Oliver is easily the closest to what I’m talking about. It’s pretty funny that people are going on about late night hosts not changing people’s perspectives when that’s literally the entire function of his extraordinarily successful show.

The header still spells the director’s name as “Tai”.

I know it’s hard to tell from the photo, but this thing is 15 feet long.

It is also troubling that watching these shows makes mocking the objects of people’s scorn enough that everyone forgets to prosecute them. 

When have late night hosts ever really changed minds? I don’t recall Letterman ever shifting public sentiment on anything significant. Jay Leno mostly just joked about Clinton getting a blowjob for 10 years past its relevance.

“I think that I may be the voice of my generation. Or at least a voice. Of a generation” is the quote from Girls.

The line is clearly intended to read as funny and a joke on Hannah in the context.

Shitcanning a show on its premiere night is fucking cold blooded. They went through the trouble of filming the damn season, might as well air it right? 

I don’t understand the point of the original tweet. You want to compare them because you think they’re an example of colorism and the proof is in their career trajectories. But then you go back and say that people are acting like it’s a breakout role for Keke.

So you didn’t watch Spider Man? Are you living under a rock? I think you are the one that don’t understand that Keke Palmer (who I have no idea who she is) is black famous maybe in the US... for outside of the US (like my example before you assume my color as well) it’s VERY easy to miss wtf Keke Palmer is, meanwhile…

Wow. This assessment is almost as cluelessly self-regarding as Dunham herself! “got tossed from the site” HAHAHAHA... seriously? “huge brouhaha”

Maybe she thinks that, because she’s accomplished so much, she hasn’t been held back — she has conquered — so she doesn’t want to be held up as an example of victimhood. And that to compare her to another actress, saying that Palmer somehow doesn’t have as bright of a star, is insulting to both of them and their…

Yea I would agree that Spider-Man: Homecoming is Zendaya’s breakout mainstream role. Came out two years before Euphoria and Spider-Man movies are seen by a much bigger audience than that show is.

yeah also season 4 is up there with some of the best tv i’ve ever seen.

It’s hilarious how often people think Dunham was actually claiming to be “the voice of a generation” and not using that line to indicate how aimless and underserved her generation felt.

I remember the majority of online voices sharing that opinion, so I don’t think you were quite the iconclastic freethinker you think you were.

“I think that I may be the voice of my generation. Or at least a voice. Of a generation” is the quote from Girls.

I really hope we all got more going on in all of our lives than continuing a thread that probably won’t get much traction after this.

Fortunately for me, I have less going on in my life than the both of you put together! Which means I have no shame. 

Changing society for the better is about coalition-building and if we write off entire swathes of the global population, we’re no better than the fundamentalists we criticize. Also the public schools, hospitals, and child labor laws, the abolitionist, civil rights, anti-nuclear, and anti-war movements that are part of…