Rogen, Apatow surprisingly unsympathetic to accusation that their movies caused IV killings.

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22. Honest question:

and I will preface this that (at this point) I don't Hornaday's point was terrible, it was terribly made.

Arthur Chu wrote an interesting piece about this entire scenario. It was titled: Your Princess Is in Another Castle: Misogyny, Entitlement, and Nerds he makes, imo an very eloquent case, One paragraph gave me a moment of pause:

We are not Lewis from Revenge of the Nerds, we are not Steve Urkel from Family Matters, we are not Preston Myers from Can’t Hardly Wait, we are not Seth Rogen in every movie Seth Rogen has ever been in, we are not fucking Mario racing to the castle to beat Bowser because we know there’s a princess in there waiting for us.

Has Seth Rogen called out Mr.Chu?

Hornaday was making a point, and I will admit that she could have made it better, but she ended her piece with this, and it is something that a lot of people are missing:

Every year, San Diego State University researcher Martha Lauzen releases a “Celluloid Ceiling” report in which she delivers distressing statistics regarding the state of women in Hollywood. This year, she found that women made up just 16 percent of directors, writers, producers, cinematographers and editors working on the top 250 movies of 2013; similarly, women accounted for just 15 percent of protagonists in those films.

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.

I had no objection to her article. I still believe that Rogen and Apatow are taking this far too personally. It is worth examining, it is worth noting.

But, Arthur Chu is a guy and a nerd, and Ann Hornaday is a women. Have either of these two men called Chu out? If not why not?

ETA link to Hornaday's article, which also has a rebuttal to the criticism. here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/in-a-final-videotaped-message-a-sad-reflection-of-the-sexist-stories-we-so-often-see-on-screen/2014/05/25/dec7e7ea-e40d-11e3-afc6-a1dd9407abcf_story.html