Seth Rogen, star of the new comedy “Neighbors,” is not about to let anyone blame him or his movie for the killing spree in Isla Vista, Calif., that killed six people on Friday.
In a final videotaped message, echoes of the sexism, insecurity and entitlement that plague Hollywood: http://t.co/gR5pmR4c4x
— Ann Hornaday (@AnnHornaday) May 26, 2014
How is Rogen to blame, anyway (hypothetically speaking)? Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday laid out her case in a piece about the killings published Sunday. Hornady writes:
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). [Elliot] 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”?
.@AnnHornaday I find your article horribly insulting and misinformed.
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) May 26, 2014
That’s not much of an argument. What does anyone else think?
@Sethrogen @AnnHornaday I'm mystified how someone draws a line from "Neighbors" to this mentally ill piece of human garbage.
— JohnnyUtah'sBadKnee (@DrewMcWeeny) May 27, 2014
@DrewAtHitFix @AnnHornaday yeah. Me too.
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) May 27, 2014
@Sethrogen @AnnHornaday She's a twat. That is trying to make a name for herself. Just ignore her or sue her. She'll go away soon.
— Lainey E (@elainemills8970) May 27, 2014
https://twitter.com/sianamaste/status/471081199423983617
@JuddApatow @Sethrogen @AnnHornaday that column shows the danger of putting ideology over trying to understand why people behave how they do
— jon ronson (@jonronson) May 27, 2014
@JuddApatow @Sethrogen – @AnnHornaday column is terrible piece of "journalism". Ridiculously stupid theory on a deadly serious subject.
— Jonathan Hunt (@JonathanHunt007) May 27, 2014
@Sethrogen @DrewAtHitFix @AnnHornaday wait, did Tipper Gore write this? Start the time machine, Dr Peabody. Let's blame Marilyn Manson, too.
— Ryan J. Downey (@ryandowney) May 27, 2014
https://twitter.com/LighningJelly/status/471078502994030592
@Sethrogen @AnnHornaday Seeing a smart, funny guy get girls in movies does not cause the kind of rage displayed on Friday in Santa Barbara.
— Ryan (he,him) (@RyMB) May 27, 2014
https://twitter.com/melissa5001/status/471087191737651200
@tee15 @Sethrogen @AnnHornaday can anybody take account for their own actions now a days? Who's the next person you guys are going to blame?
— Kyle Wayne Kramer (@kylekramer300) May 27, 2014
Not everyone was so ready to let Hollywood off the hook, however.
https://twitter.com/tee15/status/471081163058987008
@Sethrogen @AnnHornaday probably because all of your movies reflect the male entitlment and misogyny that fueled his attack…nice beard tho
— trash williams (@autumnisafox) May 27, 2014
https://twitter.com/TheCianCarroll/status/471081622822191104
https://twitter.com/tee15/status/471084844466708480
@Sethrogen @AnnHornaday white privilege much? unfollowed. shut up, listen and learn, you schlubby underwhelming actor. #yesallwomen
— Melissa Ulto (@miixxy) May 27, 2014
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/471124087629414400
Speaking of:
@JuddApatow @Sethrogen @AnnHornaday See how absurd that piece was Judd? think abt that the next time you jump to blame the "gun culture"
— Alex (@Ajsoti) May 27, 2014
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