2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumLena Dunham on smears from Bernie fans: “I’m going to turn into a shaking ogre woman”
When you think of all the horrible things that have been said to and about Lena Dunham, youd have to wonder if shed be hard-pressed to pick the sources of some of the really outstanding stuff. This after all is a woman whos been called am incestuous sex abuser for memoir revelations like bribing her sister for kisses when they were children. A woman who, in her own estimation, has routinely been described as fat and hideous. One whose veiled description of a man she says sexually assaulted her in college led conservative sites to call her a rape hoaxer. So who was she talking about this weekend, when she mentioned a group that has been giving very very special grief of late? Other members of the Democratic Party. Oh, it Berns. It Berns.
I swear to God I dont know how were all going to make it to November. This terrifying fiasco of an election year would be bad enough if the only thing we had to worry about was the Orange One. But the way that those of us who call ourselves liberal have become caught up in the ugly Hillary v. Bernie race is just exhausting. At least theres some consolation in knowing that apparently everybody else is in the crosshairs too. Variety reports that at a weekend Clinton campaign event in Hollywood, the Girls creator and star said decisively that I have received more hostility for voting for a qualified female candidate than I have ever received anywhere from the American right wing. Thats quite a feat, considering the National Review has accused her of building an ever-thicker cocoon of fantasy, prescription drugs, and weaponized celebrity, [and] manipulating reality to her own specifications, and Truth Revolt has called her a child molester.
Dunham, who appeared at the event with Chelsea Clinton and actress America Ferrera, went on to describe how on Instagram, a Sanders fan who obviously had no avatar commented to her recently that Bernie Sanders had done more for feminism than Hillary Clinton ever had an observation that led Dunham to lose her freaking mind. She went on to say that The fact that other members of the Democratic Party have spoken to me like I was an ill informed child for voting for someone who represents everything I think this country should be is outrageous
. The idea that youre gonna tell me that the woman who stepped into the White House when I was 6 years old and made me think it was possible to live the life I wanted and say the things I believed has somehow not done enough for women is so offensive to the core of my being. She concluded, Im going to stop talking now because Im going to turn into a shaking ogre woman.
In recent months, the phenomenon of Bernie Bros has become a sore spot in a campaign year of unlimited festering wounds. First, there came the identification of the species described last fall in the Atlantic with the explanation that The Berniebro is not every Bernie Sanders supporter. Sanderss support skews young, but not particularly male. The Berniebro is male, though. Very male. Then there came the stories of that particular strain Bernie fans who Elon James White says, harass and try to take away the credibility from the people who question Mr. Sanders. Mashable likewise reported on the growing sexist mob of Sanders supporters. Then of course came the Bernie Bros deniers, like the Huffington Post piece announcing they were a myth created by angry white people supporting Hillaryor the Glenn Greenwald story calling the term an all-purpose, handy pro-Clinton smear.
Last month, Sanders told his more troll-centric fans that We dont want that crap and that Anybody who is supporting me that is doing the sexist things we dont want them. And while the responses Dunhams received from Sanders fans sound more like everyday mansplaining than full-on crap, they do speak to something Jessica Grose talked about earlier this year in Dunhams Lenny Letter the infuriating assumption that women who support Hillary are somehow doing so under orders from their confused little lady reproductive systems. And its one thing when your ostensible idealogical opponents are condescending to you like it, its quite another when youre hearing it from the other members of your own political party.
http://www.salon.com/2016/03/21/lena_dunhams_biggest_haters_are_bernie_fans_im_going_to_turn_into_a_shaking_ogre_woman_over_smears_from_fellow_dems/
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DanTex
(20,709 posts)And also "Ferrera" means "Lena Dunham".
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)She can say whatever she wants, but it doesn't mean much to me.
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)Nor could I tell you WHY I've heard her name. Is she a singer?
Juicy_Bellows
(2,427 posts)Her own words about her growing up with her sister were enough for me to tune her out forever.
However, I do not condone people doing anything more than giving her the business - threats and other shit is uncalled for.
Tarc
(10,472 posts)panader0
(25,816 posts)SMC22307
(8,088 posts)Native American Hopi Carved Ogre Woman Disciplinarian Katsina Doll
I dunno.
panader0
(25,816 posts)Thank you.
Google to the rescue... no prob!
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Lena Dunham
Actress · lenadunham.com
Lena Dunham is an American actress, writer, producer, and director. She is best known as the creator, writer and star of the HBO series Girls, for which she has received numerous Emmy award nominations and two Golden Globe awards. Wikipedia
Born: May 13, 1986 (age 29), New York City, NY
Partner: Jack Antonoff (2012)
Siblings: Grace Dunham
Books: Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's Learned
Parents: Laurie Simmons, Carroll Dunham
I had to google this... I really cannot or could not care less about entertainers, truly
SMC22307
(8,088 posts)ThePhilosopher04
(1,732 posts)scscholar
(2,902 posts)That's why we should care.