Did Lena Dunham have her body "dissected"? When I read that in the headline I thought it was a reference to her health problems (notably, endometriosis). But no: "When Girls was on television, discourse about Dunham’s appearance was rabid. Howard Stern called her 'a little fat girl' on national radio. One newspaper described her as a 'pathological exhibitionist.' 'Having my body dissected was a reason that I chose in general to step back from acting a little bit more and focus on my writing and my directing, and also just make different kinds of choices as an actor,' she says now."
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"I was in my twenties then, and I’d grown up with a certain expectation, watching films, of what my sexual life was going to be like, and then it wasn’t that."
"The world had begun to be so saturated by sexual imagery in porn and the expectations were shifting. Not that there’s anything wrong with porn, but it does change the way people are expecting you to behave in a natural sexual situation. And so I was just confounded, and I think Girls expressed a lot of that confusion, anxiety, and frankly, pain."
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"Long-awaited"? Really?
She didn’t do herself any favors by adding the tats to her body.
For some reason Dunham was crowned the voice of a demographic…important for some strange reason. Perhpas right place, right time to fill the Hillary void and nothing more. The voice of female mental illness, indirect spokeswoman for the limitations of Klonopin. I have to part ways with the blog host over obsession with this mentally ill mid-wit.
Some people never quite get to that point where they finally discover that sex is great when it no longer has to be performative.
Lena Dunham has had at least 24 known tattoos:
"Staunch" on her wrist (covered-up)
Ferdinand the Bull on her upper arm
house on her upper back
writing on her butt
skater on her stomach
character, portrait on her lower back
jewelry on her sternum
cherub, doll, mermaid on her hip
rose on her thigh
cross on her wrist
"Love Me" Heart on her bicep
diamond on her finger
symbol on her forearm
writing on her elbow
"Staunch" on her thigh
writing on her finger
dollar sign, symbol on her finger
teardrop on her finger
"Too beautiful to live, Too wild to die" on her bicep
writing on her thigh
pill, rosary on her ankle
cat on her shoulder blade
dog on her side
writing on her side
Great News on the Dacia Sandero...
" Not that there’s anything wrong with porn.."
sure! i here that, a LOT.. usually from porn actresses..
let's think about things, you SELDOM hear:
Not that there’s anything wrong with alcohol..
Not that there’s anything wrong with drugs..
Not that there’s anything wrong with psychosis..
Not that there’s anything wrong...
MOST people, admit that there are things wrong with things..
EXCEPT:
porn (Not that there’s anything wrong with porn)
it's weird that people would say that.. WHY would people say that?
Christopher B said...
"Long-awaited"? Really?
i think it's a typo. They meant to say: Long weighted
you know? because of her plus size body positivity
Not that there’s anything wrong with that
Stern is a mystery to me, too. The most piggish of pigs yet no full court press from the cancel culture materialized, no deep fake rape accusations from the pool of pr firm selectees. Some mild pushback is all, and now still worthy of a hall pass and a brief mention…
Didn't she withdraw from the public after admitting to have sexually assaulted her little sister?
I have to part ways with the blog host over obsession with this mentally ill mid-wit.
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Althouse was an American raised on low culture. nttawwt
but... she tries to punch above her station and impose her opinions from above. Except, she's not. Rubbed shoulders sure, but her intellect and her personal choices are all low culture, the drives out to Spring Green for the Shakespeare play aside... Not much intellectual curiosity or a questioning spirit. Not a reader, a traveller, no real developed lifetime hobbies. (sketching, listening to books, running?) nttawwt
She likes to surround herself with lesser minds, because that plus being the sole female empowers her, even in old age. But it's all artificial. There's nothing there. Low culture raised and a lifetime in the shelter... she's really not as smart as she thinks, and the analysis is always off. Again, you spend a lifetime sheltered in Madison, don't much read or leave your liberal haven... you kinda miss the story of what is happening out here. Ann is now in 2019 identifying as MAGA, but MAGA has changed...
Be careful what you wish for. Your eyesight is poor and you likely do not see what the consequences to our country will be... (not a threat, and observation. NO VIOLENCE. But you can't militarize up the country, put guns and authority in the hands of the undereducated who bleat WIN-NING, WIN-NING confident in their weapons and ability to usurp the legal rights of others...
You should have stuck with the artworld. You could have moved up in those magazines if you tried reporting and writing, instead of reading girly papers and cutting out stories. Did you even try to advance yourself, or was it all about getting to be a Mrs. Cohen back in the day?
Dave Begley said...
Lena Dunham has had at least 24 known tattoos
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Dave is kinda the masc version of ann.
Absolutely fascinated with low culture and sooo confident that they are above it all.
Why in the world would you take that much time studying Lena Dunham's body, Dave???
What little I know about the real Lena Dunham leads me to believe she's the sort of person who should have never gone into show business in the first place but she's rich and famous and working so that just goes to show you how wrong I can be.
tommyesq, I remember that too. It was a creepy revelation that she tried passing off as some sort of innocent exploration, and IIRC she did pretty much drop out of sight afterwards.
