xpost I can't even touch that she returned her dog to the shelter because that was pretty high on why people don't like her (BARC was my neighborhood shelter).
― Yerac, Monday, 26 November 2018 21:20 (five years ago) link
I forgot about that
― Trϵϵship, Monday, 26 November 2018 21:21 (five years ago) link
How no one has made an Overnight-style doc about her yet, I have no idea.
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 26 November 2018 21:22 (five years ago) link
would it be that different from any work she's scripted/acted in?
― mh, Monday, 26 November 2018 21:27 (five years ago) link
most of that stuff is pretty good!
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 26 November 2018 21:30 (five years ago) link
I watched this movie on netflix this weekend that I am learning was called "Literally, Right Before Aaron" because on my netflix it was called "The Wedding Guest" or something.
The first question that popped into my head was "starring Justin Long?" - and yes, yes it is.
― louise ck (milo z), Monday, 26 November 2018 22:00 (five years ago) link
i would rather, and i cannot stress this enough, be stabbed to death pic.twitter.com/XnOKtGCPCh— i cant drive 2007 (@prophethusband) November 20, 2018
― louise ck (milo z), Monday, 26 November 2018 22:02 (five years ago) link
This was one of the dumbest things people got mad at her about iirc
“xpost I can't even touch that she returned her dog to the shelter because that was pretty high on why people don't like her (BARC was my neighborhood shelter). Yerac, Monday, November 26, 2018 1:20 PM (one hou”
― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Monday, 26 November 2018 22:22 (five years ago) link
the other line from the profile that really stood out:
She sent a screenshot of a motivational text conversation she’d had with her friend Lady Gaga, who is saved in her contacts as Lady Gaga, not as Stefani.
every time the word "friend" pops up after that, the whole concept is just kind of hanging there
I have plenty of ilxors in my phone under their screen names tbh
― Bing The Mighty Seat (sic), Monday, 26 November 2018 22:29 (five years ago) link
xpost some people really liking animals non-shocker.
― Yerac, Monday, 26 November 2018 22:35 (five years ago) link
humblebrag imo xp
― sign up for my waterless urinals webinar (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 26 November 2018 22:36 (five years ago) link
eh i mean like the first time you meet lady gaga at some oscar party or something you're probably gonna be like oh we should hang out and exchange numbers and put her in as lady gaga
i have really old friends as ALL CAPS THEIR FIRST NAME because I originally put them in on my old brick nokia
― The Poppy Bush AutoZone (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 26 November 2018 22:38 (five years ago) link
The very fact that this detail was pointed out in the profile as somehow significant or “telling” is symptomatic. America has a weird relationship to Lena Dunham. For some reason people decided they needed to hate her.
― Trϵϵship, Monday, 26 November 2018 22:46 (five years ago) link
People believed that she made up stories about the dog biting her because they hate her for other reasons.
― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Monday, 26 November 2018 22:46 (five years ago) link
Lena Dunham might have encouraged this but it’s still an uncomfortable dynamic—feels reactionary somehow
― Trϵϵship, Monday, 26 November 2018 22:47 (five years ago) link
xxp all compelling bits of information that might add up to something more once we establish some patterns
― mh, Monday, 26 November 2018 22:48 (five years ago) link
This is a person a lot of people decided to publicly call a “child molester” because she wrote about playing doctor as a kid.
She says eye-roll-y things for sure but It’s weird to me (and significantly worse) that people who should know better don’t feel bad about being another person who piles on in the mob.
― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Monday, 26 November 2018 22:50 (five years ago) link
meh if she was a fella of similar behaviours ye'd be baying for blood
― old yeller-at-clouds (darraghmac), Monday, 26 November 2018 22:53 (five years ago) link
Idk about mr poindexter but that isn’t the case with me, daz
― Trϵϵship, Monday, 26 November 2018 22:55 (five years ago) link
I tend to take a soft line on these kinds of “tone deaf” characters
― Trϵϵship, Monday, 26 November 2018 22:57 (five years ago) link
there are certain ILX posters who aggressively piled on her with the "child molestor" tag, which (for the record) I challenged at the time in no uncertain terms.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 26 November 2018 22:58 (five years ago) link
fwiw I think she is actually largely oblivious to her failings/shortcomings, she has a strangely myopic worldview that nonetheless occasionally produces good work. also a lot of garbage.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 26 November 2018 22:59 (five years ago) link
gabbneb isn't exactly wrong here but being a Dunham Defender is so pointedly on brand
― louise ck (milo z), Monday, 26 November 2018 23:00 (five years ago) link
fwiw I think she is actually largely oblivious to her failings/shortcomings
yeah it's not really a mystery
― Οὖτις, Monday, 26 November 2018 23:00 (five years ago) link
might have encouraged this but it’s still an uncomfortable dynamic
if you're saying that by continuing to engage with Dunham material we're all part of her ongoing project, then yes, I agree
― mh, Monday, 26 November 2018 23:01 (five years ago) link
I just had to re-review this particular dog issue but it wasn't the biting but that she was embellishing some kind of troubled past for the dog as the reason why she had to give it up. Plus people would side with BARC on this since they have been in the neighborhood forever.
― Yerac, Monday, 26 November 2018 23:02 (five years ago) link
It would likely really really suck to have two nyc artists for parents.
