Lena Dunham is known for three things: her film and television creative output, especially her groundbreaking HBO series Girls; she’s rich of the white feminist overflowing with self-aggrandizing nonsense; and her line sorry for saying that sets the scene when she inevitably shows she’s learning absolutely nothing — as she did on Sunday.
“As I go, I want my coffin to be driven through NYC’s pride parade with a sign that says ‘she wasn’t for everyone, but she *was* for us’, ” Dunham tweeted, ironically. “Who can arrange?”
Nary a month after lamenting in Guardians that “these” will “be attached to [her] forever”—doing the things that led Dunham to ask forgiveness from the disadvantaged so many times that there was a The Twitter account apologized on her behalf—Dunham wrote a tweet in such a tone that the word “cringe” doesn’t fit justice. Despite claims that being a constant source of controversy and criticism of the idea of making a lot of money is never “a job [she] desire” and now “a job” [she has] respectfully resigns,” it looks like Dunham is doing his bullshit again.
For starters, it’s amazing that Dunham, completely uninhibited, took to social media to declare himself an LGBTQ icon. Those who don’t become quirky icons through the registration process or crown themselves, but it’s certainly a bold endeavor. It’s also quite impressive to see a wealthy, outspoken white woman issuing directives on how she should be properly honored at a parade that’s not meant for her and doesn’t need to be redone. she.
This is a year where at least 240 anti-LGBTQ bills have been submitted. Florida’s “Don’t say gay“Law became law and Imitation proposal is being written. Homophobic hate groups has collected unprecedented millions. An illegal conservative supermajority, the Supreme Court’s super partisan signaled ready to cancel marriage equality. Gender affirming health care being attacked. Books about gender, sexuality, patriarchy, anti-black racismand intersections including forbidden from schools and libraries. And an entire political party — along with its media and Defender is very online—Committed random violencearbitrarily labeled LGBTQ people”shopkeeper“And try to make the existence of non-trans, non-heterosexual people illegal.
At a time when LGBT people, especially blacks and other gays, who are marginalized, can feel like Pride is a celebration of justice. survive This rise of neo-fascism, can sit out here, Lena.
Sure, Dunham produces an important documentary about a clothing company that caters to transgender men, supported her non-couple siblings, memoir Cyrus Grace Dunhamin their journey, and received the 2014 Horizon Award for her LGBTQ policy advocacy.
(During her acceptance speech, Dunham she joked that it was “a big disappointment for me when I reached adulthood and realized that I was sexually attracted to men.” That went well in that New York City event space but probably got less applause from the LGBTQ kids in the closet because they know safety is found upright, but sure, queen yaaasssI guess.)
However, your basic LGBTQ claim to be hailed with a literally damn parade seems incredibly self-centered, which makes your support seem like serve yourself. (Especially because it comes from someone who has been accused in the past of belittling the freelance work of others, like when Tessa Thompson clearly felt the need to make a statement note that “Lena hasn’t been anywhere on our team for countless hours working the past two months” around the Time’s Up initiative). .
I won’t rephrase all of Dunham’s displays of crude and mythical white feminism, but this new tweet requires re-emphasizing at least some of them. The place to start is probably with Girls, which since its debut in 2012 has offered millions of thoughts on gender, race, class, and Dunham’s ignorance of each. At the end of the first season, after a seemingly endless stream of articles pointing out That Dunham“The show seemed to drop four white girls who were entitled to a Brooklyn being rubbed by any white person,” she told NPR’s. Clean air she avoided “symbolism in the selection process” and wrote a series of articles that were “super specific to my experience and I always wanted to avoid creating an experience that I couldn’t exactly say.” Basically, that means the writer’s room (sometimes just Dunham, but not always) is filled with white. And while the show couldn’t seem to find a suitable Black writer in its first season, it did find a spot for Lesley Arfin, a mentor by Vice’s Do’s and Don’ts-era Gavin McInnes. (Before she was hired on the show, Arfin once wrote that “” “Nigger” is a great word” because “the two gs side by side are like two literal Gs, narrowly enclosed, hard as nails, they are against the world”. Guessing hipster racism early is a prerequisite for the job.)