Dave Begley said...
She didn’t do herself any favors by adding the tats to her body.
Tats and maybe 100 more pounds of excess bodyweight.
An actor's body is their instrument--If she'd taken proper care of it, she could have been reasonable attractive.
I thought Girls was a good show—and much more right-wing than most people (possibly including Dunham) realized, but the body-shaming she suffered was mostly her own fault.
She consistently gave her character much better looking boyfriends than she would have gotten in real life and took her clothes off more than any of the other generally more attractive actors.
Setting aside my vaguely negative feelings about Dunham (I never saw Girls but couldn't avoid hearing her speak on this and that over her years in the spotlight), I can agree that "I’d grown up with a certain expectation, watching films, of what my sexual life was going to be like, and then it wasn’t that.
The world had begun to be so saturated by sexual imagery in porn and the expectations were shifting."
I doubt that I mean exactly the same thing she does, but I do share that experience.
My parents, total normies but to some extent prisoners of their time, never told me one thing about sex. Instead, we - my siblings and I - would run across books placed on shelves accessible at different ages. The lowest shelf has How Babies Are Made, which included really cute cartoons of unborn puppies in the momma dog's uterus and, when it came to people, a cartoon of a man and woman apparently sleeping happily (you couldn't see the man's face, as he was face-down, but the woman was smiling, eyes closed; the sheet discreetly covered all details that very young children didn't need to know).
Next higher, we would eventually find The True Story of How Babies Are Made, which was also cartoon-illustrated but actually did show a cross-sectional view of the salient organs involved in penetrative sex.
Then came What's Happening To Me? , which addressed puberty and - while still mostly cartoons - included a page each of very realistic line drawings of normal pubertal development of girl to young woman and boy to young man. This book both induced and relieved stress in me at age ten or so.
The one that left me confused was - I've forgotten the title. I found it all the way on the top shelf of my closet at 13, and spent a moment wondering how it had gotten there before succumbing to its snake-like fascination. It was a large-format black-and-white photo essay kind of book, coffee-table style, following two very young children - about five or six years old -as they discovered their, and others', sexual selves. They were a boy and a girl but you could only tell by close examination, given the small visible differences at that age.
The older sister of one, a girl about my age at the time, had a boyfriend, and they "fooled around," in the younger child's parlance - petting. The other child had a much older brother who he once saw having sex with his girlfriend, an experience in which the reader shared.
Everyone in the book was entirely naked and the photographer got right in there for everything. It was my first experience of some kind of porn, done tasteful-70s style, and it led me to believe that I ought to be rolling around on the floor naked with the boy next door on whom I had an inexplicable crush, and that pretty soon I'd be having sex.
Thankfully this was not my experience, as I said.
The book eventually disappeared from my closet and, I suppose, appeared in my sister's, then my brother's, though we've never exchanged notes - which is a sign to me that we were looking at porn, because we used to talk about the other books readily.
Lena Dunham is a fat tub of goo.
I take no pleasure in sharing that fact.
Progressive women say “not that there’s anything wrong with porn” because that’s what they think their male counterparts want to hear. Progressive women aren’t progressive at all—they fall in line with the progressive male patriarchy.
Lena Dunham proves you don't have to be good looking or talented to be on TV - you just have to have connections.
Like the ugly fish wives on "The View", I assume her audience is almost entirely female over 40. There's nothing wrong with that. But I'm not in that demo, and have never cared about "her body" or whether its dissected or smushed into one big ball of flesh.
I wonder how many TV shows now, are targeted at men, especially young men. My impression is the advertisers are OK with reaching men through News and Sports and that's good enough. Women buy all the stuff, except maybe buzzsaws, cars and alcohol, so Men can be ignored.
BTW, its getting that way in books too. When I go to the Library once a week, I never see any man looking at the "new book Fiction". As for the non-fiction, the publishers are focusing more and more on women. Even the New books on War are about nurses or female spies.
My porn stash as a preteen and teenager consisted of a couple of Playboys and a Oui my father had hidden in the living room closet, a Playgirl that my mother had hidden at the bottom of a kitchen drawer, and copies of "The Happy Hooker" and a couple of Rosemary Rogers novels carelessly left on the living room endtables. I didn't discover hard-core porn until I was a sophomore in college by which point I was no longer a virgin. I am glad that I didn't have access to the online pornography available today when I was growing up since I am not sure I wouldn't have spent every non-school waking hour between the ages 12 and 18 jerking off to it.
There's an image I dont want in my mind: Sex and Lisa Dunham.
"...I chose in general to step back from acting a little bit more and focus on my writing and my directing..."
A self-absorbed, pathological narcissist with no particularly redeeming talents or features. In spite of her determined, relentless pursuit of exposure and notoriety, she still strikes me as a blank canvas.
There are countless women on liberal arts campuses who share her worldview and general appearance, likely enough to create a market for whatever she's offering. Have at it if it's your thing.
Jamie, that book was probably Show Me, which initially had a great critical reception until people started to realize it was child porn.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_Me!