― Yerac, Monday, 26 November 2018 23:03 (five years ago) link
An incomplete list of things Dunham has been asked to apologize for: the nondiverse casting on Girls; casting Donald Glover as a black Republican boyfriend the season after she got in trouble for having an all-white cast; saying in an interview, “No one would be calling me a racist if they knew how badly I wanted to fuck Drake”; declaring herself “thin for, like, Detroit”; writing a New Yorker essay called “Dog or Jewish Boyfriend? A Quiz”; constantly being naked; tweeting a photo of herself wearing a scarf around her head like a hijab; accusing a Spanish magazine of airbrushing her photos (it did not); comparing Bill Cosby to the Holocaust; giving Horvath a brown baby at the end of Girls (and casting a baby that was Puerto Rican and Haitian, not half-Pakistani, as the script dictated); comparing the reading of negative Jezebel coverage to getting beaten in the face by an abusive husband; accusing NFL player Odell Beckham Jr. of not wanting to sleep with her; saying she disliked India because of the visible poverty; apologizing but never learning.
she rules
― flopson, Monday, 26 November 2018 23:04 (five years ago) link
The three standalone episodes that I really love (Hannah daydreaming about a bourgeois future, the creepy writer she interviews, Marnie and her junkie ex) make me pine for a Girls with no Judd Apatow involvement.
― louise ck (milo z), Monday, 26 November 2018 23:05 (five years ago) link
What’s a gabneb? Is it from the time a lot of you would have posts with cool lingo like “teh” and “captain save-a”
Is being a piece of shit Milo z.’s brand?
― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Monday, 26 November 2018 23:06 (five years ago) link
she's basically the real life version of one of the seinfeld sitcom characters
― mh, Monday, 26 November 2018 23:08 (five years ago) link
She’s definitely a little insufferable but also somewhat talented and charming. Obviously unsuited to be the “face of feminism” but she didn’t ask for that and it mostly seems like conservatives who want to tag her as that. As a face of millennial brooklynites.... idk it kind of fits.
― Trϵϵship, Monday, November 26, 2018 4:00 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I really don't think it's conservatives fault Lena Dunham became the "face" of anything, liberals have very much pushed that idea. She spoke at the DNC!
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 26 November 2018 23:10 (five years ago) link
that is a great list she does rule
― old yeller-at-clouds (darraghmac), Monday, 26 November 2018 23:16 (five years ago) link
Tbf she spoke in the afternoon w a bunch of celebrities like Elizabeth Banks etc it wasn’t exactly a prime time spotlight
― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Monday, 26 November 2018 23:17 (five years ago) link
Also she shouldn’t be that toxic a property. She said some stuff that wasn’t fully woke, then apologized, I am honestly not willing to cast the first stone here. The garish dresses she would wear during the campaign that said HILLARY all over were pretty funny though, given what a lightning rod of controversy she is.
― Trϵϵship, Monday, 26 November 2018 23:20 (five years ago) link
― louise ck (milo z), Monday, November 26, 2018 4:00 PM (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
pls stop confusing me by making me believe gabbneb is back. nerdstrom isn’t THAT bad ffs
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Monday, 26 November 2018 23:20 (five years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Monday, November 26, 2018 2:59 PM (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is everyone on earth yknow
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Monday, 26 November 2018 23:20 (five years ago) link
― old yeller-at-clouds (darraghmac), Monday, November 26, 2018 6:16 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
casting the wrong race of baby too perfect lol
― flopson, Monday, 26 November 2018 23:21 (five years ago) link
she couldn't even get her OWN character's ethnicity correct!
― Οὖτις, Monday, 26 November 2018 23:22 (five years ago) link
Thot every1 knew she did molest her kid sister wth
― F# A# (∞), Monday, 26 November 2018 23:23 (five years ago) link
wth wht?
― old yeller-at-clouds (darraghmac), Monday, 26 November 2018 23:24 (five years ago) link
wudk???
― F# A# (∞), Monday, 26 November 2018 23:25 (five years ago) link
endless articles about her and white woman feminism. I think a lot of groups, especially right now, don't want to be associated with her.
― Yerac, Monday, 26 November 2018 23:26 (five years ago) link
Apparently she shared the stage in a co-speech with Ugly Betty star America Ferrera. Who could forget
― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Monday, 26 November 2018 23:26 (five years ago) link
the "molested her sister" thing is for 4chan teens bud
girls was good. lena dunham is a too broadly drawn caricature of white liberal feminism
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Monday, 26 November 2018 23:27 (five years ago) link
from her book:
‘As she grew, I took to bribing her time and affection: one dollar in quarters if I could do her makeup like a “motorcycle chick.” Three pieces of candy if I could kiss her on the lips for five seconds. Whatever she wanted to watch on TV if she would just “relax on me.” Basically, anything a sexual predator might do to woo a small suburban girl, I was trying.’
i believe lena was either 14 or 16 at the time, her little sister is 6 years younger
― F# A# (∞), Monday, 26 November 2018 23:32 (five years ago) link
can we stop misgendering Grace Dunham while we're relitigating this
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Monday, 26 November 2018 23:33 (five years ago) link
this is so fucking stupid
― Οὖτις, Monday, 26 November 2018 23:34 (five years ago) link
I hate the 2010s
― Trϵϵship, Monday, 26 November 2018 23:41 (five years ago) link