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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRe: The Lena Dunham Obama ad
Who else thinks the right-wing freak-out over that is motivated (at least in part) by the fact that she's a young, white woman and she talks suggestively about a non-white president?
temporary311
(955 posts)That aspect of it didnt even occur to me. Could play a part.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)I really don't want any implications of sex scandals, even comedically and fictional, tied to our politicians....only Rethuglicans get away with that.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Their supporters and the media are nothing more than enablers.
We should deal with the Right in the same way that heroin addicts are death with.
dawg
(10,624 posts)I thought the ad was cute, as was the young woman. She's not a cousin or anything is she?
RomneyLies
(3,333 posts)dawg
(10,624 posts)I just wondered if there was any relation to the President.
RomneyLies
(3,333 posts)I like Girls and I loved Tiny Furniture.
She's a brilliant actress and her ad was hilarious.
CakeGrrl
(10,611 posts)The suggestion that she's losing her virginity to...a black man.
Trust - it's the reason they're pissed off.
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)but when I first saw it I cringed inside. I knew the backlash and I know this type of thing will turn off some women. Whether those women were ever going to vote for PBO is another question. I think we're too wrapped up in sex in the US, obvious in all the recent GOP rape talk. It's nice to see an ad positive about sex even if it's just innuendo.
alp227
(32,046 posts)Sadly I already found one extreme right forum that includes "chimp" in the title that called Dunham a " n-word) lover". But I think the backlash is part of a greater fantasy nostalgia for an America where it was all fine and dandy because women knew their place...under the authority of their husbands and were hitched for life at age 22.