Merry Christmas
This is not a jolly festive post, I wish it was, and I wish it wasn't my first post in a while. It is an opinion piece on the Sony Pictures email hack or rather the devastatingly objectionable response to it by men, big bloody, unimportant men, doing relatively unimportant things, and being colossally paid for it. Seth Rogen, Brad Pitt and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin went on the offensive the other day, claiming that these criminal acts are being compounded by media outlets who are 'doing exactly what these criminals want.' I'm not going to go into an argument of hypocrisy based on individuals who conduct their lives courting public attention and then balk when it bites them, as I do see a line between the private lives of all individuals and their more public, working lives. What I find objectionable is the way they have chosen to express their chagrin and the distasteful worldview it might reveal. I find that I can't agree with Brad Pitt or Aaron Sorkin and I