Lena Dunham Is Back on Her Bullshit

[Celerity]

The star just wrote a tweet so tone-deaf that the word “cringe” doesn’t do it justice. Why can’t she ever stop making it all about her?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/lena-dunham-is-back-on-her-bullshit-with-her-tweet-about-the-new-york-city-pride-parade



Lena Dunham is known for three things: her film and television creative output, particularly the breakout HBO series Girls; her wealthy white feminist gaffes overflowing with ignorant self-important nonsense; and her stream of apologies for said gaffes that set the scene for when she inevitably shows she’s learned absolutely nothing—as she did Sunday.

“When I go, I want my casket to be driven through the NYC pride parade with a plaque that reads ‘she wasn’t for everyone, but she *was* for us,’” Dunham tweeted, unironically. “Who can arrange?”

Link to tweet

Nary a month after lamenting in The Guardian that “these things” will “be attached to [her] forever”—meaning the stuff that’s led Dunham to plead forgiveness from marginalized folks so many times that there’s a Twitter account that generates apologies on her behalf—Dunham wrote a tweet so tone-deaf that the word “cringe” doesn’t do it justice. Despite claiming that being a source of constant controversy and well-earned thinkpiece criticism was never “a job [she] wanted” and is now “a job that [she has] respectfully resigned from,” it seems that Dunham is on her bullshit again.

For starters, it’s mind-boggling that Dunham, totally unprompted, took to social media to declare herself an LGBTQ icon. Folks do not become queer icons via an application process or self-coronation, but it definitely was a bold effort. It’s also pretty stunning to see a rich, straight white lady issue directives for how she should be properly honored at a parade that was not made for her and needn’t be remade in her image.

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[Mad_Machine76]

1. Wow

Weird flex of her

[marble falls]

2. The road to meme hell is paved with well meant but ham-handed, thoughtless intentions.

[delisen]

3. Lena is a NYT social inequality creation.

Another NYT celebration of their in-crowd.

[Sympthsical]

4. We gay men are known for venerating many women as icons

I have never - in the history of ever - heard anyone talk about Lena Dunham in this manner.

She's often been a figure more akin to a small child throwing food and shitting its diaper. You can't decide if you choose to be morbidly, incredulously entertained by the sheer horrific chaos of the disaster or just angry at the parents for allowing it to go on for as long as it has.

Feels like a mixture of both.

Hollywood promoted her for ages for some reason (white woman with mega-privilege) and just kept pushing her as some kind of literary genius (an incredibly self-absorbed white woman with mega-privilege has it really hard, you guys).

I feel like most of our culture asked Hollywood to please stop after awhile. Mainly when her book was a festival of molestation stories (WTF?!) and falsely accusing a guy of sexual assault to, I have no idea, fit in with the moment or something. Followed up by lovingly declaring another woman was lying about her rape (Hello, projection!).

But seriously, Hollywood. Can we just not with her finally?

[ProfessorGAC]

6. I Wondered About That

Thanks for providing a view I could not have.
So, she's just annoited herself an icon?

[Sympthsical]

9. She's if narcisstic cringe took anthropomorphic form

I have no idea how she believes she's a major LGBT object of adoration. I don't know anyone who can stand her.

[ProfessorGAC]

11. My Wife Loved Her HBO Series

I never watched it as my wife told me it would not be something I'd like. I trusted her awareness of my tastes.
But, other than that, I've never heard anything about her until this thread.

[Sympthsical]

13. It was a zeitgeist moment

But its estimation rapidly degraded and it's now considered not to have aged well. Reconsideration of it is mostly negative. Mainly that it centered on incredibly self-absorbed and privileged white women with problematic portrayals of people of color (when they were portrayed at all . . . in NYC).

I can't say I ever watched it, although it did give us Adam Driver (naked half the time for reasons I'm not complaining about).

I think Tina Fey's take down of it was inspired.

[ProfessorGAC]

14. That Was Funny!

You're right. An excellent send-up

[Xavier Breath]

15. I enjoyed it.

As a middle-aged man in the midwest I was not the intended audience perhaps, but I gave it a shot based on HBO's pedigree. It was overall a good show. Her character, more so that the others, was a whiner, and I lost count of the number of cringe-worthy choices she made throughout the series, but it was still a funny show. Additionally, she had a perspective not common in television and it was interesting to see the show and her character evolve over the years.

None of that excuses what the OP is discussing, though.

[Celerity]

7. Lena Dunham admits she lied to discredit actor Aurora Perrineau's rape accusation

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/lena-dunham-aurora-perrineau-apology-rape-murray-miller-hollywood-reporter-a8669846.html

Lena Dunham has admitted she lied about the extent of her knowledge of a rape accusation by actor Aurora Perrineau against Girls writer Murray Miller.

Perrineau came forward last year to allege that in 2012, when she was 17 years old, Miller – whose production credits include King of the Hill and American Dad – took her and some friends to his home, where she later woke up with him "having sexual intercourse with me."

"At no time did I consent to any sexual contact with Murray", she told The Wrap, after filing a police report about the alleged assault.

Miller denied the allegations. Dunham and her co-show runner Jenni Konner issued a statement on the same day that the accusation against Miller emerged, which attempted to discredit Perrineau.

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[Sympthsical]

10. A true feminist icon

And example to us all.

Mainly on how to be a trash person.

[Dorian Gray]

5. Let's just say

that I know a few people in Lena's orbit and this is par for the course. A lot of self=congratulatory, self-aggrandizing, centering themselves in other people's stories type behaviors.

[Kaleva]

8. I have no idea who she is

[a kennedy]

12. Have heard of her, but never gave it a thought as just another white woman who thinks they're really

important.