Aaron Sorkin's 17-year-old daughter slams How I Met Your Mother: "I realized it romanticized sexual assault"

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In an open letter in Seventeen magazine, Roxy Sorkin writes that she was 13 when she realized HIMYM, one of her favorite shows, "romanticized sexual assault." “In almost every episode, the character Barney Stinson, who is supposed to be lovable, can be found at a bar, getting girls drunk, lying about his identity, and bringing them back to his place,” she writes. “Afterward, he brags about his exploits to his friends. If a girl is intoxicated and can’t give consent, that means we may have been yukking it up at, well, rape. And when 13-year-old boys (or 10-year-olds or 21-year-olds) see this, they think it’s OK — in fact, freakin’ hilarious! — to behave like Barney. And perhaps even worse, girls may think it’s OK too."