C/D LENA DUNHAM (THE DEFINITIVE POLL)

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

Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (666 of them)

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.

well the article isnt online so i cant comment to how accurately it represents the article, but given that japan travel piece she wrote im not willing to give her the benefit of a doubt just yet

It is now:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/03/25/130325fa_fact_dunham

i thought she went to india. that one's just about dogs.

i love this broad's show but that's a fucking horrible piece of writing.

i feel a weird sense of kinship with her, even though she can definitely put her foot in her mouth sometimes. she lives like a three minute walk from where i grew up (and where my parents still live) and went to high school in that neighborhood.

i know it's a three minute walk because i googlemapped it. lol.

‏@lenadunham 2h
I'm passionate about the idea of the first woman mayor. Plus @ChrisCQuinn is tough, results oriented & can handle a City as complex as NY

*fart*

she is interesting!

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

― Poli oppa lice style (some dude), Thursday, December 13, 2012 10:16 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

― turds (Hungry4Ass), Friday, December 14, 2012 1:21 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

whatever that means

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, December 14, 2012 12:45 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

do you just mean like kicking and screaming?

jesus christ i had to look up that film title not b/c of confusion with the mid-00s will ferrell soccer comedy but b/c of nicole holofcener's walking and talking

saw lena d. on some late-night show the other night & was struck at how much she was performing "lena dunham." that said, i think "lena dunham" is an interesting figure in 2014-era pop culture!

do you just mean like kicking and screaming?

Probably more like Bodies Rest & Motion