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The Ugly Side of Lena Dunham
PJ Media ^ | 30 Oct 2014 | Stephen Green

Posted on 10/30/2014 3:47:13 PM PDT by 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.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dunham; gracedunham; homosexualagenda; lena; lenadunham; molestation; truthrevolt; twitter
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I thought all the sides were ugly.
1 posted on 10/30/2014 3:47:13 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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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.
2 posted on 10/30/2014 3:49:50 PM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Rummyfan

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


3 posted on 10/30/2014 3:50:27 PM PDT by Reaganez
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To: Rummyfan
I thought all the sides were ugly.

You beat me to it.

4 posted on 10/30/2014 3:51:35 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Rummyfan

A spherical blob of fat has no sides.


5 posted on 10/30/2014 3:53:20 PM PDT by forgotten man
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To: Rummyfan
More on Dunham here:

Pathetic Privilege

6 posted on 10/30/2014 3:53:44 PM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Rummyfan

Trick question.


7 posted on 10/30/2014 3:55:01 PM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: forgotten man
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.

8 posted on 10/30/2014 3:57:37 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (The IRS: either criminally irresponsible in backup procedures or criminally responsible of coverup.)
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To: Rummyfan

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


9 posted on 10/30/2014 3:57:41 PM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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stooopid fat cow... feh

10 posted on 10/30/2014 3:59:43 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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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.


11 posted on 10/30/2014 4:03:19 PM PDT by jocon307
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I’m sorry, but who is Lena Dunham? Seriously, I’ve never heard of her.


12 posted on 10/30/2014 4:03:20 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Rummyfan

Agreed.


13 posted on 10/30/2014 4:04:09 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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“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.


14 posted on 10/30/2014 4:04:57 PM PDT by altsehastiin
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To: Rummyfan

if she was a coin, both sides would be tails


15 posted on 10/30/2014 4:05:05 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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My what a cellulite monster Lena Dunham is.......my bet is a Tasmanian Devil has better personality traits!


16 posted on 10/30/2014 4:14:17 PM PDT by heshtesh (I believe in Sarah Palin, the rest not so much.)
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To: Rummyfan

Kevin Williamson is the voice of the GOPe.


17 posted on 10/30/2014 4:23:50 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (I'M WITH CRUZ!)
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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.


18 posted on 10/30/2014 4:30:54 PM PDT by Prospero (Si Deus trucido mihi, ego etiam fides Deus.)
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I thought all the sides were ugly.

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

19 posted on 10/30/2014 4:38:16 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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Went to NR and read the first page — am very sorry I did.


20 posted on 10/30/2014 4:38:30 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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