Ignore Lena Dunham's 'Girls' at Your Own Peril, Conservatives

Breitbart's Big Hollywood ^ | January 29, 2013 | Kurt Schlichter

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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...

[Darnright]

>Boomers have never been the libs youngsters love to bash them for. <

Agree. The Nixon/McGovern race was the 1st election in which I cast a vote. I remember a lot of people talking about ending the war, but my vote for Nixon was in large part an, “Oh HELL NO!” vote against McGovern. My parents followed suit and I grew up in a solidly conservative democrat household.

[GeronL]

It is still a pornographic, leftwing show

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Lena Dunham?

Obama maternal relative?

[Impy]

Who’s running it now?

[Impy]

Tell us how you really feel. ;)

This Lena Dunham is extremely self important for someone I only first heard of a few weeks ago. Should should really put a cork in it.

Brian Williams, that’s pretty creepy.

[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?