Society doesn’t allow for people to be both unlikable and unattractive at the same time, especially women.

People don't like it when big girls have main character energy.

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Anonymous wrote:Lol she's been totally off everyone's radar for years, then she pops up with an interview and a project, and you're already "tired" of her.

She really sets people off. I also find her annoying but I find many celebrities annoying. I think the hate against her is much worse because she's not pretty and people do not feel she deserves to be famous as a result.

Agree. I think people are triggered because it seems like a mediocre person with mediocre writing and mediocre looks and mediocre acting is getting her mediocre projects on HBO and Netflix. Writers and actors and producers would kill to get their screenplays picked up by HBO. And it seems to effortlessly happen for Lena Durham, and people can't figure out why. But people are still talking about Girls and Lena Dunham, so she clearly is hitting a nerve. And that's good of course.

She got the HBO deal because of her indie film called Tiny Furniture. It caught the eye of Judd Apatow and he was instrumental in getting her that deal. I remember seeing the movie and thinking it was really good. One thing that stood out to me was that she showed her imperfect body in the film as no big deal and that was unusual at the time. She was not a conventional heroine and it showed (as did Girls) how an unattractive girl is treated by others. Then she went full fantasy with making her character on Girls as being the object of desire, more than the others. That's when I stopped watching. She wrote a memoir which was ridiculed. I think she was like many people who get success when young. They believe their own hype and become arrogant. She has made a lot of missteps and outright blunders. I hated the baby doll dresses and the tattoos. She was like someone in a state of arrested development. I think she had one or two interesting insights into body image but not much else.

Anonymous wrote:I like plenty of not conventionally pretty female actresses either talented or funny, but do not find Lena Dunham to be either. She only mildly bugs me because mostly I don't think about her, which seems to trigger her. She seems to think she is entitled to be regarded as a genius level writer and or artist. I just don't agree, and it has nothing to do with her looks. I find her arrogance and self centeredness off putting. Might be true for other celebs as well but I can't think of another high profile artist who complains that people find them irritating and/or not to their taste.

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Anonymous wrote:Lol she's been totally off everyone's radar for years, then she pops up with an interview and a project, and you're already "tired" of her.

She really sets people off. I also find her annoying but I find many celebrities annoying. I think the hate against her is much worse because she's not pretty and people do not feel she deserves to be famous as a result.

Agree. I think people are triggered because it seems like a mediocre person with mediocre writing and mediocre looks and mediocre acting is getting her mediocre projects on HBO and Netflix. Writers and actors and producers would kill to get their screenplays picked up by HBO. And it seems to effortlessly happen for Lena Durham, and people can't figure out why. But people are still talking about Girls and Lena Dunham, so she clearly is hitting a nerve. And that's good of course.

Wasn't that kind of a plot point of Girls? That the main character she played thought she was awesome because things came easy to get but then suddenly she wasn't all that? Like when she went to the Iowa Writers workshop? She was just mediocre. But that's a complaint about the whole Millennial generation, and she captured it well in Girls.

I agree with pp that we tolerate and maybe even encourage very similar behaviors much more in people who are conventionally attractive and slim.

Anonymous wrote:Lol she's been totally off everyone's radar for years, then she pops up with an interview and a project, and you're already "tired" of her.

She really sets people off. I also find her annoying but I find many celebrities annoying. I think the hate against her is much worse because she's not pretty and people do not feel she deserves to be famous as a result.

Agree. I think people are triggered because it seems like a mediocre person with mediocre writing and mediocre looks and mediocre acting is getting her mediocre projects on HBO and Netflix. Writers and actors and producers would kill to get their screenplays picked up by HBO. And it seems to effortlessly happen for Lena Durham, and people can't figure out why. But people are still talking about Girls and Lena Dunham, so she clearly is hitting a nerve. And that's good of course.

I like plenty of not conventionally pretty female actresses either talented or funny, but do not find Lena Dunham to be either. She only mildly bugs me because mostly I don't think about her, which seems to trigger her. She seems to think she is entitled to be regarded as a genius level writer and or artist. I just don't agree, and it has nothing to do with her looks. I find her arrogance and self centeredness off putting. Might be true for other celebs as well but I can't think of another high profile artist who complains that people find them irritating and/or not to their taste.

She wrote a show featuring herself hooking up with handsome men! I actually think it’s kind of endearing. It’s like David Lynch, writing in a scene of himself kissing a beautiful babe because he’s the visionary and he does what he wants. For an old man to do that is one thing, but a young fat woman is beyond the pale!

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Anonymous wrote:Lol she's been totally off everyone's radar for years, then she pops up with an interview and a project, and you're already "tired" of her.

She really sets people off. I also find her annoying but I find many celebrities annoying. I think the hate against her is much worse because she's not pretty and people do not feel she deserves to be famous as a result.

I totally agree with this. It's fascinating. And it's that she had the nerve to write a show where she was a character with romantic partners and show herself and her body when she is not conventionally attractive. It's triggering to people.

I also see a little high functioning autism there in a way that grates on people. This is going to sound crazy, but she and Taylor Swift are sort of similar to me- both famous millenials, both have some autistic /awkward behaviors and both are from parents who had money to help their daughters careers.

Taylor Swifts awkwardness is endearing and she is more attractive, so she collects fans, but Lena Dunham’s awkwardness makes you cringe as she is more abrasive, less of a social rules follower and less attractive.

Anonymous wrote:She doesn’t have to be pretty. She’s always been rich.

And it shows. She's a spoiled brat. So obnoxious, and that has nothing to do with looks.

Anonymous wrote:Lol she's been totally off everyone's radar for years, then she pops up with an interview and a project, and you're already "tired" of her.

She really sets people off. I also find her annoying but I find many celebrities annoying. I think the hate against her is much worse because she's not pretty and people do not feel she deserves to be famous as a result.

I totally agree with this. It's fascinating. And it's that she had the nerve to write a show where she was a character with romantic partners and show herself and her body when she is not conventionally attractive. It's triggering to people.

Anonymous wrote:She doesn’t have to be pretty. She’s always been rich.

This, she's always been rich and connected. Her parents are very famous artists and her dad is from an old money elite NY family (they're related to the Tiffany family).

She doesn’t have to be pretty. She’s always been rich.

Lol she's been totally off everyone's radar for years, then she pops up with an interview and a project, and you're already "tired" of her.

She really sets people off. I also find her annoying but I find many celebrities annoying. I think the hate against her is much worse because she's not pretty and people do not feel she deserves to be famous as a result.

She bugs me. She seems self-involved and fame-thirsty.
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