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Lena Dunham’s VILE New Film Features First ‘Abortion Baby Shower’
mrc NewsBusters ^ | August 6, 2022 | Christian Toto

Posted on 08/11/2022 9:21:01 AM PDT by Morgana

Lena Dunham swerves directly into the culture wars, whether she means to or not.

Critics X-rayed her HBO series, Girls, during its six-year run over every sexual taboo and revelation. She used a sexual metaphor to tell voters to pull the lever for President Barack Obama in 2012.

And her recent clothing line for larger women got hammered in the press for not being woke enough.

Dunham’s newest project, Sharp Stick, is heading in the same direction. Except this time it’s clear the film’s co-star and creator is cheering it on.

The film follows a 20-something woman named Sarah Jo (Kristine Froseth) exploring her sexuality for the first time. Critics describe the naive character as someone with a virtual check list of sexual adventures she’s eager to finish.

Dunham plays a real estate agent whose husband (Jon Bernthal) is one of Sarah Jo’s sexual conquests. The Girls co-creator is no stranger to sexually adventurous characters, but it’s a new wrinkle in Sharp Stick that may cause a stir.

Sarah Jo’s mother, played by screen veteran Jennifer Jason Leigh, throws her daughter an “abortion baby shower” at one point in the movie. It’s the next step up from the pro-choice movement’s “shout your abortion” battle cry.

Liberal film critic Roger Moore noted the moment will definitely get people’s attention, and that’s no accident.

Yeah, Ms. Millennial knows how to get attention and throw a little shock in with her branded version of sexual adventurism.

Dunham describes the creative process behind the abortion baby shower sequence to TheFilmStage.com:

That was one of those ideas where I was like: can she do that and we still believe that she’s doing it and believes that it’s the work of a loving mother? It was one of those things where, at each stage, I kept going “is this going to disappear?” And then it was like the idea had held just enough for me to be excited. Then, when I wrote the scene, it held just enough for me to be excited. When they acted the scene and brought things to it I couldn’t have even imagined. Then it suddenly became a building block of the movie.

The film is earning decidedly tepid reviews, at best. The A.V. Club called it one of the year’s worst films, while its Rotten Tomatoes score hovers around 47 percent after both its Sundance Film Festival debut earlier this year and July 29 release date in select cities.

The movie opens across America Aug. 5.

The film’s festival release came before the recent Roe v. Wade Supreme Court reversal. That shift could give Sharp Stick a boost in progressive hamlets across the nation.

Or, Sharp Stick could be Dunham’s latest commercial disappointment. Her HBO series Camping lasted but one season, as did “Generation.”


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: abortion; hbo; hbomax; ketanjibrownjackson; paulryan; plannedparenthood; prochoice; prolife; righttolife; roevswade; scotus; wisconsin
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To: fieldmarshaldj

No American would call himself “Field Marshal”.

But a Russian would because it’s patriotic to invoke Zhukov.

Or perhaps you’re a fan of the Nazi field marshals?

Who knows?

In any case I don’t take orders from foreigners.


41 posted on 08/12/2022 7:16:58 AM PDT by MercyFlush (☭☭☭ Soviet Russia must be destroyed. ☭☭☭)
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To: MercyFlush

You name yourself after a toilet and you’re judging others handles ? Whut ?

I’ll pray for you, you desperately need it.


42 posted on 08/12/2022 11:26:41 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

There is a toilet called “Mercy Flush”? Where can I get one? Lol.


43 posted on 08/12/2022 5:55:31 PM PDT by MercyFlush (☭☭☭ Soviet Russia must be destroyed. ☭☭☭)
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To: MercyFlush

Helpful hint on your tagline, Mr. Toilet: Communist Soviet Russia collapsed in 1991.

Do you also need to know who shot J.R. ?


44 posted on 08/12/2022 6:02:43 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union are two different things. The USSR may have died an ignominious death but Soviet Russia survives.

And in my opinion Soviet Russia must be destroyed.

Ruthenia delendam est.


