[tomkat]

Sorry, but y'all will just have to fight that particular skirmish of the 'culture' war without me.

[Olog-hai]

Isn’t crushing the immoral “culture” the alternative to “ignoring”, though?

[bmwcyle]

When I was young, fat girls like that were ignored all the time.

[Perdogg]

I think Brian William’s daughter, Allison, who plays Marnie is pretty. It is kind of weird, but for some reason it can hold my attention. I am not sure if it is supposed to be a parody of urban life.

[struggle]

If you’re going to have a show with nudity that I’ll watch fat and tattooed is not going to get me there.

[arthurus]

Fortunately, for me, this is all irrelevant. I opted out of the TV portion of culture back in ‘88. Haven’t had a box in the house since. It will be a snag on crossword puzzles when their names get into that corner of the literary world because I won’t know who hey are.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Gawd, how I long for the days where true ‘ladies’ were treasured. I’ve already told my boys if they bring home trash like that...the ‘girls’ will go out the back door where we feed the animals.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

The Fat Girl Show didn't even crack the Top 100 shows on cable last week. And I've never heard a real-life flesh and bone human being say two words about the show. The media talk it up and HBO renews it on faith, not ratings.

I think a vile, repulsive (and utterly moronic) show like Shameless, which draws double the audience of TFGS, is a much bigger deal.

[RginTN]

pass. I refuse to knowingly help an Obot. It has low ratings I think.

[Blue Ink]

“Girls” had 860,000 viewers for its second-season premiere.

That means, statistically speaking in a country of 300 million, almost nobody watches “Girls.”

So how can you even type the word “zeitgeist” in an article about the show and keep a straight face?

“Zeitgeist” does not mean “reflective of what annoying media types and their creepy sibling spouses, bloggers, are talking about.”

For comparative purposes, in its best years, “Seinfeld” averaged 20 million viewers. For its series finale, “Friends” pulled in 52 million. THAT is the zeitgeist — what lots of people are thinking about/talking about.

And if I were a Time/Warner/HBO stockholder, I’d be screaming my head off about continuing to produce a proven loser that will never, ever go into profit.

Breitbart was right about not ignoring things that were successful and really making an impact.

“Girls” is neither. The thing to do is ignore it. Like MOST OF AMERICA already is.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Where is the New Normal?

[Boogieman]

I think this type of junk is best responded to with mockery. Just wait until South Park skewers this show, it should be epic.

[GeronL]

and conservatives need to participate in the discussion

Why? Better not to watch and not to subscribe to that filth in the first place. Better to try and get kids out of public schools and teach them some moral standards.

Trying to discuss a particularly crappy TV show is dumb when they are all similar. Just throw out the TV, your family will be better off.

[riri]

Fat and gender confused now is some giant demographic we have to placate? Whatever. More evidence the end is near.

[Teacher317]

[Intolerant in NJ]

What can be puzzling is trying to figure out how Dunham actually feels about her characters...quite true - while the show is trashy and at times disgusting, it is also funny, with some of the fun at Dunham's expense - one almost gets the feeling that she herself is not sure of what she thinks about a lot of this, and is trying to work it out in drama therapy - and conservatives should not necessarily expect to be offended by what they see - there've been several, if not pro-conservative, at least conservative-tolerant bits in the few episodes I've seen - when she leaves her black Republican boyfriend, he as much as tells her that she's just like all the other white girls who come to the big city and think the thing to do is hook up with a black man; when her gay-guy roomate berates her for dating a Republican, she retorts that she can't see anything wrong with that, and unexpectedly, he has no stinging comeback but sits in silence; when her character complains about the economy and says it's probably the fault of the Republicans, her girlfriend snaps that it's the fault of both parties, and ads "you should read a newspaper sometime - any newspaper - and find out what's going on" - at least there's been enough inoffensive stuff to keep me viewing, and hoping that eventually Lena will resolve all this in her own mind and end up joining the NRA and listening to Rush Limbaugh.....

[tdscpa]

Lena Dunham?

Obama maternal relative?

[Prospero]

I read this article last week, and I understand the author's point completely. But he's dead wrong. First, when we cede the language we lose the argument, going out the gate. Basically he's saying, in the Culture War, such as it is, the Lost Girls of the Left, in this case, HBO controls the high ground of the battlefield, and in this case the Left gets to choose the ground.

Nonsense. All the Right has to do is stand for Truth, the existence of Truth, without any presumption of understanding truth exhaustively, in our personal and private lives, and that inevitably brings the battle to ourselves.

There's no way to have a meaningful discussion in a cesspool without getting the stink on us. Avoiding the cesspool, on the other hand, without consequence invites controversy in this culture the author seems to believe is in a majority.

It's the same "problem" Christian denominations often fail to solve by trying to sale the same hamburger on the other side of the street.

Why would anyone cross the road to check out your wares if you are engaged in offering the same hamburger they can get without crossing the street?