I'm not accusing her of being manipulative; I'm accusing the author of not doing her due diligence.

A home run? This article completely ignores multiple other examples of Dunham's disturbing behavior with her sister. Was it done on purpose or out of the author's total ignorance of the actual details of the story?

I think these are the relevant passages (they have a 6 year age difference):

Yes. Here are some links to document what I am talking about.

Here's the only issue I have. Dunham is getting quite the pass while others (Chris Brown) aren't. I'm not saying CB should get a pass. I address that in a separate Jez article. The narrative for him from him seems to be, "I was young, it happened, I'm still paying for it, Rihanna and I are good, when will the public…

AND, her sister Grace said, "Without getting into specifics," she said, "most of our fights have revolved around my feeling like Lena took her approach to her own personal life and made my personal life her property."

This is a great point. If the above account was written by a 7-year-old Lena Dunham a week after it happened, it would read as totally harmless. But it wasn't. It was written by a 20-something Lena Dunham with no acknowledgement that she is in dicey territory.

Pretty much. Funny how there is no mention of Lena dressing up her 5 year old sister as a Hells Angel sex toy as she posted on instragram or of 17 year old Lena masterbating herself while her sister slept nearby or of Lena grooming her sister by bribing her with candy or even of Lena outing her sister and removing her…

Why are we acting like this is only about her touching her 1 year old sister's vagina when she was 7 and not also about emotionally coercing her sister into sleeping in her bed and then masturbating while she sleeps? And about paying her sister in candy to give her long kisses on the lips? And about paying her sister…

I think my biggest issue with this whole fiasco is not the acts Lena describes, but that she so cavalierly mentions that she did what a sexual predator would do (as I realize you discuss in this article). I realize that this is her brand of humor and maybe I just don't get her humor, but it is an out-of-touch,…

I'm pretty sure she's being scolded for the right reasons: i.e. being an oversharing, solipsistic, privileged twit who thinks every damn thought that crosses her brain is a Precious Pearl That Needs to Be Expressed to the World.

Extended?

That's when a guy walks up with the missing forty dollars and tells the woman it was on the floor by their table. To which she says "bullshit" and storms out saying that I'm a fucking thief. Moral of the story is, don't give small children lots of cash.

I imagine that guy probably paid out of his own pocket to make the…

"Well, he screamed something explicit at me on the sidewalk and I was so touched and turned on that I doubled back to talk to him and now we're a couple" said no woman ever in the history of human beings.

THIS! I love when my boyfriend says I'm pretty. When strangers say it I assume they want to remove my skin and wear my face.

There's nothing more than a woman loves to hear than how pretty she is.

men don't know shit

Almost wrote a lengthy reply before reading your last sentence. I do think there are three areas where colleges can and should take extra measures to protect students.

idk i tend to think at least 97% of things are an all caps issue. that said, i kinda do. the idea that our bodies are for consumption is insidious, and allowing people to be physical with us in any way (male or female, btw, tho i think the issue is MUCH darker and more insidious with women) is something that needs to…

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