“Her feminism is less a philosophy to which she is committed than a brand from which she is willing to profit when it is convenient to her and abandon when it is not. o one’s feminism is ever going to be completely pure — but Dunham’s keeps revealing more and more flaws... A consequence of a more dee…”— Constance Grady, vox.comTagged: lena dunham, White Feminism
“She appeared to be congratulating herself on being progressive enough to critique millennial racism, while simultaneously refusing to do the work necessary to incorporate people of color into her fictional world.”— Constance Grady, vox.comTagged: Hypocrisy, Fake Woke, Neoliberalism, White Feminism, Diversity
“Not only were the four main characters white, but so were nearly all of the show’s supporting characters. When people of color did emerge in the background, they were treated as flat stereotypes. And Dunham’s writers’ room was mostly white, meaning that she largely wasn’t hiring people who did have…”— Constance Grady, vox.comTagged: Girls (Tv Series), Hollywood, Diversity, stereotypes
“Dunham’s defense of Miller looked like the worst kind of hypocrisy. She was apparently willing to publicly state that it’s terrible when people refuse to believe that their friends and colleagues might be capable of hurting women, but if it’s her friend and colleague in question, then everyone shoul…”— Constance Grady, vox.comTagged: lena dunham, Hypocrisy, Sexual Harassment
“The structure of our society and legal system is so stacked against victims of sexual assault that believing the victims is a basic pillar of feminism: If we live in a world where the standard response to sexual assault is to find a way to demonstrate that the victim was somehow asking for it, the b…”— Constance Grady, vox.comTagged: feminism, Victim Blaming, Rape, Sexual Assault