I have friends who are great at putting forth bold new fashion. It's such a fine line between daring and gaudy. And everybody draws that line differently. I think her outfit is great. And, yeah, expecting a kid her age to be catwalk perfect is kind of gross.

No, you are missing the bit where you stop typing and reconsider your life choices.

You are just using the term incorrectly.

I got a pussy pedestal for my birthday once. Of course, I usually call it a "chair" but that's just me.

(That is not how one does say faux pas. Not if they want to use it correctly.)

What gives her the right to write a personal essay book and give interviews to support it! What does she think she is, a paid writer or something. JEEZ.

It's important to women to share these experiences. It took me nearly five years after I was raped before I could talk about it with others. Seeing some of the comments on this article, the negative judgement of the victim is still a problem.

Or instead of taking the most facile possible reading of that comment, you could maybe interpret it as saying that she started to like Dunham because she is talking about a traumatic, shameful event with dignity and restraint—and her discussion of her own trauma, shame, and process of overcoming shame could actually…

some of the responses here are disappointing.

Sadly, people here are reacting with disbelief because they cannot fathom showing support towards her in any way, even as a victim of sexual assault. It's super gross, I doubt it has anything to do with how the post was written (though I agree the language in the post could be better).

Funny, because in this instance she wouldn't be doing too terribly at it. Although this problem goes back across all the generations.

The hate that is dumped on her is so heavily tinged with misogyny AND jealousy, that I've never taken it seriously. Some of the criticism was fine (on the topic of racial issues, for example), but the majority of it was utter bogus.

Of course they will, they already are. Its truly appalling.

Can the Lena-Dunham-backlash backlash start now please?

I'm not sure why so many hate Lena Dunham, but I'm generally uninterested in her overall. Her show, her brand...just her. However, I would like to know more about this incident and her conclusions of rape as a result. Not because I want to judge her. Not because she HAS TO explain. But, like you said, this post is…

You're a dumbfuck.

So good to see more and more women braving breaking silence around sexual violence-dropping the shame, getting the support they need and role modelling healing. Awesome Lena.

My opinion of her just skyrocketed. Good for her for speaking out.

Nor do I. And I agree completely with everything that you just said.