I was curious and once started watching a “Girls” episode from Lena Dunham’s Emmy award-winning show.
Within five minutes I saw a bedroom scene closely cropped by the half-open door showing a str*p-on slipping out of a guy’s bottom.
And that is enough of that, I thought to myself.
Well, I almost wish that I paid attention to whatever it is that Ms Dunham does, so I could stop in protest.
My hope is that some day the mass of ordinary American humanity will become so disgusted with these celebrity scolds, these superior persons who hector us on so many levels, that they will punish them in the most severe manner possible; i.e., ignore them when they work, ignore them when they speak, ignore them in every way. Never happen, of course.
Now I have to look over my damn shoulder every time I’m about to say something un-PC because Lena Dunham might be standing behind me, filming it.
One good thing about living abroad is Never seeing Girls, The Apprentice, Honey Boo Boo or any of the other s**t that seems to draw so many American viewers. I only hear of it occasionally on blogs, and that is enough. Now, if only Acosta could get CNN Int removed from our TV, the world would be a better place.
Now I have to look over my damn shoulder every time I’m about to say something un-PC
Sean: I understand. But given her history of “embellishing” for narrative effect, I assume the odds are better than half Dunham made up the trans quote.
At school I could never understand why the behaviour that was most severely punished was “drawing attention” to oneself.
The attention-seeking class clowns were annoying, crashing bores but appeared to me, (then), less objectionable than the pot smokers and truants who were punished less severely.
Life has since taught me why: our teachers knew that the attention-seeking/ narcissism strain never exists in a vacuum. It is the basis of all the rest of the anti-social pathology spectrum: dishonesty, arrogance,intolerance, cupidity, etc.
Such people as the vulgar Dunham woman are, in their own minds, the sun around whom the rest of us orbit “and attention must be paid”.
How little must one think of others to imagine, even for a second, that squatting on a toilet while stuffing cake into your gob would be fascinating to others. What a warped world view.
I have to say though, Expat, while I am with you on the thrust of your comment – I must rise to defend Mama June of “Honey Boo Boo” fame. I watched a couple of episodes in the first season and thought that while her dietary choices were a tad bizarre, her basic values were quite sound. She seemed to me to at least be trying to instill some discipline in her children and they seemed to be quite well behaved and respectful of her and others for the most part.
Huxley,
But given her history of “embellishing” for narrative effect, I assume the odds are better than half Dunham made up the trans quote.
She’s the girl at the party who goes around saying, “That joke wasn’t funny,” any time she hears an off-color joke. How she’s managed to go this long without getting smacked and dressed down is beyond me.
I was curious and once started watching a “Girls” episode from Lena Dunham’s Emmy award-winning show.
Within five minutes I saw a bedroom scene closely cropped by the half-open door showing a str*p-on slipping out of a guy’s bottom.
And that is enough of that, I thought to myself.
Well, I almost wish that I paid attention to whatever it is that Ms Dunham does, so I could stop in protest.
My hope is that some day the mass of ordinary American humanity will become so disgusted with these celebrity scolds, these superior persons who hector us on so many levels, that they will punish them in the most severe manner possible; i.e., ignore them when they work, ignore them when they speak, ignore them in every way. Never happen, of course.
Now I have to look over my damn shoulder every time I’m about to say something un-PC because Lena Dunham might be standing behind me, filming it.
One good thing about living abroad is Never seeing Girls, The Apprentice, Honey Boo Boo or any of the other s**t that seems to draw so many American viewers. I only hear of it occasionally on blogs, and that is enough. Now, if only Acosta could get CNN Int removed from our TV, the world would be a better place.
Now I have to look over my damn shoulder every time I’m about to say something un-PC
Sean: I understand. But given her history of “embellishing” for narrative effect, I assume the odds are better than half Dunham made up the trans quote.
At school I could never understand why the behaviour that was most severely punished was “drawing attention” to oneself.
The attention-seeking class clowns were annoying, crashing bores but appeared to me, (then), less objectionable than the pot smokers and truants who were punished less severely.
Life has since taught me why: our teachers knew that the attention-seeking/ narcissism strain never exists in a vacuum. It is the basis of all the rest of the anti-social pathology spectrum: dishonesty, arrogance,intolerance, cupidity, etc.
Such people as the vulgar Dunham woman are, in their own minds, the sun around whom the rest of us orbit “and attention must be paid”.
How little must one think of others to imagine, even for a second, that squatting on a toilet while stuffing cake into your gob would be fascinating to others. What a warped world view.
I have to say though, Expat, while I am with you on the thrust of your comment – I must rise to defend Mama June of “Honey Boo Boo” fame. I watched a couple of episodes in the first season and thought that while her dietary choices were a tad bizarre, her basic values were quite sound. She seemed to me to at least be trying to instill some discipline in her children and they seemed to be quite well behaved and respectful of her and others for the most part.
Huxley,
But given her history of “embellishing” for narrative effect, I assume the odds are better than half Dunham made up the trans quote.
She’s the girl at the party who goes around saying, “That joke wasn’t funny,” any time she hears an off-color joke. How she’s managed to go this long without getting smacked and dressed down is beyond me.
For all my fellow Lena Dunham fans:
https://scontent-ort2-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/20604701_475663302814409_1249987737317999449_n.jpg?oh=f7c36eb55a2b897a2119706fea6bd438&oe=59EE4D67
That Dunham child has long since used up her allotted 15 minutes.