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Lena Dunham is right where she wants to be; wallowing in self-induced misery while her fellow travelers stand around clucking their tongues and saying "Awwwww......!"
john mosby, that was it! Show Me. And it did. And it was.
I can't bear to listen... Did she pronounce it, "DIE-sected.?" She did, didn't she?
Acting is not for you if the idea of people commenting on your body/looks/opinions turns you off.
OMG what a sight. We would all prefer to blame someone else for our problems, but Lena Dunham is in a league of her own for that.
"Did Lena Dunham have her body "dissected"?"
Did Lena Dunham star in a slasher film?
Didn't Mystal just say the Dems should embrace porn as a way to lure young men into their big (dank, dangerous) tent?
Oh yeah. And if you're a good D (i.e. 100% behind every approved position) you support sex workers. After all they live a charmed, beautiful life.... right?
Unless she can find a guy who's into chubbies, Lena's love life will be somewhat limited. It's tough, but that's life. Guys, like girls, have unreasonable expectations. And the tats don't help--not many boys have erotic fantasies about the tattooed lady in the carnival side show.
Her again?
Most neurotypical people are relatively good at predicting how other people will respond in a variety of situations. It sounds like Lena Dunham was surprised by or did not anticipate/predict the large amount of talking-about-her-body that would occur if she starred in a show. If you're a woman, and you star in a show, your body will get dissected and talked about -- whether positively or negatively. It just will be. Not anticipating that made me wonder whether she is neurodivergent. I poked around online about that but didn't see anything one way or the other.
Nothing wrong with porn? Hmmm. There is a LOT of porn that is just nasty, brutal, and disgusting. Not all, though. You must separate the wheat from the chaff. If internet porn was available when I was a just-into-puberty teen, I would never have come out of my bedroom.
Neurorepellent, if there is such a thing, Leslie.
---- She has previously said that, when she met Felber, she was “dazzled by just how much baggage two people could bring to the table”.
Dunham's tattoos may have been an expression of her OCD, a ritual that she felt she had to go through to calm herself and make things "alright." "Girls" was a good show, IMO. Much of that had to do with Judd Apatow (who's work I usually don't like).
"We Kill for Love: The Lost World of the Erotic Thriller" is a documentary about the direct to video flicks that were popular in the age of VCRs and Blockbuster. Apparently, there were an awful lot of them. Were these movies porn? Perhaps not, but when one of the actresses appeared in an ad for Ted Cruz years later, the talk was all about the "porn star" in the political commercial. Just what is and what isn't porn is hard to say. "Soft core porn" in particular is very much in the eye of the beholder.
Stupid woman finds out that being a whore during your fertile years does not lead to long term happiness.
2nd wave feminism has created at least 2 generations of bitter angry lonely cat ladies who spread their legs for Chad and Tyrone for 15 years and then got old and found out life without a family and a career don't really lead to fulfillment.
This created the Karen problem we are now crushing.
News at 11.
RCOCEAN II said...
Lena Dunham proves you don't have to be good looking or talented to be on TV - you just have to have connections.
Like the ugly fish wives on "The View", I assume her audience is almost entirely female over 40. There's nothing wrong with that. But I'm not in that demo, and have never cared about "her body" or whether its dissected or smushed into one big ball of flesh.
2nd wave feminism was designed by and for elite predatory men.
They used women like Dunham to trick a generation of women into being whores and wages slaves.
Karen got a college degree, got a job in HR, swiped right on tinder for 15 years and lived the girl boss fantasy.
Now they are 40-60 and they are fat alone and unhappy. Or they married someone like Doug Emhoff or Bill Clinton and they are fat alone and unhappy.
As was said in Animal House by Dean Wormer, "Fat drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son." Also applies to Girls.
Marcus Bressler said...
"If internet porn was available when I was a just-into-puberty teen, I would never have come out of my bedroom."
DON'T DATE ROBOTS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of504LSTQqY
Why would anyone allow modern films to inform their expectations of what sex will be like?
"Long-awaited"? Really?
First thing I thought of, too.
those words she is using
I will never forgive her for knowing who her rapist was and not prosecuting him. What kind of feminist allows a predator to continue to prey? Showed she didn't believe in women worthy of protection.
I think I remember her. I don't recall dissecting her.
Louise B said...
I will never forgive her for knowing who her rapist was and not prosecuting him. What kind of feminist allows a predator to continue to prey? Showed she didn't believe in women worthy of protection.
She voted for Bill Clinton. A known rapist.
These women like rapists. They support rapists. It is the type of man that they respect and they empower.
Democrat men are violent and abusive. Democrat women are picked and groomed to support and enable that.
Dunham not reporting a rapist, if it really happened, is like not yelling fire in a theater going up in flames. What contempt for future victims. Like Anthony Bourdain, caught paying off his mistresses' underaged sex partner -- legally pedophelia. Neither should have re-emerged into public life until they made all possible recompense: Dunham needs to file a police report or retract her claims; Bourdain is unfortunately beyond consequences for that sordid act.
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