Every paragraph is a spot-on take down of the perpetually puerile Dunham and her “5 reasons to Vote”:
Our national commitment to permanent, asinine, incontinent juvenility, which results in, among other things, a million or so abortions a year, is not entirely unrelated to the cultural debasement that is the only possible explanation for the career of Lena Dunham. A people mature enough to manage the relationship between procreative input and procreative output without recourse to the surgical dismemberment of living human organisms probably would not find much of interest in the work of Miss Dunham. But we are a nation of adult children so horrified by the prospect of actual children that we put one in five of them to death for such excellent reasons as the desire to fit nicely into a prom dress.
It’s not for nothing that, on the precipice of 30, Miss Dunham is famous for a television series called Girls rather than one called Women. She might have gone one better and called it Thumbsuckers. (The more appropriate title Diapers would terrify her demographic.)
Miss Dunham, reflecting celebrity culture at large, makes a fetish of voting, and it is easy to see why: Voting is the most shallow gesture of citizenship there is, the issuance of a demand — a statement that “this is how the world should be,” as Miss Dunham puts it — imposing nothing in the way of reciprocal responsibility. Power without responsibility — Stanley Baldwin would not have been surprised that Miss Dunham and likeminded celebrities think of voting in terms of their sex lives. Miss Dunham, in an earlier endorsement of Barack Obama, compared voting in the presidential election to losing one’s virginity — you want it to be someone special. Understood that way, voting is nothing other than a reiteration of the original infantile demand: “I Want!” […]
[F]or Miss Dunham et al., this isn’t a question of citizenship — it’s a therapeutic matter. Voting, she promises, will offer “a sense of accomplishment,” knowledge that one has done the right thing, even “joy.” But checking a box is the most trivial accomplishment imaginable; having done so is no guarantee that one has done the right thing, inasmuch as voters routinely make bad decisions for evil reasons; and one suspects that Miss Dunham means something different and less by “joy” than did, say, Beethoven or Walt Whitman. “I wore fishnets and a little black dress to vote,” she writes, “then walked around with a spring in my slinky step. It lasted for days. I can summon it when I’m blue. It’s more effective than exercise or ecstasy or cheesecake.” And that of course is the highest purpose of our ancient constitutional order: to provide adult children with pleasures exceeding those of cheesecake or empathogenic phenethylamines. […]
Those of us who have been working against various mandates imposed by the Affordable Care Act are as a matter of fact attempting to extricate ourselves from involvement in Lena Dunham’s sex life, the details of which we would gratefully leave to her own idiosyncratic management. It is the so-called Affordable Care Act that has involved us in subsidizing birth control, abortifacients, surgical abortions, and who knows what else, for the strong, powerful, self-actualized American woman who cannot figure out how to walk into Walgreens, lay down the price of a latte, and walk out with her own birth-control pills, no federal intervention necessary. The very conservative editors of this magazine are in fact trying to make it easier for them to do so with over-the-counter birth control. I suspect that Miss Dunham does not know very many conservatives, so allow me to pass along the message: We really, truly, sincerely do not wish to be involved in your sex life.
I would like to suggest, as gently as I can, that if you are voting as an act of self-gratification, if you do not understand the role that voting in fact plays in a constitutional republic, and if you need Lena Dunham to tell you why and how you should be voting — you should not vote. If you get your politics from actors and your news from television comedians — you should not vote. There’s no shame in it, your vote is statistically unlikely to affect the outcome of an election, and there are many much more meaningful ways to serve your country and your fellow man: Volunteer at a homeless shelter; join the Marine Corps; become a nun; start a business.
And maybe think about acting like men and women rather than boys and Girls.
Read the whole thing.
It is noteworthy that Ms. Dunham’s “blog post” allows no comments and her twitter feed is as shallow and genitalia-obsessed as her show.
It’s all she has. She’s a one-trick pony, or something.
Bless her heart.
Who inna world is Lena Dunham, I asked the g00gle?
I’m unimpressed by her ‘accomplishments‘.
A better question, “How did this poor child get so screwed up in the first place?”
That takes us to her parents, and to her upbringing (if you want to call it that) (in a New York City loft).
Her Daddy is an artist!
Her Mommy is an artist too!
This kid never had a chance. Just another vilespot in “Generation Wuss“.
– Artists, almost without exception (I give you Linda Ronstadt as a prime example) need to be nannied and protected through their entire lives, and never never asked any political questions, which generally sends their right handed brains off into a tumultuous frenzy of fantastical, bizarre, dissonance.
– Children of artists should be caged.
Lena Dunham is a shallow fool?
I’m shocked. Shocked!
Cranky, I have the Shallow Fool Anti-Defamation League on Line 2. They want me to tell you, “It’s a fair cop.”
For Lena and her ilk, Dr. School recommends “Freeze Away”.
School or Scholl? Stupid auto correct.
Interweb also suggests duct tape for wart removal.
Seconded?
>Seconded?<
no go proggslam: use a knife shouting allan ackbartsimpson.
That kind of exhibitionism is often a sign of sexual abuse, but instead of giving her help they gave her a show.
That’s show biz for ya: we’ll indulge any neuroses you got until it kills ya.
I’ll bet in Lena’s case it’s just a scream for attention.
Dunham is a trainwreck, although, I suppose trainwrecks have their standards and Ms. Dunham probably doesn’t meet them…
Train wreck? They should just send her to Crush, if it’s exhibitionism she’s into.