No, Lena Dunham did not call Republicans “Nazis” (or, “This is why we lose”)
Okay, what I got from that exchange was that Lena Dunham thought it might be an interesting idea to explore a “reverse ignorance” that certain stereotypical single females have against the possibility of dating a Republican. To the character, the decision to date a Republican is as black and white as a potential decision to date a Nazi, it’s just not done. And here’s this guy, who she likes, who happens to be a Republican, and Girls is going to take the opportunity to explore an integral liberal bias.
Look, this wouldn’t be such a big deal if this weren’t demonstrative of the wrongheaded, knee-jerk conservative approach to culture. Is Lena Dunham’s show basically a kind of hipster fantasy where she creates characters who have the miserable lives that a bunch of urban trust-fund French Experimental Poetry grad students imagine they have, so that the resultant faux-ennui will further inform their parent-paid-for thesis, and quickly enough before the same family revokes the housing allowance for their 1500-square-foot Williamsburg artist loft? Sure. In her acceptance speech last night at the Golden Globes, Dunham, who is famously the daughter of a successful painter of “oversexualized pop art” and a well-known photographer who created “disquieting domestic tableaux” with dolls, repeatedly reiterated that her work is informed by a horrific childhood spent at expensive New York private schools and summer camps, where she struggled to maintain the integrity of her psyche amid the horrors of life as the kid of upper-middle-class urban artists. The whole thing is bizarre and self-fellating. But it’s also self-referential. The joke here isn’t that Donald Glover (who is adorable) is evil. But that Hannah, Dunham’s character, thinks he’s evil and has to handle the internal conflict.
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And this is important, she is important, why??
right2bright on January 14, 2013 at 1:55 PM
Who is Lena Dunham?
Rocks on January 14, 2013 at 1:56 PM
Can we please dispense with this Big Lie from History?
Look at the translation of that acronym:
Just what does side of the political does that sound like?
Galt2009 on January 14, 2013 at 1:57 PM
Doesn’t she have to get back to making political commercials that compare voting to having sex with men old enough to be your father?
Illinidiva on January 14, 2013 at 1:58 PM
In Lena’s personal life, she thinks voting for Obama is the same as loosing her virginity.
meMC on January 14, 2013 at 2:00 PM
One, did anyone other than Naked DC, whatever that is – no clicks for trolls, even notice this?
Two, who other than Naked DC, whatever that is, is even talking about this?
I suspect the answers are no and no one. As such, why we lose is in part because douchebags like those at Naked DC, whatever that is, create fake controversies to smack around conservatives with.
Dead Hand Control on January 14, 2013 at 2:00 PM
I’m sorry but her comment was extremely dumb and she deserved to get called out. In fact, I think her later comments were an attempt to dig out of the big hole she dug.
terryannonline on January 14, 2013 at 2:03 PM
I don’t care and you can’t make me care.
chimney sweep on January 14, 2013 at 2:03 PM
Who?
Knott Buyinit on January 14, 2013 at 2:04 PM
No more Lena Dunham, please!
Blake on January 14, 2013 at 2:06 PM
If she changed her name to Leni I’d date her!
Seth Halpern on January 14, 2013 at 2:07 PM
No, we lose because of some perverted need to cut our opponents as much slack as possible and tear our hair over what we’re doing wrong.
Was that really the first comparison that came to mind?
Bet a dollar if she’d replaced “Republican” with a more politically-protected group of people (fill in the blank yourself) the interpretation would have been quite different.
tbrosz on January 14, 2013 at 2:08 PM
First world problems.
Having said that, her parents shouldn’t have been allowed to have children.
22044 on January 14, 2013 at 2:13 PM
Exactly.
Her later comments I think were attempt to save her booty. She knew she said something dumb.
terryannonline on January 14, 2013 at 2:13 PM
Oh and how nice the interviewer gave an opportunity to save herself by asking “Wait, so your position is that you shouldn’t date a Republican?”…..
How many Republicans get that opportunity? LOL!
terryannonline on January 14, 2013 at 2:17 PM
Lena “Leni” Dunham — your typical lefty nazi.
Seig Heil, Lena-Leni!
Blake on January 14, 2013 at 2:20 PM
What happened to the old days, when only beautiful women got shows on TV?
portlandon on January 14, 2013 at 2:33 PM
Her show looks like your typical Horrific p.o.s that the younger generation just eats up. what is she a forty year old playing a twenty-something?
ChunkyLover on January 14, 2013 at 2:43 PM
Does this pretentious dumbmass sentence have a meaning or purpose in any language? Who but an illiterate writes disjointed dribbling crap like this?!
stukinIL4now on January 14, 2013 at 2:49 PM
unfortunatly, a number of people will read that sentece and think how intellegent and insightful that person is. To answer your question this is type of thinking and writing that liberal arts majors are being taught by their left profs.
ChunkyLover on January 14, 2013 at 2:54 PM
I never heard of this chick, so I clicked the link and saw her picture. DAMN!
Travis Bickle on January 14, 2013 at 2:56 PM
so much of what is consider high culture today is complete trash, which is insulting to trash.
ChunkyLover on January 14, 2013 at 2:58 PM
She’s alot closer to Eddie Munster than Barbara Eden or Tina Louise. I wouldn’t sneeze on her.
Travis Bickle on January 14, 2013 at 2:58 PM
I wish I can unlearn about her.
ChunkyLover on January 14, 2013 at 2:59 PM
An overweight, ugly, tattooed broad from NYC who claims(I hope tongue-in-cheek) to speak for her generation. Because if she’s echoing the mindset of most 20-somethings when she says voting for Obama is like losing one’s virginity, then there is no hope for this nation.
And before anyone gives me grief over mocking her looks, if I have to be subjected to someone’s mug being plastered all over TV and magazines, then they either better be A)insanely good-looking or B)incredibly talented. I can tolerate a Susan Boyle since she brings something to the table. That doesn’t appear to be the case with Ms. Dunham.
Doughboy on January 14, 2013 at 3:04 PM
Strange juxtaposition of this skeezer and Natalie Wood’s pic on the front page. Is fugly the new hot?
Travis Bickle on January 14, 2013 at 3:06 PM
The most important question: Why is Hot Air giving this any attention at all?
Clink on January 14, 2013 at 3:07 PM
I admit that I didn’t go to college (or high school, for that matter), but I know what decent sentense structure looks like.
What a waste in TCP/IP packets. I hope they know there’s only a finite number of IPv4 left in the universe.
Sgt Steve on January 14, 2013 at 3:16 PM
Geeze. Is the news really that slow today?
Captain Kirock on January 14, 2013 at 3:21 PM
I thnk she just got some big Hollywood award for encouraging girls to lose their virginity to Barack Obama.
malclave on January 14, 2013 at 3:26 PM
Fat, pasty, tattooed and stupid. My dream girl.
John the Libertarian on January 14, 2013 at 3:34 PM
lol
Anti-Control on January 14, 2013 at 4:18 PM
I think I would weigh in on this … if I cared enough to figure out who said what. It could be funny watching a liberal agonize over whether a Republican was as bad as a Nazi, or worse.
Unfortunately, I barely care enough to say I don’t care.
There Goes The Neighborhood on January 14, 2013 at 7:28 PM