Aaron Sorkin’s Disturbing Need to Humiliate Sarah Palin Might Explain ‘The Social Network’s’ Ugly Portrayal of Women

After last night’s Super Bowl I watched “The Social Network” again, this time with screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s obsessively dark rage towards Governor Sarah Palin in mind. The first time I saw director David Fincher’s cold but compelling story involving all the emotional and legal entanglements behind the founding of Facebook, I wasn’t aware of Sorkin’s platinum membership in the HeManConservativeWomanRager’s Club. I knew he was a jerk, everyone knows that, but this strange, twisted need of his to publicly demean and humiliate Governor Palin hadn’t yet revealed itself and with that in mind, it added a whole new subtext to a story that even some liberal critics found unsettling for its almost universally degrading portrayal of women."