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Anonymous wrote:Sure, it's great that a young woman is as successful as she is and doing creative work, getting applauded for it and is in the spotlight so other girls can look up to her. But aside from Being female, she isn't very talented. Her writing borders on poor and subpar, her acting is just her acting as herself and taking her clothes off in every shot. Her stories are juvenile and vapid. She thinks it's deep or profound to present young women in unflattering and messy ways. I just can't even. So over her.

How odd that you were moved to even post this.

How odd that you care so much. I agree with her. LD is so played out. Vile.

Anonymous wrote:She is so hard to look at.

So are you.

She is so hard to look at.

Anonymous wrote:i got turned off after all the naked scenes. Seems like a turn narcissists to me. Please don't compare her to Roseanne.

I think it's good for women, especially younger ones, to see a woman's body that isn't perfect. I agree it's a lot of nudity, but I remind myself how much I could've used a few different points of view growing up.

Anonymous wrote:Everyone who likes her says "oh god forbid someone less than perfect looking blah blah blerg". The fact is she is disgusting. Revolting. Says a lot about her fan base in my opinion

Wow, I'm sorry you hate yourself so much, PP.

Anonymous wrote:Sure, it's great that a young woman is as successful as she is and doing creative work, getting applauded for it and is in the spotlight so other girls can look up to her. But aside from Being female, she isn't very talented. Her writing borders on poor and subpar, her acting is just her acting as herself and taking her clothes off in every shot. Her stories are juvenile and vapid. She thinks it's deep or profound to present young women in unflattering and messy ways. I just can't even. So over her.

Cool story, bro. (p.s. your misogyny is showing)

Oh, and to echo a pp - I get why not everyone likes Girls, what I dont grt is why so much vitriol for it - I question much more why so many crappy and poorly written/acted shows are such successes.

I think she is a very talented writer and actress, and I find the show Girls a fresh, funny and smart show to watch, and I love that its characters are deeply flawed and real. I think a lot of people's angst about her and the show Girls is rooted in sexism which makes me very sad, because I suspect most of her critics are women. Partly people have less tolerance for less than beautiful stars (Lena is not unattractive imo, she just doesn't pander to using appearance for her characters), and also people find brashly funny women threatening for some reason - see: Lena, Sarah Silverman, Amy Schumer, etc. Women are their own worst enemies ...

Anonymous wrote:She's talented. Lena makes people think, she creates a dialogue, she's controversial, and she's insightful. You may not agree with what she writes, you may not like it, but she is talented.

And funny!

She's talented. Lena makes people think, she creates a dialogue, she's controversial, and she's insightful. You may not agree with what she writes, you may not like it, but she is talented.

Anonymous wrote:Everyone who likes her says "oh god forbid someone less than perfect looking blah blah blerg". The fact is she is disgusting. Revolting. Says a lot about her fan base in my opinion

What does it say about her fan base? I think you are very narrow-minded and sad, like most of her critics

I'm sure Lena Dunham is crying into her multi-million dollar HBO contract right now thinking of all of you anonymous posters who think she's 'not that talented.' And when her HBO contract gets soggy, she whips out her multi-million dollar book contract to soak up the tears.

Anonymous wrote:Sure, it's great that a young woman is as successful as she is and doing creative work, getting applauded for it and is in the spotlight so other girls can look up to her. But aside from Being female, she isn't very talented. Her writing borders on poor and subpar, her acting is just her acting as herself and taking her clothes off in every shot. Her stories are juvenile and vapid. She thinks it's deep or profound to present young women in unflattering and messy ways. I just can't even. So over her.

How odd that you were moved to even post this.

Anonymous wrote:Sure, it's great that a young woman is as successful as she is and doing creative work, getting applauded for it and is in the spotlight so other girls can look up to her. But aside from Being female, she isn't very talented. Her writing borders on poor and subpar, her acting is just her acting as herself and taking her clothes off in every shot. Her stories are juvenile and vapid. She thinks it's deep or profound to present young women in unflattering and messy ways. I just can't even. So over her.

As a student of literature, I'd say that is actually a pretty provocative way to present women, as neither goddess or nor minion, but as unique flawed and talented humans.

Wow I totally disagree. I'm 32 - is it an age thing maybe?

I'm 43 and I really like Girls and think that Lena Dunham is extremely talented. She has great insights into that stage of life for a particular type of person, and watching this show often makes me either nostalgic for that stage in life, or commiserating with the character for her bad choices having mad those same bad choices myself. Lena Dunham is no more shoved down people's throats than Gwyneth Paltrow or Jennifer Lawrence.