45 posted on 08/12/2022 6:07:10 PM PDT by MercyFlush (☭☭☭ Soviet Russia must be destroyed. ☭☭☭)
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To: MercyFlush

Wrong, as usual, Mr. Toilet. That you call a Christian nation Communist/Soviet with a hammer & sickle shows how ignorant you are. America is more Communist than Russia is now. Sadly, that doesn’t seem to bother you in the slightest with your Ukrainian obsession.


46 posted on 08/12/2022 6:13:56 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Gee, you’re rather invested in defending the scum sucking Russians. It’s personal to you, isn’t it Comrade Field Marshal?


47 posted on 08/12/2022 6:30:19 PM PDT by MercyFlush (☭☭☭ Soviet Russia must be destroyed. ☭☭☭)
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To: MercyFlush

Russia does not suck scum, unlike the endless parade of globalist scum “leaders” like Zelensky that have destroyed Ukraine in its short 3-decade failed existence.

Personal to me ? I’m such a silly goose for not wanting World War 3 like you nutjobs pimping for the Soros/globalist/Sodomite agenda. What’s your excuse ? Do you get sexually aroused watching old Hiroshima footage ? You want to see more mushroom clouds ?

Get some help. Talk to Him. You need Him badly.


48 posted on 08/12/2022 6:40:52 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

What is it with you Putin supporters that every insult has to be of a homosexual and sexual nature? How many of you mutts have to get zotted by the administrators before you get the idea that this is a family friendly website and your degenerate imagery is not welcome here?


49 posted on 08/13/2022 9:40:22 AM PDT by MercyFlush (☭☭☭ Soviet Russia must be destroyed. ☭☭☭)
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To: MercyFlush
"What is it with you Putin supporters that every insult has to be of a homosexual and sexual nature?"

You support a sodomite degenerate and stand with all your creepy Zelensky/Sorosbots who have viciously attacked the normals on this website (see "kozak" and his sodomite fantasies projected on others) who don't want your war.

"How many of you mutts have to get zotted by the administrators before you get the idea that this is a family friendly website and your degenerate imagery is not welcome here?"

I've been here since 1998, registered on my account over 21 years. I've been through every troll war on this website ever since, fighting perverted lunatics like you who has barely been here 5 minutes. Supporting your sodomite agenda of Zelensky is not family-friendly or welcome here. Keep digging.

50 posted on 08/13/2022 3:29:49 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

You’re so funny. I note that every insult you Putin supporters throw out is of a homosexual and and sexual nature and what do you respond with?

“You support a sodomite degenerate”

“his sodomite fantasies”

“Supporting your sodomite agenda”

Given your clearly stated and repeated insistence on injecting homosexuality and specific homosexual behaviors into the discussion I can only conclude that you have some very deep issues.

I suggest that you seek therapy or counseling.

In the interim kindly refrain from posting more lurid and graphic homosexual imagery on this site. Regardless of how long either of has been here I’m sure we can both agree that this kind of thing has no place here.


51 posted on 08/13/2022 5:00:49 PM PDT by MercyFlush (☭☭☭ Soviet Russia must be destroyed. ☭☭☭)
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To: MercyFlush

Take your own advice, you-Zelensky Sodomite worshipping Sorosbot. You have zero moral standing here, troll. Zero. Get lost.


52 posted on 08/13/2022 5:08:16 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

You really like the gay stuff, don’t you? I’ll bet you can’t respond to this post without another reference to something gay.

But I’d be happy if you proved me wrong about that.


53 posted on 08/13/2022 5:21:04 PM PDT by MercyFlush (☭☭☭ Soviet Russia must be destroyed. ☭☭☭)
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To: MercyFlush

Go get some help from Him. You badly need it.


54 posted on 08/13/2022 5:31:11 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

“Go get some help from Him. You badly need it.”

I’m not the one who’s clearly obsessed by homosexuality.


55 posted on 08/13/2022 5:37:01 PM PDT by MercyFlush (☭☭☭ Soviet Russia must be destroyed. ☭☭☭)
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To: MercyFlush

I’m not the one who’s clearly obsessed by homosexuality.


56 posted on 08/13/2022 5:44:40 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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