New Lena Dunham Profile Sparks Outraged Indifference on Social Media
by EG
Lena Dunham is pretty sure that she's a big deal, but the internet is more ambivalent. After a new profile of the actress/writer debuted in New York magazine this week, Twitter was alive with expressionsof disdain for her narcissistic behavior. Read on for details.
Via Page Six.
Look out, West Village — Lena Dunham is your problem now.
In a New York magazine profile out Monday, the controversial 32-year-old creator of “Girls” announced she’s left Brooklyn for the quaint Manhattan ‘hood.
Very hard to believe this is real and not the work of the online Lena Dunham Apology Generator! https://t.co/3rINNqZhVz pic.twitter.com/cOTFW0JXIy
— Alyssa Vingan Klein (@alyssavingan) November 26, 2018
“My whole identity was like, Brooklyn, and now I’m like, Thank you, Lord, I’m back amongst my tribe, which is like old people puttering around the health-food store,” she told the magazine’s Allison P. Davis.
The main impetus for her move, it seems, was to avoid the mommy-centric stroller world of brownstone Brooklyn.
Lena Dunham somehow seems to have harnessed and peddled a narrative previously only reserved to white men: that their poor, harmful behaviour is evidence of complexity and vulnerability, and that that, in turn, is of worth enough to be considered both 'honest' and art.
— Zainab Akhtar (@comicsandcola) November 26, 2018
Last winter, the writer and actress underwent an elective hysterectomy to ease the symptoms of her endometriosis — pain so severe, she said, she couldn’t wait to freeze her eggs.
“I just wanna live around old people who are not reminding me every day of my infertility and loneliness,” said Dunham.
In the interview — during which she picked blackheads from the chin of her hairless cat, Irma — the 32-year-old spares no details of her medical procedures, comparing her ovary to a fried clam and boasting that her uterus was “the most misshapen and diseased” her surgeon had ever seen.
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