*sees Lena Dunham trending on twitter*
:)
― flappy bird, Monday, 26 November 2018 18:46 (five years ago) link
man the laughs really do start to evaporate in season 3
altho Desi's "confused Clapton" face is a welcome insufferably ridiculous addition
― Οὖτις, Monday, 26 November 2018 18:53 (five years ago) link
https://www.thecut.com/2018/11/lena-dunham-comes-to-terms-with-herself.html
flappy's looking for this one, I think
meanwhile
this embodies so much of why I lost interest in this show. It's not nearly as plausible when they keep making the same mistakes for the 9th, 10th, 11th times
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, June 28, 2018 9:12 PM (four months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
apparently, per the article (among other evidence), this is exactly how lena dunham has lived her life and her family deals with it through begrudging acceptance
― mh, Monday, 26 November 2018 20:01 (five years ago) link
lol
― Οὖτις, Monday, 26 November 2018 20:19 (five years ago) link
negative reviews of Camping, the HBO show she co-wrote with her Girls partner, Jenni Konner,
I had no idea this was her show. also it was terrible, couldn't make it through the first episode
― Οὖτις, Monday, 26 November 2018 20:21 (five years ago) link
There's a lot going on in that profile.
― Yerac, Monday, 26 November 2018 20:33 (five years ago) link
it's one of the few profiles I've read where it's clear that the writer/interviewer found the entire endeavor tiring
not to mention: Race is a chronic blind spot for her because she didn’t grow up with a lot of diversity in her New York City private school, she explains.
those last two words doing so much work
― mh, Monday, 26 November 2018 20:38 (five years ago) link
i can't get through this
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Monday, 26 November 2018 20:43 (five years ago) link
what's the opposite of a thoughtful person
In general she's terrible, Tiny Furniture was fine, the start of Girls was good (got bored of it and her after 3 -4 seasons? and it had a hand in making greenpoint and williamsburg unliveable) but I appreciate her narcissism and prolificness that doesn't care whether people like or hate it. I am trying to think of another woman that produced so much work that young that is this terrible.
― Yerac, Monday, 26 November 2018 20:48 (five years ago) link
I support lena dunham. Being rich and eccentric isn’t the worst thing on earth.
― Trϵϵship, Monday, 26 November 2018 20:49 (five years ago) link
She’s definitely said regrettable things but she’s apologized, I think. I don’t get the hatred except for the fact that she’s an easy target.
― Trϵϵship, Monday, 26 November 2018 20:50 (five years ago) link
I do give her some credit for trying to get the Clinton campaign to distance itself from Weinstein. Not reading that profile though lol
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 26 November 2018 20:52 (five years ago) link
She's an easy target because she's insufferable and successful like how usually only men are that insufferable and successful. That's the part I admire. The annoying thing is when people use her as the face of: feminism, millennials, new yorkers, hipsters, brooklyn, etc.
― Yerac, Monday, 26 November 2018 20:56 (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, 26 November 2018 21:00 (five years ago) link
idk y'all every other quote in this profile feels like an embarrassing gaffe in itself
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Monday, 26 November 2018 21:04 (five years ago) link
like i deeply agree she's too easy of a target but she... keeps... doing... it
personally i also have no interest in women who are finally as shitty as men
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Monday, 26 November 2018 21:05 (five years ago) link
equity!
― Yerac, Monday, 26 November 2018 21:05 (five years ago) link
Also it seems weird to be super harsh on her when part of her deal is being very upfront about her flaws and limitations. So much of how people exist today has to do with seeming irreproachable and perfect—she is kind of refreshing because she’s so much the opposite of that.
― Trϵϵship, Monday, 26 November 2018 21:06 (five years ago) link
I don't think she can ever apologize away her public statement defending her friend that was accused of sexually assaulting an actress that was a minor at the time.
― Yerac, Monday, 26 November 2018 21:08 (five years ago) link
she's upfront about what she thinks are her flaws and limitations. the apologies are a result of her constantly running up against new (to her, i guess, old to the rest of us) limitations
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Monday, 26 November 2018 21:10 (five years ago) link
― Trϵϵship, Monday, November 26, 2018 2:49 PM (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is pretty much her tagline! it's her version of "people hate me because I'm beautiful"
― mh, Monday, 26 November 2018 21:10 (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
― mh, Monday, 26 November 2018 21:13 (five years ago) link
i mostly don't need to read interviews with "makers" whether i like their work or not
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 November 2018 21:13 (five years ago) link
JUSTICE 4 LAMBY
― evol j, Monday, 26 November 2018 21:15 (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. It feels so strange that they are still making these types of movies where the main character is highly unlikeable, neurotic, self absorbed and self sabotages everything. Is this a genre? (bringing it up because it's Dunham's genre).
― Yerac, Monday, 26 November 2018 21:16 (five years ago) link
Better that than more movies about the Avengers
― Trϵϵship, Monday, 26 November 2018 21:18 (five years ago) link
no
― old yeller-at-clouds (darraghmac), Monday, 26 November 2018 21:20 (five years ago) link
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
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