she met on the Internet.
Posted on 01/15/2013 12:09:57 PM PST by drewh
Lena Dunham, creator of the HBO sitcom "Girls," has stated that the character she plays would view dating a black Republican the same way as dating a Nazi.
The show's second season premieres Sunday night, and Dunham's character Hannah has found a new love interest in Donald Glover of NBC's "Community," whose character is a Republican. In an interview with New York Magagazine, Dunham explains what his character's politics mean for her character, Hannah.
Why make him a Republican?
We liked the idea of a Republican entering their universe. And Hannah doesn’t really have a clear sense of why you shouldn’t date a Republican; it’s kind of just like the same reason why you shouldn’t date a Nazi: You just shouldn’t.
When the interviewer follows up on that phrase, Dunham clarifies that while she is progressive, she does not have the same blanket "ignorance" she is satirizing through her character.
Wait, so your position is that you shouldn’t date a Republican?
My personal position is that you should date anyone you want so long as they treat you respectfully and share your value system. So it might be hard for me to date someone who was against gay marriage and abortion rights — I don’t think I would be attracted to them — but I don’t have any personal problem with dating a Republican. I do think that Hannah has this reverse ignorance where she’s like,If they’re Republican, get them out of my airspace, and that was a fun thought to explore.
Last year, Dunham cut an ad for Barack Obama's re-election campaign, titled "My First Time," comparing a vote for the incumbent President to losing one's virginity.
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Quite sad that ladies like her are missing out on all the masculinity but getting double the sexual diseases.
Because Republicans believe in strong central government, state control of private industry, redistributive taxation, adoration of a charismatic leader who believes he is a law unto himself, prohibition of privately owned firearms, atheism (or at least fealty to the secular state above personal conscience), and a cradle to grave social welfare scheme which requires giving up one's personal liberties?
Oh wait. That's the OTHER guys
“The full name of Adolf Hitler’s party was Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers’ Party).
The acronym Nazi was formed from the first two syllables of the German pronunciation of the word “national” (na-tsi-o-nal).”
BINGO
The republicans need to say this over and over because they are in no way NAZIES they are morons....
Hollywood is infiltrated with communists, and is nothing more than a propaganda ministry for the White House and Democrats in Congress.
Republicans should take a lesson and start fighting back. I am sick and tired of being called a Nazi. The socialists in Hollywood and the democrats ARE!
Remember what the word ‘NAZI’ stands for- The National Socialist party of Germany.
she met on the Internet.
Simply cannot wait for the 2nd season of that show to tank.
Now that this pig thinks she is hot stuff, she will blow off the show while she is flaunting herself everwhere and cause people that tuned in just to see 4 airheads get naked and screw to move on to something even more vapid.
She will be left making crappy indie films on the internet.
At least a Republican guy would have a job.
My response would be:
“Be a real women and try to protect yourself with a rape whistle while you fiddle with your iPhone to launch the phone keypad so you can call 911 who will be there in 15 minutes so they can clean up what is left of you.
Otherwise shut up, because you arent being paid to talk.”
Blixie Chix treatment is needed.
Remember how lipton dropped those usless women. Her carreer just ended before it started.
Oddly enough the “guy” her character on that show of hers is infatuated with doesnt work, and gets money from his grandmother.
He is also a pervert.
Never heard of her or the show. After doing a search, still no idea who she is.
I wonder if she is a vegetarian non-smoker like Adolf.
No, Lena Dunham did not call Republicans Nazis, or “This Is Why We Lose.”
According to a number of people who I am shocked still have full heads of hair given that they spend a great majority of their time attempting to pull it out by the roots in fits of faux outrage, the writer, director and lead of HBO’s “hipster Sex and the City” comedrama, Girls, Lena Dunham thinks that all Republicans are Nazis and cannot understand for a second why anyone with half a brain would date one, especially one that happened to also be a minority.Now, Hollywood does have this ignorant streak about them, and it sort of flows into every aspect of the entertainment operation, leading people within the little inner circle of A-listers to believe things that are otherwise obviously false to the normal human population: namely that Sarah Palin jokes are still funny five years later, and that Ben Affleck, as a director, can somehow compete with Katheryn Bigelow and Quentin Tarantino.