Less than a week after a mass shooting left six people dead at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, WisconsinDunham posted a picture of herself saying she would “there’s a real fundamentalist/goth attitude when I wake up from a nap. “We were all offline as soon as the big news was happening, so that’s understandable, but her mixture, fundamentalism, veil, and Islam (and goth throwing) into the mix) led the comedian Hari Kondabolu needs attention“This tweet by ‘Girls’ Lena Dunham makes it clear that SHE HAS NO FRIENDS MUSLIM BRINGING CAR.” Dunham could have apologized. for that messagebut she continued to be unreasonably bad in the race.
Like when she accused Odell Beckham Jr. don’t hit her at the 2016 Met Gala, a review filled with white women’s ideas about central European beauty standards and how Blacks should react to them. Dunham again sorrybut it’s only a matter of time until the next public bug.
It arrived in 2017, after The Wrap reported that actress Aurora Perrineau filed a police report alleging Girls Writer Murray Miller raped her five years ago, when she was 17. In response, Dunham and Girls co-host Jenni Konner issue a statement accused Perrineau of lying.
“While our first instinct is to listen to every woman’s story, our inside knowledge of Murray’s plight makes us confident that sadly this allegation is one of 3% of assaults are misreported annually,” the statement said.
In fact, Dunham helped turn a biracial black woman’s alleged violent sexual abuse against an elderly white man into a story about herself. (Perrineau will tell later The glamor that the story was only reported because she filed a police report. “It was never a thing like, ‘I’ll tell my story.’ I just want justice. “)
It’s amazing, Dunham has positioned herself as a vocalist opposed the idea that women fabricated sexual assault allegations, tweeting, “Women’s lies: what they ate for lunch. Things women mustn’t lie about: rape”. She wrote one New York Times op-ed about the pervasive sexual abuse of women by powerful men in Hollywood, says the problem lies with the men who refuse to speak up, not “the women who are afraid to tell their stories.” their own story.” After recounting her own story of sexual assault in her 2014 memoir, Dunham wrote about how “her character and credibility were at every turn” in a passage for BuzzFeed.
“I don’t want our daughters to be born into a world that reacts to sexual violence against women in this way,” Dunham wrote. “This reaction, from skepticism to condemnation to threats of violence, is something I face as a woman in a privileged position. So let’s imagine the trauma that low-income families, women of color, the transgender community, survivors with disabilities, financially assisted students, sex workers, prisoners individuals, foster children, people without my vision, access to medical and mental health care, or my financial and legal resources. “
But Dunham refused Perrineau this support just three years later. One day after publicly accusing her of lying, Dunham tweeted an apology, noting that she and Konner were “endowed with a powerful voice and by speaking out we put our thumbs on the scale and it was wrong.”
In December 2018, Dunham will write an open letter again challenging and acknowledging that she is, in fact, a liar and that she has never possessed “insider information.” previously cited. (Dunham later reported sorry Perrineau, who passed? Polygraph testFor a time, however, Perrineau was seen as an actress steeped in a scandal she didn’t create and that threatened to overshadow her career.
Dunham’s tweet may seem like no big deal to some, but here’s part of the pattern — 10 years since she first appeared in pop culture — that keeps repeating itself. . This is neither the time nor the place for Dunham to fill a void that is not hers to fill. If this latest blunder is followed by an apology, Dunham’s attempt at revision will almost certainly be quickly defeated by another statement that takes us right back to where we started. Perhaps Dunham has a hole that could only be filled with attention, if it were not bottomless. Maybe she couldn’t get over her own ego. Maybe she views negative attention as just as good as any form. In any case, it is still not our problem.
