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meep meep's avatar

Thank you for writing this - I thought i was going mad watching Girls reemerge in public consciousness and people talking about Lena Dunham being misunderstood! Could see no trace whatsoever of the criticisms that were around when Girls initially came out, which I found so odd.

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mal's avatar

woah! beautiful autopsy. this reminds me of a video essay I watched about anna marie tendler and her memoir. a public facing white woman who was disposed of in front of millions and seems trapped in circles and systems of power she clearly resents. or perhaps the abuse from these systems has led her to find them familiar. so she returns to them over and over again looking for something they cannot provide

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