A columnist named Ann Hornaday called out actor Seth Rogen for encouraging batshit crazy teenager Elliot Rodger to commit the shooting in Santa Barbra, CA, that took the lives of 6 students of the University of California last week.
Here's excepts of her op-ed for the Washington Post:
As Rodger bemoaned his life of “loneliness, rejection and unfulfilled desire” and arrogantly announced that he would now prove his own status as “the true alpha male,” he unwittingly expressed the toxic double helix of insecurity and entitlement that comprises Hollywood’s DNA. For generations, mass entertainment has been overwhelmingly controlled by white men, whose escapist fantasies so often revolve around vigilantism and sexual wish-fulfillment (often, if not always, featuring a steady through-line of casual misogyny). Rodger’s rampage may be a function of his own profound distress, but it also shows how a sexist movie monoculture can be toxic for women and men alike.
How many students watch outsized frat-boy fantasies like “Neighbors” and feel, as Rodger did, unjustly shut out of college life that should be full of “sex and fun and pleasure”? How many men, raised on a steady diet of Judd Apatow comedies in which the shlubby arrested adolescent always gets the girl, find that those happy endings constantly elude them and conclude, “It’s not fair”?
Even if 51 percent of our movies were made by women, Elliot Rodger still would have been seriously ill. But it’s worth examining who gets to be represented on screen, and how. It makes sense to ask, as cartoonist Alison Bechdel does in her eponymous Bechdel Test, whether a movie features (1) at least two named female characters who (2) talk to each other about (3) something besides a man. And it bears taking a hard look at whether we’re doing more subtle damage to our psyches and society by so drastically limiting our collective imagination. As Rodger himself made so grievously clear, we’re only as strong as the stories we tell ourselves.
Wow. This is disgusting. Not only was this twisted slaughter rampage absolutely horrible, this op-ed is really bad. Seth Rogen is a filmmaker who makes comedy films that make people laugh, feel good and enjoy themselves while watching them. This film Neighbors so happens to partially take place at fraternity. To blame him as a reason for the shooting makes you look like a fucking idiot.
This bitch shot those people because they turned him down. He deserved to be turned down, because he's a weirdo and batshit fucking crazy!! The film was released just two weeks ago. It had nothing to do with the shooting, and I bet you he never seen it because he's too busy flaunting his fancy car and designer sunglasses and making videos showing them off. He's also the son of a film producer and a famous reality show star; that explains how he gets those things. And no matter how rich he is, it doesn't help the fact that he's nuts!!
So, disgusted by what he read, Rogen took to his Twitter page and tweeted this:
.@AnnHornaday how dare you imply that me getting girls in movies caused a lunatic to go on a rampage.
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) May 26, 2014.@AnnHornaday I find your article horribly insulting and misinformed.
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) May 26, 2014His longtime collaborator, actor/director Judd Apatow extremely agreed with this:
“@Sethrogen: .@AnnHornaday I find your article horribly insulting and misinformed.”She uses tragedy to promote herself with idiotic thoughts
— Judd Apatow (@JuddApatow) May 27, 2014So Ann, if you want to blame someone, blame the producers of Alpha Dog. The film was shot in and based in Santa Barbara, where some fuck starts shootings. He even referenced the film in his pathetic videos, and caused him to target the city in his shooting. That influenced the cuntface to do his dirty deed.
I'll end this with a quote from many people I hear it from: "Get Your Facts Straight".
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