But people. People. Let’s think critically about this, shall we? Here’s what Lena Dunham actually said in her interview with the NYC mag, Vulture:
I want to start with the fourth scene of the entire season, which is you, topless …
… on top of Donald Glover.Having sex.
Yes.…
Why make him a Republican?
We liked the idea of a Republican entering their universe. And Hannah doesn’t really have a clear sense of why you shouldn’t date a Republican; it’s kind of just like the same reason why you shouldn’t date a Nazi: You just shouldn’t.Wait, so your position is that you shouldn’t date a Republican?
My personal position is that you should date anyone you want so long as they treat you respectfully and share your value system. So it might be hard for me to date someone who was against gay marriage and abortion rights — I don’t think I would be attracted to them — but I don’t have any personal problem with dating a Republican. I do think that Hannah has this reverse ignorance where she’s like, If they’re Republican, get them out of my airspace, and that was a fun thought to explore.Okay, what I got from that exchange was that Lena Dunham thought it might be an interesting idea to explore a “reverse ignorance” that certain stereotypical single females have against the possibility of dating a Republican. To the character, the decision to date a Republican is as black and white as a potential decision to date a Nazi, it’s just not done. And here’s this guy, who she likes, who happens to be a Republican, and Girls is going to take the opportunity to explore an integral liberal bias.
Look, this wouldn’t be such a big deal if this weren’t demonstrative of the wrongheaded, knee-jerk conservative approach to culture. Is Lena Dunham’s show basically a kind of hipster fantasy where she creates characters who have the miserable lives that a bunch of urban trust-fund French Experimental Poetry grad students imagine they have, so that the resultant faux-ennui will further inform their parent-paid-for thesis, and quickly enough before the same family revokes the housing allowance for their 1500-square-foot Williamsburg artist loft? Sure. In her acceptance speech last night at the Golden Globes, Dunham, who is famously the daughter of a successful painter of “oversexualized pop art” and a well-known photographer who created “disquieting domestic tableaux” with dolls, repeatedly reiterated that her work is informed by a horrific childhood spent at expensive New York private schools and summer camps, where she struggled to maintain the integrity of her psyche amid the horrors of life as the kid of upper-middle-class urban artists. The whole thing is bizarre and self-fellating. But it’s also self-referential. The joke here isn’t that Donald Glover (who is adorable) is evil. But that Hannah, Dunham’s character, thinks he’s evil and has to handle the internal conflict.
Its shows like this and like Portlandia, a farce co-created by Fred Armisen poking fun at entrenched liberal hipster culture in Portland, which show a distinct chasm between the cultural approach by liberals and the cultural approach by conservatives. Liberals try to inject humor, self-parody and subtle themes into material that is, by itself, interesting, well-written and entertaining. Girls is really no exception. And the foment their hold on the audience by creating projects that have an independent appeal. Conservatives seem to spend their time handing the movement’s creative reins off to one of two groups: evangelical Christian musicians and filmmakers whose ham-fisted products are nothing short of horrendous, and sixty-year-old white men who spend their time writing essays about how Hollywood should just get off their damned lawn, even when the “liberally biased television program” they’re bemoaning takes a moment to explore a theme that they themselves visit time and again.
Conservatives and libertarians cannot avoid culture, nor can they afford to pounce on every perceived slight with church lady outrage. Making inroads into the collective consciousness means embracing trends and using them, having a sense of humor about ourselves and our approach, and taking to heart that the core value of entertainment is to entertain. Will conservatives ever be among the recognized and revered? Maybe not. But if the track record of tangentially conservative-focused enterprises (like, for example the Blue Collar Comedy Tour) has taught us anything, they will be rich. Which means they’ll be powerful.
I mean, take a second to think about it. Bretibart might reach a million visitors a month. TMZ does that in less than three days. And then you wonder why I spend my time watching reality television while everyone else is watching Bill O’Reilly pop a neck vein.
Perhaps a “wit” would, but not a “half-wit”.
Just another oxygen pirate........
Only way I’m dating her is if I’m a weeklong bender, struck blind from a sudden case of diabetes and in a coma.
Even then, she would be a 1/2 night stand because she is coyote ugly and I’d chew my arm off to get out of her clutch.
Babe, if your life were in danger and it took a gun to save you I’m pretty certain you entertain that man for an evening and be grateful for it.
Bonjour ....
LOL
That commercial cracks me up.
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