I'm going to repeat something my group-sex-with-celebrities-having grandmother used to say before she got senile and forgot what a self-professed slut she was: "Old people are always telling you that times have changed. Times never change. People just don't realize how much crazy stuff is going on around them until…

No, I'm not saying they're not amazing. I just think that a lot of people use Dunham and Girls as stand-ins for an entire cultural problem, and that it all just turns into Lena-hate. It's possible that I responded to the wrong comment in making that point, and that I didn't articulate it clearly enough.

Those other women aren't headlining shows on HBO. They're not just talking about a woman who has a show; they're talking about a woman who has her own show on HBO, with great reviews, creative control, and an auteur's approach, all while in her mid-twenties.

And the reality of most white people in her class bracket and above. AKA, most of the HBO viewership.

This show is around because the television model of independent production houses largely dried up during the period of media consolidation in the 1990s. This has allowed mainstream studios to create shows of higher quality, but with the downside of less diversity. The spread of cable also allowed media giants to move…

It's not just fair and the right thing to do, it's also brilliant strategy. You get to accomplish all the things that being creepy would achieve (forwardness, talkin' bout sex, taking initiative) without any of the downsides (bein' creepy, not getting laid, being a creepy date rapist). I've said it before and I'll say…

Or the takeaway could be that these issues are complicated, and that someone who has personal and professional respect for women can be in favor of policies that aren't necessarily good for them?

Pretend white Brooklyn isn't pretend. People perhaps don't realize how successful geographical segregation, social segregation, and self-segregation have been. I know a ton of white people who live in Bed-stuy, Bushwick, Jamaica, and Harlem, and if I ask them who the last black person they talked to was - excluding…

Har har har. Musical theatre people do that a lot too. Lovers of any music associated with a subculture (indie rock included) can be remarkably douchey about it.

Gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen. Oy, this guy.

Due to some post-bebop and post-fusion nonsense by cultural ambassadors, jazz got canonized and is now essentially "African-American highbrow". Saying you like jazz is how you communicate that you're sophisticated, but still cooler than the classical crowd.

Faking sudden nausea?

Yeah. Also, knowing the true bully can be very difficult. More than once my assumption about who was at fault turned out to be totally wrong in what at first appeared to be a one-sided dispute.

Middle schoolers don't bully in full sight. They bully through passed notes, through whispers, and in hallways, bathrooms, and locker rooms. Moreover, a lot of playful collegial teasing can secretly be bullying because of subtext that a teacher isn't aware of.

Spoken like a true rapist.

Who on earth changes the rhythm when they're on the bottom? Madness.

For real dawg "Yo, I came here to fight rape by having crazy consensual sex with some empowered ho's" is like paragraph one of my OKCupid profile. I know you're sick and all but laughing at all this delicious poon is wrong shit is SERIOUS y'all

DUDE YOU FINALLY DISCOVERED THE TRICK

"It ruins everything when a guy thinks that he's working some kind of magic by tossing a quick, hard thrust in the middle of slow, deep penetration, or changes the pace / rhythm in some other way."

Dude, it sounds like you're doing everything right EXCEPT that you're getting down on yourself.