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[quote=Anonymous]For those who are like, "Why are you sick of LD?" I would present her recent book tour which resulted in the following piece in the NYT: "The Interview | Lena Dunham Is Still Trying to Figure Out Why People Hated Her So Much"

Great piece, btw, and ironically made me understand her a bit more. Did not, however, make me want to read her memoir. I wish her the best and am happy she seems a bit more stable.

"In hindsight, what do you think the intensity of the loathing of you was really about? I’d be lying if I said I haven’t spent time thinking about this. I’m going to say something that sounds like a cop-out, but I can only phrase it this way: I have annoyed people since I was so small. I was an annoying kid. I was a tryhard. I was loud. I didn’t always know how to move through space with other kids in a way that wasn’t a little off or disruptive. But, also, that was coupled with intense rage about the female sexuality on the show. There was the intense rage about my body, which is so crazy to look back on now, because I was this little slip of a 26-year-old. Had I known my own powers, I would have behaved very differently. And then my own way of moving, whether it was through media or how I handled myself online or even in my writing, didn’t quell it."

My reaction to this is that the discourse on DCUM solely focuses on the rage about female sexuality & her body & attempts to erase the "annoying tryhard" that Dunham herself recognizes. Read the NYT piece though if you're interested in this topic or her at all, tho! It's very well done.[/quote]

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