GIRLS talk (the Lena Dunham thread)

One of the new dumb-asses at what used to be the Onion did a pretty fucking awful misogynist bit o' funny about Girls. I'm not linking.

it's about ten inches up the thread

that turn of phrase made me lol

it is but one modest dildo away

I am pleased that I missed it in this thread. It's vile, and I will defend the Onion no more forever.

idk I thought the onion thing was pretty fucking funny

Also thought the same wrt the cumshot. I was like wait, is that real!?

cumshot technology has come so far

Yeah, what's unfunny and, dare I ask, misogynist about the Onion thing?

wasnt there some HBO or Showtime drama a few years ago that had an IRL handjob with IRL jizz and everyone was reporting on it

lol @ irl jizz

haha

I don't have HBO. Should I just do an irl gis?

here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tell_Me_You_Love_Me

google search 'irl jizz on hbo or showtime'

oh thanks my current search for girls c on t's wasn't bringing up anything germane to the discussion.

hahah

dadgum jizzbos

We didn't see the actual shot though, just a rear-view pre-shot and an aftermath.

aftermath good enough for me for right now, thx

"Previously on HBO Pornhub"

idk I thought the onion thing was pretty fucking funny

― go to party leather (ENBB), Thursday, March 14, 2013 2:56 PM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

feel like this possibly could have been defensible if omg lena denham's naked body wasn't already the one-line played out bio of the show/bate for emmy sketches, but since it's a weird & kinda disturbingly focused on topic this is just piling on. it really sucks to see the onion really suck.

lol that FP article was so stupid why did i read the whole thing through the tiny greyed-out gap between the bottom of the monitor and the "sign into fp with facebook" popup

"the onion should go back to what they do best, making fun of the handicapped and the poor, and leave lena dunham alone"

i'm not defending the article, i'm just saying that this is a funny place to draw your line w/r/t the publication that ran "Bottom 10 percent of last year's graduating class ready to take on Saddam"

and

http://www.theonion.com/articles/clinton-deploys-very-special-forces-to-iraq,645/

actually, I take that back 100%. where people draw their lines is their business.

sexism is bad iirc

"kinda disturbingly focused on topic"

SO disturbing that people joke about Dunham being naked all the time on the show when she's naked/semi-naked in like 90% of the episodes.

"look at us until you see us" iirc. if she were skinny no one would focus on it in the same way. doi.

sexism is bad iirc

― purp (roxymuzak), Thursday, March 14, 2013 3:10 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

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maybe the onion bit wades a little carelessly into already fraught waters, but otoh it seemed to me a pretty funny send up of the cult of personality around LD and the show.

you can't have it both ways though, and say 'this show will fall outside the norm because x y and z' and then be surprised that 'everyone is talking about x y and z.' i mean, of course they are! you made the choice to do those things, which are not typical things.

I just read it more about the ridiculousness of the show in general and how often she finds herself in situations that just sort of don't really happen irl or at least not to that extreme or with that kind of frequency. The body stuff is annoying and often sexist, sure, but I'm not so certain it wouldn't be commented on if she were thin. Obviously it wouldn't be done in the same way but you can't have someone be naked for a large percentage of a show, often in situations where you wouldn't necessarily see someone naked, and not expect it to be a topic of conversation to some extent.

wonder if it would be controversial for one of the conventionally beautiful characters like marnie to be shown taking a whizz in the middle of nowhere

probably not. ppl expect conventionally beautiful ppl to urinate wherever they want but our culture wants to push unattractive ppl back into the water closet.

oh, no ones surprised that ppl are talking about it. doesnt make it any less annoying. thing is, shes not doing anything that other people havent done, shes just doing them at a different weight than other people we usually see on tv.

shes mostly naked having sex or hanging around her bf's or love interest's house. once she took her top off in a club iirc? thats all totally normal ime

adam is also constantly nude or near nude. where is the onion article about how gross he insists on being all the time

Maybe if the show was called Boys and Adam was the writer/director/star?

can I just say that her getting the splinter in her butt made me lol

I thought the Onion thing was more, this show where the lead writer writes herself taking a piss in public while on the phone to her parents, let's make fun of how absurd some of this stuff is.

hands up if youve never done that before

*raises hand*

*raises hand*

if the show was called boys and the actor who played adam directed it, no one would comment on this stuff in a negative way except extreme squares. i guess i should just readjust my definition of squares to include ppl who write shit like that onion piece

are u seriously scandalized by someone peeing on the side of railroad tracks

i dont get the phone call mattering. its not like she skyped them and got her pissing urethra in the frame

I have totally talked to my parents on the phone while taking a leak by the side of a road. Also, robotripping once. Don't know if that figures into the Girls thing. Just thought I'd throw that out there.

I think that's usually not very good for the phone, or so I hear.

xpost

I see what you're getting at, and you def have a point; but successfully or not I think the onion piece was more making fun of the idea that LD pissing by railroad tracks is construed my some as "raw and brave and real" as the piece puts it. yes it's making fun of certain feminist celebrations of the show but I don't think this is really at odds with feminism or celebrating the show as feminist, ultimately. It's just the sort of funhouse mirror version of things that's valuable I think!

as if an overweight girl eating, going to the gyno, and shitting everywhere on national tv wouldnt be raw, brave or real. lol