Threatened? Only if we're both going for the last cookie. But it looks as if Dunham has mastered the art of nabbing it.
The only reaction I've had all along to her is....why?
Why does the 'entertainment' press constantly attempt to convince me, you and everyone else that Lena Dunham is a) attractive, b) smart, c) witty/funny, d) not physically repellent and e) worthy of such saturation coverage?
Full disclosure: I keep asking what I'm missing. I see a dumpy female with an absolutely tragic figure for someone under 30, pale skin that frequently shows bruising especially on the legs, no shortage of subcutaneous fat (read: cellulite), a hideous what-is-it blob of a tattoo on one shoulder, short hair occasionally dyed bright green which appears to have been hacked at by a blind man with dull scissors and, inevitably, that mouthful of crooked teeth.
If such a person were standing at a bus stop they wouldn't get a second look, with or without green hair.
But as with the equine Sarah Jessica Parker, the press won't stop beating their tin pan about Dunham as a 'sex symbol' - which rather confuses those of us accustomed to awarding a Farrah Fawcett, Kathy Ireland, Pam Anderson or Anna Nicole Smith that title.
Could it be that Dunham is a symbol not of sex as in sexiness, desire, allure, but merely of sex as in animalistic ritual copulation by members of a bored, emotionally stunted and spoiled generation who have never known what it means to date or build a relationship over time? Could it be that the terminally unsexy Dunham is used as a thumb in the eye of so-called misogynistic, heteronormative onlookers who wonder what the fuss is all about? Could it be that media cliques populated by Dunhamesque undesirable women, homosexual men and overseen by menopausal old maids might not be the best judges of what straight males might find attractive?
Dittos for Melisa McCarthy.