The Ugly Side of Lena Dunham

PJ Media ^ | 30 Oct 2014 | Stephen Green

[Rummyfan]

Not to take one single smidgen of a thing away from Jonah Goldberg, whom I enjoy and respect in equal and enormous measure, but Kevin Williamson is to me the most interesting thinker at National Review. Today he takes on Girls girl Lena Dunham, who he says in one sense

may truly be the voice of her generation: The enormous affluence and indulgence of her upbringing did not sate her sundry hungers — for adoration, for intellectual respect that she has not earned, for the unsurpassable delight of moral preening — but instead amplified and intensified her sense of entitlement. The Brooklyn of Girls is nothing more or less than a 21st-century version of the Malibu Barbie Dreamhouse, with New York City taxis standing in for the pink Corvette. Writers naturally indulge their own autobiographical and social fantasies, from Brideshead Revisited to The Lord of the Rings, but Girls represents a phenomenon distinctly of our time: the fantasy not worth having.

[Rummyfan]

I thought all the sides were ugly.

[Rummyfan]

That’s not entertainment. That’s narcissistic self-loathing, if such a thing isn’t a contradiction in terms, foisted on us by people who loathe themselves only slightly less than they loathe their audience. I like to tell myself that these postmodern Hollywood types loathe me slightly less than they loathe themselves, but I don’t for one minute actually believe it.

[Reaganez]

I was going to say “Is there another side?”

[PGR88]

I thought all the sides were ugly.

You beat me to it.

[forgotten man]

A spherical blob of fat has no sides.

[Rummyfan]

More on Dunham here:

Pathetic Privilege

[goodwithagun]

Trick question.

[KarlInOhio]

A spherical blob of fat has no sides.

Inside and outside. And from what I've heard her say, the outside is the better half as hard as that can be to believe.

[Rummyfan]

Man, read the whole thing. She is one sick puppy. Sick.

[Chode]

stooopid fat cow... feh

[jocon307]

That dress she wore to some recent awards show was one of the ugliest, most hideous dresses I’ve ever seen. I couldn’t believe anyone would make that dress, much less wear it.

[ought-six]

I’m sorry, but who is Lena Dunham? Seriously, I’ve never heard of her.

[trisham]

Agreed.

[altsehastiin]

“There is no non-horrific interpretation of this episode.”

Williamson, in my view, is better than George Will ever was. A fitting heir to Buckley. The guy regularly crushes it.

[bigbob]

if she was a coin, both sides would be tails

[heshtesh]

My what a cellulite monster Lena Dunham is.......my bet is a Tasmanian Devil has better personality traits!

[Uncle Miltie]

Kevin Williamson is the voice of the GOPe.

[Prospero]

I thought Williamson’s article was fair and balanced, about an ugly topic and an ugly girl, a presumptuous voyeurist about whom National Review Online has had several articles recently, of which I’ve read only Kevin’s.

[Mastador1]

I thought all the sides were ugly.

Damn I hate getting to the party late! {: o

[BenLurkin]

Went to NR and read the first page — am very sorry I did.