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October 30, 2014

Lena Dunham is fond of lists.

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Here is a list of things in Lena Dunham’s life that do not strike Lena Dunham as being unusual:
growing up in a $6.25 million Tribeca apartment; attending a selection of elite private schools; renting a home in Hollywood Hills well before having anything quite resembling a job and complaining that the home is insufficiently “chic”; the habitual education of the men in her family at Andover; the services of a string of foreign nannies; being referred to a homework therapist when she refused to do her homework and being referred to a relationship therapist when she fought with her mother; constant visits to homeopathic doctors, and visits to child psychologists three times a week; having a summer home on a lake in Connecticut, and complaining about it; writing a “voice of her generation” memoir in which ordinary life events among members of her generation, such as making student-loan payments or worrying about the rent or health insurance, never come up; making casual trips to Malibu; her grandparents’ having taken seven-week trips to Europe during her mother’s childhood; spending a summer at a camp at which the costs can total almost as much as the median American family’s annual rent; being histrionically miserable at said camp and demanding to be brought home early; demanding to be sent back to the same expensive camp the next year.
Pathetic Privilege | National Review Online

Posted by gerardvanderleun at October 30, 2014 8:55 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Now i understand why Hillary seems so flummoxed. There before her stands a woman to be jealous of. The “I think I may be the voice of my generation.” Quote by Dunham sounds like the Democratic halfman/halfwoman ideology so many of them wish for themselves. Oh to be out and safely detached from the necessary trash they spend so much time avoiding but need to keep them in office.

Posted by: Kelvin [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 30, 2014 10:04 AM

Don't know what that thing is but it needs killed.

Posted by: ghostsniper [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 30, 2014 10:31 AM

Dunham's on-screen character has parents who tell her to go support herself, as they have no intention of carrying her anymore.

Stupid me. I thought that was autobiographical. So: Dunham's another fraud.

Posted by: DonRodrigo [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 30, 2014 12:45 PM

Christ! Did anyone else read the whole thing? This celebrated "creature" used to diddle her little sister, and writes casually about it. And her parents were perverts who had serious family money. The very essence of multi-generational degenerates.

ghostsniper's prescription has serious merit.

Posted by: DonRodrigo [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 30, 2014 12:52 PM

Its probably mostly lies, but still beyond what we kids used to call nasty. A monster for sure.

Posted by: pbird [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 30, 2014 1:56 PM

The only thing she lacks is a good hard punch in the face. Nah, make that two.

Celebrate Assholes Get a Punch in the Face Day.

Posted by: chasmatic [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 30, 2014 7:18 PM

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