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Wednesday, November 19, 2014
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Lena Dunham: Not a pedophile!
There are so many reasons to hate Lena Dunham. She is a hipster-poser whose parents never pointed out that she wasn't special as they sent her to a liberal arts college. She's like the JD Salinger of girls who've had a boyfriend. She's the Woody Allen minus the life experience. She's not as stupid as a Kardashian-Jenner, but she's not as attractive as one. However, recently people have been claiming that Dunham is also a pedophile because of some questionable passages in her latest book concerning her own sexual exploration, which I will not name, because I don't want to promote her.
There are a serious of problems with their allegations. For starters, pre-sexual people cannot be sex offenders, since being an offender requires knowledge of the inappropriateness of their behavior and a desire to receive sexual gratification from their conduct with youths or unwilling partners. Dunham's critics are contorting reality in claiming that she is currently or was ever a part of such perversion. Dunham's actual perversion is reason enough to criticize her.
Woody Allen, Roman Polanski, Jerry Seinfeld, Wilmder Valderrama, Mila Kunis (probably), Karl Malone, Ted Nugent, Justin Timberlake, Steven Tyler, that Asian guy who's dating Lorde--all these people received sexual stimulation from people under the age of 18, and thus are better examples of pedophiles. Taylor Swift was 19 when she dated 17-year-old Taylor Lautner, but I'm not sure what encompassed dating the teenage Swift. Maybe a lot of handholding and unicorn drawing as she gathered material for her next album on everything you're doing wrong.
[There is a double-standard in May-December relationships that favor women. (South Park addressed this excellently. Nice.) This can be seen in cases where a teacher--almost always a woman--has a sexual relationship with a teen. And some of these teachers were hot. I mean, unusually hot. Lena Dunham is not hot. She does not look good naked. (Take. A. Clue.) However, this does not entail incest.]
In talking about her masturbating habits, she is relating how ludicrous her sleeping arrangement was at this time, and I'm wondering what her parents were thinking in forcing kids to share beds when there was presumably no financial need to. She was not testifying that she enjoyed touching herself near her sister--she was saying the exact opposite. She was using an analogy, not making a confession. It is an analogy that any man with a lick of common sense would never use, but Dunham is neither a man nor does she have a lick of common sense. Dunham is a needy runt (switch out a letter), and her behavior towards her sister was not molestation but a manifestation of that. What we should take of this is Lena Dunham lacks self-awareness.
Dunham does herself no favor by blaming rightwingers or men for taking her comments out of context. This was a ploy of rally their troops before the midterm. This is "slut shaming," as she would claim. I disagree. No, no one cares about what Lena Dunham thinks, politically, so there is no reason to attack her. You're Taylor Swift but you have a TV show and you're not pretty, Lena Dunham. You're also not Hillary Clinton, who witnessed real oppression of women in the real world, not Manhattan or Hollywood.
A normal woman would not have written about such things. Dunham is of the generation that believes that even the most humiliating things should be written about and thus recorded for posterity. These things are things that you're supposed to take to your grave--same as Michelle Phillips's acknowledgement that she once had a sexual relationship with her father. But Dunham has nothing else to write about.
There are a serious of problems with their allegations. For starters, pre-sexual people cannot be sex offenders, since being an offender requires knowledge of the inappropriateness of their behavior and a desire to receive sexual gratification from their conduct with youths or unwilling partners. Dunham's critics are contorting reality in claiming that she is currently or was ever a part of such perversion. Dunham's actual perversion is reason enough to criticize her.
Woody Allen, Roman Polanski, Jerry Seinfeld, Wilmder Valderrama, Mila Kunis (probably), Karl Malone, Ted Nugent, Justin Timberlake, Steven Tyler, that Asian guy who's dating Lorde--all these people received sexual stimulation from people under the age of 18, and thus are better examples of pedophiles. Taylor Swift was 19 when she dated 17-year-old Taylor Lautner, but I'm not sure what encompassed dating the teenage Swift. Maybe a lot of handholding and unicorn drawing as she gathered material for her next album on everything you're doing wrong.
[There is a double-standard in May-December relationships that favor women. (South Park addressed this excellently. Nice.) This can be seen in cases where a teacher--almost always a woman--has a sexual relationship with a teen. And some of these teachers were hot. I mean, unusually hot. Lena Dunham is not hot. She does not look good naked. (Take. A. Clue.) However, this does not entail incest.]
In talking about her masturbating habits, she is relating how ludicrous her sleeping arrangement was at this time, and I'm wondering what her parents were thinking in forcing kids to share beds when there was presumably no financial need to. She was not testifying that she enjoyed touching herself near her sister--she was saying the exact opposite. She was using an analogy, not making a confession. It is an analogy that any man with a lick of common sense would never use, but Dunham is neither a man nor does she have a lick of common sense. Dunham is a needy runt (switch out a letter), and her behavior towards her sister was not molestation but a manifestation of that. What we should take of this is Lena Dunham lacks self-awareness.
Dunham does herself no favor by blaming rightwingers or men for taking her comments out of context. This was a ploy of rally their troops before the midterm. This is "slut shaming," as she would claim. I disagree. No, no one cares about what Lena Dunham thinks, politically, so there is no reason to attack her. You're Taylor Swift but you have a TV show and you're not pretty, Lena Dunham. You're also not Hillary Clinton, who witnessed real oppression of women in the real world, not Manhattan or Hollywood.
A normal woman would not have written about such things. Dunham is of the generation that believes that even the most humiliating things should be written about and thus recorded for posterity. These things are things that you're supposed to take to your grave--same as Michelle Phillips's acknowledgement that she once had a sexual relationship with her father. But Dunham has nothing else to write about.
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