Wednesday, October 06, 2010

The Social Network: Another Male-Centric Movie Where Women are "Prizes"

The Social Network is reportedly a good movie as long as you can stomach seeing women portrayed as less than fully human things there to service men in bathrooms, or as the film's screenwriter Aaron Sorkin describes them, "the women are prizes."

It's not like we aren't used to films that depict women as sub-human prizes for the fully human half of the species, still this is pretty damn low for the creator of West Wing. Stephen Colbert can't be the only one to marvel at this portrayal of Harvard women.

Melissa Silverstein describes the "prizes":


And from Rebecca Davis O'Brien:


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