C/D LENA DUNHAM (THE DEFINITIVE POLL)

Wasnt mlk's letter from a birmingham jail about this xxp

since I posted it earlier... that goth/fundie picture was the moment where I just lost it with her, especially when she gave a total non-apology after she was called out for it. In fact, the gist of her apology was pretty much, "sorry bad timing" (the tweet was posted around the same time as the Oak Creek shooting). Which... AGAIN, well done for not only equating all Muslim women who wear veils as "fundamentalists" but also confusing Sikhs with Muslims. UGH.

I was fine with Girls being all white characters, because I don't think minorities should be included just for the sake of it, and it seems kind of accurate anyway that they all just happened to be a bunch of white girls. But LD's attitude towards minorities outside of her work is just massively troubling.

I'm a big Hitchcock fan but etc etc

waiting for her to make spike lee's radar

maybe she'll get an unflattering cameo out of it like QT in Girl 6

ta-nehisi coates wrote something a while back about how he loves watching movies from the 30s and 40s but occasionally he starts wondering how many of the ppl he's watching were complete racists.

if i didn't bring up the veil tweet earlier i meant to

that and the non-apologies and the japan thing all go some way beyond even what i expect from self-entitled white people up their own privilege

is lena dunham the JOHN HUGHES of our generation??

― 乒乓, Monday, October 15, 2012 12:09 PM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark

Could explain the "haha Long Duk Dong jokes are so FUNNY" tone of that Japan essay of hers.

http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2012/10/iconoclasts-funny-people-judd-apatow-lena-dunham/

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/25/fashion/lena-dunham-takes-back-her-tweets.html?adxnnl=1&hpw=&adxnnlx=1351177534-tkadL6jCAaBgY7PQejt0xA

Lena Dunham @lenadunham: @bjnovak @mindykaling You guys go as killer Canadian couple Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka. I’ll be her sister they murdered. Scariest! Luv U

lol

Toronto Star calls Lena Durham fatter version of Tina Fey after bad joke about notorious Canadian serial killers bit.ly/RSPnJy

Certainly no sexism there!

she should rethink her use of social media--this and her "fundamentalist" dress up suggest one of these times her "cute" oversharing is going to hit a collective nerve and have legs

i dont know if the homolka thing has a particular terrible resonance in canada but i feel like shes reached this status online as a lightning rod so literally anything she does even vaguely controversial will be blogged abt. like i kinda doubt if she were anyone else anybody would have noticed or cared

Jeez, I'll take her over Sarah Silverman any day.

people in showbiz on social media make Stanley Kubrick look like more of a god every day.

Jeez, I'll take her over Sarah Silverman any day.
― pretty even gender split (Eazy), Thursday, October 25, 2012 1:03 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i feel like there has been some seismic generational shift between Silverman (Gen X/Y?) and Lena Dunham (ur-millenial). I'm no fan of Silverman, but she always seemed very knowing about what she was doing vis a vis "the boundaries of comedy" as Dunham said in her non-apology tweet to the fundamentalist thing. I don't get the sense that LD's social media faux pas are coming from the same place.

a universe where stanley kubrick was god would be fuckin' terrifying.

i can understand maybe where she's coming from. when i was a kid i dressed up as OJ Simpson for halloween, complete with machete duct-taped to a football, which was sadly a hit in my backwater town. i still fight the urge to wear something patently offensive each year. my take is, growing up in the 90s you're educated to be politically correct, and it's fun to thumb your nose at anything you're told you have to do when you're a kid. see also: tosh.0.

It's the 1995 irony vs. 2012 absurdity thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6G3nwhPuR4

My initial reaction to this is kind of "PLEASE STOP YOU ARE NOT HELPING"

someone convince me I'm wrong

thought it was pretty awesome tbh, not least for the hilarious spate of right-wing tweets it inspired.

i really can't imagine any wavering voter being pushed into the romney camp by this.

yeah that ad absolutely MELTED DOWN the right and since i doubt it'll be the hinge of the election i was v grateful for the entertainment

http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2012/10/26/lena-dunham-is-not-the-first-one-to-compare-voting-to-sex-just-ask-ronald-reagan

I saw Michael Zilkha introduce a screening of Blier's Going Places tonight, and he brought up the similarity between some of the sex scenes in the movie and those on "Girls", with the claim that the latter will feel like a mere time capsule 40 years on while the film will remain unencumbered by such baggage.

So, uh, yeah: DUNHAM IS EVERYWHERE.

weirdly i think that obama ad is the first time i've actually seen her, despite having heard -about- her for a while.

Representing the age group that likely literally learned what a blowjob was via the president...

she's maybe even too young for that?

that's true of me and she's a year older than me (but i don't pretend to know how lena dunham learned what a blowjob was)

2,600 new answers

"What is the number of comments on other Dunham ilx thread before the "Girls" premiere?"

http://gawker.com/5966563/here-is-lena-dunhams-37-million-book-proposal

Can't wait until she's irrelevant. I'm Morbsian in my contempt for her. Maybe I should start calling her Dun.

lena dumbham

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gawker's super-biographical disdain for her is p creepy imo

I associate it purely with John Cook, and yeah, it's not too becoming.

I watched Tiny Furniture yesterday

It was terrible

Dud

it kinda reminds me of ironic-bad-taste, when people are aware of the social gravity of making racist jokes or whatever but feel entitled to do it as if they're playing with the form, or meta-commentating on society or something. like ~the point~ is that the open disdain is meant to be amusing, in its unnuanced expression, but it's performing the exact same function as someone just way too personally trash-talking her, using the few tired criticisms of the show as a crutch, i think.

gawker/cook distinction probably otm

i hope so

made a spreadsheet of writers perceived disdain for LD, you're in the clear

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tiny furniture was p good I thought, Im disappointed ray didnt win

gawker's super-biographical disdain for her is p creepy imo

― what is google (schlump), Tuesday, December 11, 2012 11:12 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

buncha rich white wannabe-writer kids make fun of another rich white actual-writer kid, n o s d obv

just watched Tiny Furniture, felt like some kind of shitty 90s Eric Stoltz movie

lol

whatever that means

http://theaerogram.com/lena-dunham-went-to-india-and-felt-really-sorry-for-all-of-the-stray-dogs/

continuing lols @ lena's ongoing colonial tourism

That person is not a good reader or writer.