The Social Network Movie You Won’t See

crookedindifference:

I haven’t read The Accidental Billionaires on which the movie was supposedly based, but peruse the first five chapters of David Kirkpatrick’s The Facebook Effect and this narrative of unmitigated misogyny falls apart. FaceMash included hot or not lists for both sexes, not just women; and though it offended women’s groups on campus, Zuckerberg mended fences with the Association of Harvard Black Women by assisting them with their website – not quite the unrepentant jerk of the film version. Far from being a lonely nerd, Zuckerberg “was rarely without a girlfriend.” And the company culture was not completely hostile to strong, smart women: at least one who influenced the company from the start, Tricia Black, was written out of the story deliberately by the screenwriters.

Emphasis mine. The one part of the movie that annoyed me was it’s portrayal of women as partying tagalongs. They tried to redeem that with the role of his exgirlfriend although she was even objectified. Only the women lawyers got off ‘clean’ in thier portrayal.