Lena Dunham: Why I Chose To Speak Out

http://www.buzzfeed.com/lenadunham/lena-dunham-why-i-chose-to-speak-out ^

[boop]

"The important point is not whether I told the truth or slandered someone I chose at random, it is that I raised awareness of this important issue..."

As is the case EVERY SINGLE TIME a liar gets caught.

The lie doesn't matter. We raised "awareness".

No, Lena you POS.

You literally damaged a man's reputation beyond repair.

Saying "oopsie" does NOT make things right.

You must seriously pay for what you have done.

As in admit that wither we can believe absolutely NOTHING you have said, or the alternative, show that you are serious about atonement.

Put up EVERY cent of your advance and make it payable to Barry One.

Anything less is insulting to every woman who has TRULY been victimized.

[Boogieman]

Look how carefully scripted even the subtitle is:

“The ways I’ve been attacked for sharing my story show how far we have to go when discussing sexual assault.”

Right from the start, she is shifting the narrative from “I lied” to “I’ve been attacked”. Then, she uses the phrase “sharing my story”, which makes it sound ambiguous as to whether it is supposed to be fictional or not. It’s not the objective truth that matters here, it’s that she is “discussing sexual assault” that is important.

[Boogieman]

This paragraph contains a whopper:

"I have a certain empathy for the journalists who asked me questions like whether I regret how much I drank that night or what my attacker would say if he was asked about me. These ignorant lines of inquiry serve to further flawed narratives about rape, but these people are reacting to the same set of social signals that we all are — signals telling us that preventing assault is a woman’s job, that rape is only rape when a stranger drags you into a dark alley with a knife at your throat, that our stories are never true, and that lying about rape is a way for women to enact revenge on innocent men. These misconceptions about rape are rampant, destructive and precisely the thing that prevents survivors from seeking the support that they need and deserve."

So, according to Dunham, women don't lie about rape to inflict harm on men? I wonder, does she think women simply don't lie about rape, or that they do, but only with the noblest motives?

[freeandfreezing]

Speaking out about the realities and complexities of sexual assault is how we begin to protect each other. I do not want our daughters born into a world that reacts to sexual violence against women in this way.

Speaking out was never about exposing the man who assaulted me. ... I did not wish to ... open a criminal investigation. I am in a loving and peaceful place in my life and I am not willing to sacrifice any more of it for this person I do not know..."

What bizarre logic. Ms. Dunham wants to "protect" others, and prevent "our daughters" from sexual violence, but she's having too much fun right now to want to bother to prosecute somebody she believes to be an actual rapist. If she doesn't want to spend any of her time prosecuting somebody she believes is a rapist, why should the rest of us care about him either? Or for that matter anyone like him? Why would we want to "sacrifice" a couple of weeks of our lives, for instance, to sit on a jury and listen to the evidence of an alleged rape?

Fortunately, unlike Ms. Dunham, most people care very much about preventing rape. That's why we believe in prosecuting and punishing rapists. Sometimes life isn't all about "love" and "peace" or even your own feelings. Sometimes you have to put your own feelings and good times aside and do the right thing, like cooperating with law enforcement to get a criminal off the streets. Apparently Ms. Dunham couldn't be bothered with that kind of responsibility to society.

Or she doesn't really believe a crime was committed.

[wtd]

She should be sued for every penny that her lying book earned for her..."-TxRefugee

• People: Lena Dunham's Publisher Offers to Pay Legal Fees for Former Student Falsely Accused of Rape

[UCANSEE2]

I’m confused. The girl in the book is a compendium of Dunham’s imaginary experiences with a guy Named Barry.

So... is she the girlfriend in Obama’s book that is a compendium of his imaginary experiences ?

[Third Person]

She’s all done.

[Boogieman]

What is important is that we don’t doubt the underlying truthiness of her narrative.

/s

[RinaseaofDs]

sorry means she did it. That means he’ll win in court.

[Boogieman]

I don’t even think that much of her story happened. The guy she named says he didn’t even know her, but obviously, being obsessed with evil Republicans, she knew enough about him to put some real facts about him into the story.

I think she created the whole scenario as a fantasy, just so she could claim the mantle of “rape survivor” and up her feminist street cred. I mean, who else would a good liberal cast as the villain in a fictional rape account? She couldn’t use a minority, or a fellow liberal, so the options are limited to the sanctioned villain groups of white frat boys and white Republicans (cops would be okay too I suppose).

[woofie]

Hey she didn’t do anything Professor Gruber did not do

[FamiliarFace]

Good post!

There was no crime committed. She agreed to and participated in a sex action. Being high or drunk doesn’t absolve you of your decisions unless you are incapacitated by those drugs, and it sounds like she wasn’t. That’s why she doesn’t really believe that a crime was committed. She consented. She may have been impaired, but not to the extent that she didn’t know what was going on.

From what I have read of her encounter with Barry, she consented to sex, but regretted it later. That doesn’t make it a sexual assault, it makes it a poor decision. Poor decisions have consequences, and all of us make them from time to time. We wish we had made a different choice, but we didn’t, so we have to live with the consequences.

There was no crime.

I hope that Lena Dunham has to pay Barry One enough money to clear his name. If she was as pro helping true rape victims as she says, then she should be happy to settle with Barry, because after his legal fees are paid, the rest of the money is getting donated to a non-profit to help those true rape victims.

[Deagle]

Crazy Feminist and a bit deranged I’d say... She will eventually be outed as an odd and perhaps emotionally damaged person - mental problems at the least.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

Like George Costanza said, “It isn’t a lie if you believe it. “

[aquila48]

Didn’t she molest her little sister?

Also Google her pervert father’s art (Carroll Dunham) to see the sick trash she grew up with.

[LT Brass Bancroft]

being attracted to lefty girls like Lena Dunham

There's not enough alcohol in the world, let alone at an Oberlin College party.

[anton]

I am guessing she was asked to a pig party. That is where you get a date with the ugliest, fattest girl you know. Then swaray with your buddies to get drunk and compare pigs. It is a Greek thing to do and Lena could very well have been so offended she morphed it into a rape fantasy.

[reasonisfaith]

The only way to cover up lies is with more lies. Each new lie is more obvious than the previous.

[Oztrich Boy]

Give up Lena. Jackie is more photogenic than you.

[tanknetter]

this is panic mode for her. if it was true there’d be zero budging off her original story and she’d be attacking that much harder.

I think that as well. There are two things that need to continue to be pressed with her:

1, Which of the multiple descriptors of "Barry" were accurate? If any?

2, Why did she, and her publisher, refuse to address the question of whether "Barry" was Barry One when the matter first started gaining traction? Apparently Barry One, through his lawyer, was trying to get some sort of clarification/retraction for several weeks, while Dunham and her publisher let the matter fester (and, IIRC, Dunham played coy on the matter on Twitter).

I get the impression from the multi-week campaign of ignoring this, that there's something deeper going on here. Like maybe Dunham fighting off requests, then demands, from Random House to come clean. Or perhaps, more simplistically, trying to give the controversy enough time to generate additional book sales.