While "The Social Network" continues to top the box office, one of the many water cooler conversations around Sony's Facebook saga has to do with the pic's unflattering portrayal of women.

Rebecca Davis O'Brien of the Daily Beast questions the "sexed-up Asians" and "doting groupies" in a recent column, noting that while she's an admitted fan of the film, "I'm just not sure it's a movie that defines my generation. Maybe just half of it."

Well, Aaron Sorkin wants to set the record straight.

In a 657-word comment on writer/producer Ken Levine's blog, Sorkin writes "you have to understand that that was the very specific world I was writing about."

"I was writing about a very angry and deeply misogynistic group of people. These aren't the cuddly nerds we made movies about in the 80's. They're very angry that the cheerleader still wants to go out with the quarterback instead of the men (boys) who are running the universe right now," he writes.

"I wish I could go door to door and make this explanation/apology to any woman offended by the things you've pointed out but obviously that's unrealistic so I thought the least I could do was speak directly to you."

Click here to read Sorkin's response in full.

Playing more like a book promo than your average trailer (which, I suppose, makes sense if you enjoy puns), Sony's first teaser for "The Social Network" is exactly that.

As audio clips spiral over giant keywords like Genius, Billionaire and Traitor, the Facebook movie's first official teaser never actually shows any scenes from the film, instead focusing on dramatic interludes between stars Jesse Eisenberg and Justin Timberlake before culminating with an acervasted poster with the slogan "You Don't Get to 500 Million Friends Without Making a Few Enemies."

"The Social Network," directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin, tells the story of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's (Eisenberg) rise to Internet superstardom and is based on the novel, “The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal." Pic also stars Timberlake as Sean Parker, the Napster guru who (and Zuckerberg confidant) who later became founding president of Facebook. Andrew Garfield and Rashida Jones round out the cast.

"The Social Network" opens nationwide October 1, 2010.

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Actor Jesse Eisenberg plays Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in director David Fincher's 'The Social Network,' coming out this fall.

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