[aphelion]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/201...toria.html

"We like to believe that attractive women exert sexual and economic "power" in our culture, but the systems set up to capitalize on their bodies—pageants, Playboy, porn, pop music—are rarely controlled by the women in front of the camera. Often, they are dominated by men. Sometimes, they're explicitly exploitative. Lena Dunham has said that she gets naked on screen in an attempt “to feel some kind of ownership of your own body, the way getting tattoos does.” "

Attractive women getting undressed for Victoria's Secret - exploitative
Unattractive woman getting undressed for her own TV show - empowering!

[Screwston]

This bitch

[Veloce]

Include the headline of the article for more hamster-ific effect:

Lena Dunham Doesn't Want a Victoria's Secret Body. Hers Is More Powerful.

[liberman]

Thats some fine logic right there

[Echoes]

"Ownership of your own body." Whose body did she think it was?

Dumb bitch.

[NY Digital]

stop bringing this cunts name up here... she's practically a celebrity in these parts...

[guerrilla]

that's not Lenas fault that feminists are using her as a posterchild.

she's an actress. she's the first to admit she's not attractive and full of quirks and weirdness. the show Girls does NOT paint her in a flattering light at all, she needs meds because of OCD, she fucks a junky cause she's outta her mind, she can't have a stable friendship or relationship with male or female.

it's the media that all of a sudden is making her a poster child of the "new woman." But the show Girls itself, and hell, Lena as an actress, they're neither moral or immoral, that's just art. its the viewers and the critics/media who makes it into something that they neither are or are not.

[Screwston]

I think guerrilla has a crush on her.

[Ovid]

Her hamster's gotta have at least a V10... Mind blowingly obnoxious and stupid broad.

[aphelion]

I was about to make a comment about how the show not portraying her in a feminine light is part and parcel of an overall strategy by her to make her natural behaviors socially palatable, but I realized that I haven't actually watched the show. So, I really shouldn't comment since I only know what's been written about it.

[Starbuck]

Quote:

It must be a big burden in some ways to look that way and be in public.

[EisenBarde]

If you write her name three times in a row in one post, she'll show up on the 1st under the name "Beetlejuice"

[soup]

Guys, can we agree to stop making posts about Lena Dunham.

It really urks me to see her name pop up around here all the time.

[guerrilla]

(03-14-2013 06:08 PM)houston Wrote:  

I think guerrilla has a crush on her.

nah, Marni from the show tho!!!! LOL

[Hades]

If ugly was power, I must be some kind of demigod.

[dragnet]

i think guerilla is onto something...and i'm tired of seeing posts about her on the forum, too. if feminism is a giant society-wide shit test, then lena dunham is the latest manifestation of this---and we're failing it miserably.

[kbell]

You just have to have one thread on Lena. How you want to make babies with her and how her mouth vomit tastes like cheese.

[bojangles]

I hate seeing pics of this bitch, can we just fuck her off.

[soup]

Guys, please stop commeting on this thread.

Every time I see the name Lena Dunham, I don't feel good.

That Boglin's big dumb looking face is all over Williamsburg, and the show is shot in my neighborhood and is supposed to take place near my block.

It's the worst.

[reaper23]

i think everyone is missing the point.

all of those bitches on that show are despicable. they treat their friends like enemies, they are inane, they are irresponsible, they are neurotic, they are self centered.

and lena dunham writes them that way on purpose with no sense of irony.

it is actually an expose' on how shitty 20 something swpl american bitches are.

there is no glamorizing at all.

i think lena dunham is red pill and exceptionally self aware

i mean, dudes, she is the one who created these awful bitches and is just putting them on display

now, i can't speak to how the rest of these bitches in america are responding, but to say that lena dunham is trying to glamorize or make any positive spin out of the characters is un true.

I HATE THEM ALL

which means, she as a writer is doing a great job

[soup]

(03-15-2013 06:39 AM)reaper23 Wrote:  

i think everyone is missing the point.

all of those bitches on that show are despicable. they treat their friends like enemies, they are inane, they are irresponsible, they are neurotic, they are self centered.

and lena dunham writes them that way on purpose with no sense of irony.

it is actually an expose' on how shitty 20 something swpl american bitches are.

there is no glamorizing at all.

i think lena dunham is red pill and exceptionally self aware

i mean, dudes, she is the one who created these awful bitches and is just putting them on display

now, i can't speak to how the rest of these bitches in america are responding, but to say that lena dunham is trying to glamorize or make any positive spin out of the characters is un true.

I HATE THEM ALL

which means, she as a writer is doing a great job

Here's what I've noticed.

There are a lot of girls who watch this show religiously. In the same way that the older generation watched Sex and The City.

At the same time, I've spoken to a lot of girls who say they hate the show.

All that aside, I believe that putting Lena up there as a protagonist is not so implicitly telling women across the nation that they can be ugly and fat and still be famous with their own show on HBO.

This is very dangerous (and I'm not over-using the word dangerous here). The more people except fatness as a viable option, the more health problems our country has.

Not to mention the fact that it makes our lives as players more difficult because now we are going to have even more fatties to wade through.