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Ignore Lena Dunham's 'Girls' at Your Own Peril, Conservatives
Breitbart's Big Hollywood ^ | January 29, 2013 | Kurt Schlichter

Posted on 01/30/2013 6:35:57 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

There’s plenty about Girls to annoy conservatives, yet this often creepy, usually skeevy, critically-acclaimed HBO series is also a test for conservatives.

Will we finally heed Andrew Breitbart's warnings about the importance of taking pop culture seriously or just keep fiddling as the culture burns?

If conservatives are going to be in the popular culture – and act to change it – they can’t simply ignore shows like Girls that capture the zeitgeist, even if the zeitgeist makes their skin crawl. Season two is well under way, and conservatives need to participate in the discussion.

Girls is about four young, aimless college grads living in New York. Think of Sex and the City, except Sarah Jessica Parker has doubled her weight, dresses like a potato sack and fancies herself the voice of some undefined generation. There’s sex and nudity – just not hot Homeland sex and nudity. This is the first show in the history of cable television where male viewers actively root for the heroine to keep her clothes on.

Said heroine is played by Lena Dunham, who like most of the starring actresses is the daughter of somebody famous. David Mamet’s daughter is in it, as is NBC’s Brian William’s daughter. But this isn’t just some vanity project. They are all talented, and Dunham is very talented. She created the show and writes most of the episodes (and well – the dialogue is sharp and funny), but her fearless portrayal of an awful, awful young woman truly makes the show something special.

There are plenty of red flags for conservatives, off-screen and on. Off-screen is the fact that Dunham is an Ivy_League, wealthy, 26-year-old New Yorker who has all the pretentions and prejudices in real life that one would expect from an Ivy League, wealthy, 26-year-old New Yorker...

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TOPICS: Politics; Religion; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: conservatism; culture; hollywood; nofatchicks; television; tharsheblows; tv
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1 posted on 01/30/2013 6:36:04 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Sorry, but y'all will just have to fight that particular skirmish of the 'culture' war without me.


2 posted on 01/30/2013 6:40:23 PM PST by tomkat ( .. livin' up north, with a Texas state of mind)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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


3 posted on 01/30/2013 6:42:05 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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


4 posted on 01/30/2013 6:44:12 PM PST by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; GOPsterinMA; GSP.FAN; SilvieWaldorfMD; Impy; NFHale; fieldmarshaldj

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.


5 posted on 01/30/2013 6:45:30 PM PST by Perdogg (Mark Levin - It's called the Bill of Rights not Bill of Needs)
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To: tomkat

I tried watching the first episode to see what all the hubbub was about. I really tried. Couldn’t finish it. Scary to think that so many young minds are being corrupted by trash like this show.


6 posted on 01/30/2013 6:49:29 PM PST by Clock King
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To: Clock King
Scary to think that so many young minds are being corrupted by trash like this show.

It's even scarier that there are actually people like this and they vote.

There is a reason why Obama won the 18-29 vote by almost 27%.

7 posted on 01/30/2013 6:52:41 PM PST by LdSentinal
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To: Clock King

from what I read about it on Breitbart, it was supposed to have been the ‘anti-Sex-in-the-City’.


8 posted on 01/30/2013 6:54:03 PM PST by Perdogg (Mark Levin - It's called the Bill of Rights not Bill of Needs)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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


9 posted on 01/30/2013 6:54:42 PM PST by struggle (http://killthegovernment.wordpress.com/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


10 posted on 01/30/2013 6:55:15 PM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE www.fee.org/library/books/economics-in-one-lesson)
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To: struggle

Allison Williams got topless in one episode.


11 posted on 01/30/2013 6:56:23 PM PST by Perdogg (Mark Levin - It's called the Bill of Rights not Bill of Needs)
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To: Perdogg; 2ndDivisionVet; Impy; GOPsterinMA

Anytime I see some trendy schmuck use the phrase “cultural zeitgeist”, I have the urge to slap them. I have no interest in seeing that ugly, tattooed, Stalinist tub o’guts whore, nor the progeny of the execrable Brian “I’m proud to watch my daughter have sex on tv” Williams (to which he probably pleasures himself to, the sick f***). The faster we nuke this “cultural zeitgeist” from orbit (just to be sure), the better.


12 posted on 01/30/2013 6:57:37 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


13 posted on 01/30/2013 6:58:43 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
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.

14 posted on 01/30/2013 7:01:42 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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


15 posted on 01/30/2013 7:07:52 PM PST by RginTN
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To: tomkat
Sorry, but y'all will just have to fight that particular skirmish of the 'culture' war without me.

Me too.

I have never ever subscribed to the notion advanced by self-appointed arbiters of "tolerance."
I've never need to experience "deviancy," STDs or Meth face to be seen as "cool," "hip," or "tolerant."

But that's just me. We are all free to choose the social group we wish to identify with, but no one is free to decide for me what my choices must be.

16 posted on 01/30/2013 7:08:02 PM PST by publius911 (Look for the Union Label -- then buy something else)
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To: struggle

Fat, it depends. Tattooed, not so much.


17 posted on 01/30/2013 7:08:41 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“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.


18 posted on 01/30/2013 7:09:38 PM PST by Blue Ink
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Where is the New Normal?


19 posted on 01/30/2013 7:25:44 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

He’s not only a trendy schmuck, but an annoying, condescending, clueless one as well.

Articles like this one are why Breitbart’s site is headed for the dustbin.


20 posted on 01/30/2013 7:28:42 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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