Facebook exposé "Accidental Billionaires" shows Slicon Valley sexism.

According to Ben Mezrich's juicy new expose about the birth of Facebook, The Accidental Billionaires, founder Mark Zuckerberg wasn't lusting after cash, fame, or resume-filler when he came up with the idea for the social networking site. Rather, he was just lusting. According to Mezrich, Zuckerberg needed something to soothe his rage after a girl rejected him.

No, really. On page 42, Mezrich depicts Zuckerberg returning from a blind date, blowing into his dorm room in a fury, and declaring on his blog, “***** is a bitch. I need something to take my mind off her.”

By page 45, he’s working on the program.

Facebook began in 2003 with two Harvard students: the now-famous programmer Zuckerberg, 25, and his classmate Eduardo Saverin, 26, who bankrolled the original operation and is no longer affiliated with the company. Both, according to the book, were self-proclaimed nerds who couldn’t get a date to save their life. The connection between not getting any and inventing Facebook would seem preposterous, if Mezrich weren’t so consistent in portraying Facebook’s founders as sexually frustrated. He measures each step of Facebook’s success in sexual currency. When the site goes viral at Harvard, Saverin and Zuckerberg take two girls into a bar bathroom and have sex in adjoining stalls, and when it picks up buzz on the venture capital circuit, Zuckerberg goes home with a Victoria’s Secret model. Even more damning: When Facebook is still in its early stages, Zuckerberg fantasizes about displaying girls’ photos next to shots of farm animals and having people choose the more attractive image.

That passage, in isolation, is a bit of a jaw-dropper. And yet it shocks without surprising, because Zuckerberg’s pig-versus-girl brainstorm fits as naturally in the current real-life Silicon Valley climate as it does in the book. The Valley is now ruled by the egalitarian technologies of sharing and social networking, but the cultural vibe is anything but progressive. And prehistoric woman-bashing is making a comeback.

The guys of this Valley generation—moguls, journalists and consumers alike—seem pretty comfortable not only harboring sexist views, but voicing them loudly and bluntly. Think of the puddle of media drool that collected when Google brought on VP of search Marissa Mayer: Outlets like BusinessWeek, Fast Company, and Fox were chronically unable to quote her without mentioning her blond hair. Slimier traces of sexism rose from last September's Details spread on "The Playboys of Tech," in which wunderkinds like iminlikewithyou's Charles Forman eagerly expounded on "[website] founder fetishist" groupies. Ditto for the (now defunct) hotness-ranking site Dig a Silicon Valley Girl, where tech fanboys weighed in on the looks of ladies like Mayer and then-Pownce founder Leah Culver. In a separate, more malicious hit, Valleywag suggested that Culver slept her way to the top.

Tags: Digg, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, sexism, Silicon Valley

Megan Angelo is a contributing blogger at AOL's Walletpop and a former reporter at Conde Nast Portfolio.

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