Uh, I haven't?

And they keep having Dexter KILL people, too!

Nifty!

I'm sorry, but I do get it at least insofar as I can get it, and I'm not suggesting anyone wait for a turn. I think turn-waiting is bullshit. My point was not for anyone to stop talking about Dunham exactly but more that continuing to jump on her in such a focused way this long after the initial impact without…

My favorite was where he had this amazing chocolate (I think) reproduction of some scene from LOTR done for Viggo who was appearing on the Daily Show and they presented it to him and played Stephen reciting the history of Strider from memory and it was so impressive — he is adorably enthusiastic and at one point Viggo…

Yes, I hear myself and I said nothing about her being above reproach or not being called on her bullshit, just that to keep going back and kicking her again heaps the sympathy on her and undermines the argument.

That's not what I said at all. Perhaps quit kicking after she's already down? Guess not.

I don't get the Colbert joke *at all.* He's famously one of the biggest Tolkien fans of all time. He isn't going to shamble on camera as his arch, satire character, for fuck's sake.

It makes you a self-centered hypocrite. Is that bad? :(

I think it's really easy to attack someone who has less institutional and social protections against being blamed for everything. I think it's easy to put one's own expectations on someone else (especially a woman who is supposed to serve others and not her own agenda) and then yell at them for not living up to those…

Well, I do know that, but as with any ongoing injustice, the criticism only makes a difference if it gains traction. There was traction on this but since she's only one of many examples and she ticks off other underrepresented boxes, it just seems like an attack on the weak antelope.

Because she's a girl and therefore supposed to be all things to all people whereas regular boy-run shows — well, they're boy shows. They don't know any better. I mean, you can't even TALK to them. *fond look at boy shows* *head shake* *hair-ruffling*

I'm sure there's some exaggeration, too, but she grew up in a council (subsidized) flat with a zillion siblings and no money, so hand-waving her into the middle class, let alone Lena Dunham's more rarefied level of the middle class (when they aren't even in the same generation) is silly. They aren't even from the same…

(Ignore him; He's an men's rights troll.)

Why yes, my good sir! If only things were as they once were in the Victorian age when a man could fuck his way all over the city, beat his wife for daring to question his fidelity, pass along syphilis to his wife without remorse, and then divorce her without cause and toss her on her ear, leaving her with no recourse…

Well, I think someone has a foot fetish.

Love the link, love your username. Awesome.

Except for his reply was about the exploiter and the OC's comment was about this girl's supposed teenage-male friends who treated her like her ex-boyfriend's property and wanted her to die painfully because she'd done this terrible thing "to" him.

Ooo, droppin' da truth bombs! You are too legit to be taken in by... celebratory fundraisers for worthy causes!

I was thinking that, too.