I'm all for boycotting him. He joked that his recent weight loss was from bulimia, and said that it was awesome and he recommended it. :| So there's a pattern of him being misogynistic. I saw an interview with him on youtube where he joked that the only people who gave him bad reviews were bitchy women. Yeah, he's a winner.

Nobody off of this site agrees with me, though. I had the definition of humour read out to me, somebody told me I'd have more friends and be more fun to be around if I could take a joke, I was told that I was immature and needed to toughen up, etc. Ridiculous.

Wow.

The description in that article is horrifying (and not even funny...not even CLOSE to funny).

Admittedly, I do like Seth Rogen movies...there are parts that I don't love, but overall it's a guilty pleasure. However, this is disgusting. If that is really how it plays out in the film, I will absolutely boycott it.

Thanks for helping to legitimize the crisis we face with date rape, Mr. Hill.

I don't think this is an entirely fair characterization of the scene or the movie (which I have seen).

The movie itself can be seen as a parody of various genres (including romantic comedies)--the audience is at once asked superficially to sympathize with Seth Rogan's character and on a deeper level to see him and his actions (and pretty much all of the film's events) as ridiculous and occurring in a ridiculous alternate reality (in which, for instance, it is reasonable for Rogan's character, a mall cop, to shoot the flasher who has been harassing mall employees and customers, and then to take him to the police station (rather than to call an ambulance) in order to prove his own heroism).

In the scene being discussed, while the woman (with whom Rogan's character believes himself to be in love) has been drinking before they have sex, it is not his character's intention to rape her--rather, he is someone who has a difficult time of seeing things as they are, but when he observes her condition and expresses genuine concern, she drunkenly says, "Did I tell you to stop, motherfucker?"

I won't say that there aren't problems with the portrayal of women (or men, for that matter) in this film, and I also wouldn't vehemently argue if someone who had seen the film still finds this scene particularly problematic. But I think the NYT review is overly facile (in general and on this issue in particular); in writing this, I can see that even my description of the scene can only be ineffectual without a fuller discussion of the context.

However, I will say that the intended humor is not in the potential date rape itself, as several reviews seem to suggest, but in the (female) character's outrageous behavior (both in the scene and elsewhere). That her behavior and character themselves conform to sexist stereotypes is, I believe, intentional on the part of the filmmakers, as is Rogan's character's supposed triumph at the the end of the film (when he misguidedly believes he has achieved the masculine heroism he has misguidedly striven for over the entire film).

I can't actually believe that I am at all defending an attempt to derive humor from date rape; I also don't think the film is appropriate for younger viewers (and this coming from someone who thinks the concept of the MPAA ratings is absurd) in that they would be unlikely to see the film for what it is. But I think that the sexism in this film (including the date rape scene), being as it is ridiculed, along with every other major film trope represented, within the film, is much less pungent than that in less controversial comedies such as "The Wedding Crashers" or "27 Dresses," to name a few.