October 2013 Moms

Girls writer Lena Dunham - Possible Trigger

dovetail223dovetail223 member
edited November 2014 in October 2013 Moms
anyone watch this show? I read this article about her new book. She's apparently cancelled some of her book signings because of the criticism.

https://m.nationalreview.com/article/391348/pathetic-privilege-kevin-d-williamson/page/0/1

He's also accused her of child abuse based on this excerpt from her book:

“Do we all have uteruses?” I asked my mother when I was seven.

“Yes,” she told me. “We’re born with them, and with all our eggs, but they start out very small. And they aren’t ready to make babies until we’re older.” I look at my sister, now a slim, tough one-year-old, and at her tiny belly. I imagined her eggs inside her, like the sack of spider eggs in Charlotte’s Webb, and her uterus, the size of a thimble.

“Does her vagina look like mine?”

“I guess so,” my mother said. “Just smaller.”

One day, as I sat in our driveway in Long Island playing with blocks and buckets, my curiosity got the best of me. Grace was sitting up, babbling and smiling, and I leaned down between her legs and carefully spread open her vagina. She didn’t resist and when I saw what was inside I shrieked.

My mother came running. “Mama, Mama! Grace has something in there!”

My mother didn’t bother asking why I had opened Grace’s vagina. This was within the spectrum of things I did. She just on her knees and looked for herself. It quickly became apparent that Grace had stuffed six or seven pebbles in there. My mother removed them patiently while Grace cackled, thrilled that her prank had been a success.

Re: Girls writer Lena Dunham - Possible Trigger

  • I'm not sure I consider the story of her sister abuse. I do think calling out that guy for 'raping' her in college if he didn't actually rape her is pretty shitty. From the brief excerpt it sounds like she consented and when she withdrew consent he left.

    Interested to know everyone else's take.
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  • Parenting has a thread on ths too, although this specific article wasn't linked. You may want to add this to the thread and see what they think?
  • I know this is not the point but LOL at the Lena caricature.

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