Anonymous
Post 06/12/2012 15:45     Subject: Girls
Anonymous wrote:OMG SHE IS NOT FAT. She is average looking and an average weight.

Stop projecting your own disgust with your body onto others.


Overall no, but she indeed has a large amount of belly fat. And yes she realizes this which is why she makes it a point for Marnie and Jessa to vent about how she doesn't take care of herself and how she looks and why she shows her body every episode. That physique is a crucial aspect of the Hannah character. She WANTS you to notice it.
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2012 15:39     Subject: Girls
I don't agree that she is an average weight. She seems somewhat overweight. Which is absolutely fine, but I'm not really sure how it advances the plot of the show for her to be naked quite so often.
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2012 15:17     Subject: Girls
OMG SHE IS NOT FAT. She is average looking and an average weight.

Stop projecting your own disgust with your body onto others.
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2012 14:12     Subject: Re:Girls
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: Hannah's body still ultimately grosses me out--but I am amazed the actress has the balls to expose it every week.


Lena Dunham is a lot better adjusted than you are and is a professional success at 25. How does that make you feel?


how do you know?


I do know she is at high risk for a lot of medical diseases (my field--wink wink). All of that mid-section fat had diabetes, heart disease and cancer written all over it. At 25- it is not a healthy way to live.

I was commenting that she was brave to put it all out there, btw. I admire people that exhibit zero body self-conciousness.
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2012 14:10     Subject: Girls
I also love it - there's always a cringe moment in each show but that perfectly reflects how many of us spent our early to mid-20s. When I go back and read my journals from that time, I experience the same exact reaction. I think Lena Dunham is terrific and ridiculously talented.
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2012 13:59     Subject: Girls
It's interesting how my perspective on Adam is shifting as the season progresses. At first, he just seems like a total d#ck who is taking advantage of Hannah and then you start to realize that there is something seriously wrong with him and that Hannah seems oblivious to that. She only seems to care about whether he likes her or not. It's a nicely developed portrait of how you can feel like you're a victim (and in some ways actually are a victim) but also be completely self-centered and exploitative yourself.
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2012 13:50     Subject: Girls
PP, what's your definition of attractive? I like several of the guys on the show. Hanna's dad, for example, and what's her name's now ex-bf.
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2012 12:48     Subject: Girls
The show plays up the shock-effect to the nausiating levels. Did you notice there is not a single "attractive" male character? All of them are vomit inducing. The flaws are taken to comical levels in both female and male characters, but it doesn't make them human, it makes them look like play-dough characters, so fake and doughy. But I keep watching, it oddly has the same kind of attraction as Sex in the City. Both shows are train wrecks, can't look away.
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2012 12:39     Subject: Girls
She's not body-policing, she doesn't feel the need to protect herself from body-policing, and she has a show on HBO. And I'm pretty sure the last article I read on her said she's 25.

Anonymous
Post 06/12/2012 12:21     Subject: Re:Girls
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: Hannah's body still ultimately grosses me out--but I am amazed the actress has the balls to expose it every week.


Lena Dunham is a lot better adjusted than you are and is a professional success at 25. How does that make you feel?


how do you know?
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2012 11:58     Subject: Re:Girls
Anonymous wrote: Hannah's body still ultimately grosses me out--but I am amazed the actress has the balls to expose it every week.


Lena Dunham is a lot better adjusted than you are and is a professional success at 25. How does that make you feel?
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2012 11:06     Subject: Re:Girls
It's starting to grow on me. I trashed this show on here after the first couple of episodes- but it is slowly growing on me.

I did like that Jess was kind of put in her place. I like that Marnie finally stood up to Hannah's mooching. Hannah's body still ultimately grosses me out--but I am amazed the actress has the balls to expose it every week. I also am impressed that she is willing to make her character despicable which is what she is becoming.
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2012 10:30     Subject: Girls
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I love the show. I even love Hanna. I think it is brilliant and it makes perfect sense that uptight, perfectionistic people would hate it.


Some people are able to engage in character analysis without it being about them. You apparently need to make things about you and how you are so different from uptight and perfectionist people and therefore love the show. Hating Hanna says nothing about one's own personality, but instead about the skill with which the character is crafted. Perhaps her self-obsession is familiar to you. Marnie is the uptight and perfectionist and until Sunday, loved Hanna more than anyone, so your analysis doesn't really work.
Guys, guys, take it outside!
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2012 09:48     Subject: Girls
Anonymous wrote:I love the show. I even love Hanna. I think it is brilliant and it makes perfect sense that uptight, perfectionistic people would hate it.


Some people are able to engage in character analysis without it being about them. You apparently need to make things about you and how you are so different from uptight and perfectionist people and therefore love the show. Hating Hanna says nothing about one's own personality, but instead about the skill with which the character is crafted. Perhaps her self-obsession is familiar to you. Marnie is the uptight and perfectionist and until Sunday, loved Hanna more than anyone, so your analysis doesn't really work.
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2012 09:43     Subject: Re:Girls
The writing is incredible. I frequently find myself repelled, attracted and cringing -- she evokes a response.