Yeah, I can at least see the reason people defend the one about loving her husband more than her kids, but the one about how she wants to be the cool mom to a gay kid was mind-bogglingly awful.

I loved Bow's attempt to do the "put you in the oven" bit. It WAS scary when she did it! And delightful.

The Infinite Jest bit made me sublimely happy.

It's also intimidating because, as she said, it's like skipping six relationship steps, magnified because of the time and cost commitment of the trip. Meeting the parents=often kind of a big deal. Meeting the parents as a houseguest for the holidays in a foreign country? Yeah.

My MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop will join you.

I'm basing it on Sorkin's public behavior over the last ten or twelve years (both in interviews, remarks from other writers, his behavior at the old TWOP forums, and his tendency to write thinly veiled and self-serving versions of his personal real life people and situations in his work), sociologically demonstrated…

I guess Sorkin's going to lose his chance to play in the NFL before going to Stanford Medical School now.

And exposing himself to financial ruin is information relevent to Jane's plans for the baby. He withheld information from her.

I'm more and more interested in Petra, to be honest.

Because number 3 is incredibly patronizing and condescending. Sorkin did a similar bit in Studio 60 when two male actors had to explain to the female comedian, who was successfully managing two different platforms, why it was awful for her to pose in a bathing suit. We aren't ignoring it; we are saying it is…

I'm not sure what is sadder—that he is comparing himself to "To Kill a Mockingbird," or that he implicitly assumes that a rape victim is "other" to a viewer. She is our sister, our daughter. . .not us.

The "enthusiastic support" bugs me so much, because I flat out do not believe it. In part because I've been that woman in a junior position who got screamed at and was then co-opted as being in favor of something after I'd been given no other alternative.

It's reminiscent of the Friends lawsuit, which he also reformatted to his own purposes in Studio 60, I think. And as Sorkin lays it out, it's a really good way to maintain the status quo.

Mostly I knew when she tweeted it would become about Sorkin's feelings about having this "revealed," because he is NOTORIOUSLY thin-skinned, and I find that boring and irrelevent. I have work that legally requires confidentiality, and I have work that requires an enormous amount of ego-stroking of writers and of…

He CAN do a lot of things, obviously. When he does them in public statements, I CAN criticize him for it.

Criticizing Aaron Sorkin's writing is not calling for pitchforks. In fact, calling Sorkin a shitty writer with terrible views about women is not calling for pitchforks. Funny how people criticizing the gasp! excesses of the internet are the ones leaping for hyperbole.

If Don wanted to make his decision based on his journalistic ethics, there was no need to even involve the woman—and since his ethics don't preclude lying to his boss, that's not relevant. Going to "hear her story" when he clearly had already decided what to do was condescending and invasive. And if his decision is…

I was just thinking, how fitting that Sorkin's defense is that of the internet troll—if I'm getting attention, I must be important!

Wait, discuss RAPE from a feminist perspective? That's crazy talk! Clearly the rape was just a metaphor we are too shallow and emotional to understand, and that it happens to real women who aren't soothed by Daddy Sorkin's platitudes is very inconvenient and unfortunate.

Based on the school scene and the reading, I'm pretty unimpressed with Noah as an English teacher and as a writer.