A helpful heads-up to media outlets covering Hillary Clinton's campaign for president -- if you haven't already, you'll soon receive a list of Words That Shall Not Be Used in your coverage, courtesy of one pissed off Lena Dunham. And if you think Dunham is unbearable on any given day, she's off the charts toxic when angry. Please don't make it worse.
During an interview with Variety this week, the creator, star and frequent writer of the purportedly entertaining HBO series Girls condemned media coverage of Clinton's campaign as "rabidly sexist" -- in every single instance.
Yes, every single one, which presumably includes even those provided by the fawning supplicants at MSNBC --
The way that Hillary Clinton's been talked about in the media is so gendered and rabidly sexist in every single portrayal, the adjectives, whether it's the attacks on her personal life or the adjectives that are used to describe her clothing, we have to do a full reexamination, like, I literally want to make a list that we hand to media outlets that says, like, these are the words you can't use when describing a female candidate -- shrill, inaccessible, difficult, frumpy, plastic. I mean, there's just a list of words that if we were allowed to talk about male candidates like that, I'd have a f***ing field day. I'd enjoy my life so much. Sorry, I get too worked up.
"Too worked up" -- sounds like Dunham is being a tad sexist, albeit toward herself.
Most amusing here is Dunham's delusional belief that we aren't "allowed" to talk about male candidates like that. Really? This explains why Chris Christie is so rarely ridiculed because of his weight. Or why Donald Trump is hardly ever mocked because of his hair, to cite another example. Much as one seldom hears criticism of Ted Cruz as too scripted or plastic. Come to think of it, are all three candidates actually women in men's clothing and I'm the last to notice?
Dunham has even more reason than most to use these dreaded words against men running for office because by her own admission, doing so would provide her with a "f***ing field day" and she'd at long last "enjoy my life so much." A small price to pay for such joy!
It's wholly in character for her to expect others to share in her habit of self-censorship, though Dunham would do much of the world a huge favor by engaging in it more often.
Did Dunham hammer out a list of demands when Seth Meyers compared Carly Fiorina to Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction -- or does she get angry only when lady Dems are maligned?
Dunham neglected to cite specific examples of media miscreants in need of rabies treatment for their coverage of the Clinton campaign, though you'd think it would not be difficult to find several in the minutes preceding her interview with Variety.
Was anything preventing Dunham from "literally" presenting her list of forbidden words to the media outlet interviewing her at the time? Perhaps a reluctance to appear bossy after allowing herself to become overwrought.
