you live on the East Coast" thing. Or a "came from SportsNight fandom after Sorkin abandoned that" thing. I don't know too many people who watched it and then decided they were interested in politics, and I know way more who were into politics and decided to check out TWW for a few episodes.

[pandaseal]

“I think I would have done very well, as a writer, in the forties,” he says. “I think the last time America was a great country was then, or not long after. It was before Vietnam, before Watergate.”

Well, that tells me a whole lot.

[devour_theflesh]

It's weird to me how casually white dudes throw things like this out.

[pandaseal]

IKR? I mean, I think of the 40s, I think of lynching, Jim crow, eugenics (this is not an all inclusive list) and but apparently their minds go to something completely different. Must be nice.

[devour_theflesh]

I remember a friend of mine saying "I would love to go back and live during the old west. This country has been downhill since then." and I said "Yeah, during the whole genocide against the Native Americans, slavery, before women had the right to vote.. good times." Suffice to say, he still didn't get it.

[leaf_kunoichi]

I'm liberally minded, American, in my 30s and really did not like The West Wing. That, and really, I wouldn't say that any fictional television show was central to my political development.