Ok, when a seven year old does something like that, it’s NOT sexual abuse. Let’s just start with that.
In another passage, the actress recalled, “As [Grace] grew, I took to bribing her for her time and affection: one dollar in quarters if I could do her makeup like a ‘motorcycle chick.’ Three pieces of candy if I could kiss her on the lips for five seconds. Whatever she wanted to watch on TV if she would just ‘relax on me.’ Basically, anything a sexual predator might to do woo a small suburban girl I was trying. Maybe, I thought, she would be more willing to accept kisses if I wore the face mask my grandmother had for when she did her dialysis. (The answer was no.) What I really wanted, beyond affection, was to feel that she needed me, that she was helpless without her big sister leading her through the world.”
“I took perverse pleasure in delivering bad news to her—the death of our grandfather, a fire across the street—hoping that her fear would drive her into my arms, would make her trust me,” Lena confessed.
Dunham writes of casually masturbating while in bed next to her younger sister, of bribing her with “three pieces of candy if I could kiss her on the lips for five seconds . . . anything a sexual predator might do to woo a small suburban girl I was trying.” At one point, when her sister is a toddler, Lena Dunham pries open her vagina — “my curiosity got the best of me,” she offers, as though that were an explanation. “This was within the spectrum of things I did.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/391348/pathetic-privilege-kevin-d-williamson
She wasn’t seven. Her sister was. Lena was 13 at the time.
The book says she tried everything a child molester might try to mess with a kid with her little sister.
That is abuse.
Her sister was sexually abused, but a 7 year old as abuser is not something I think is criminal. Just a 7 year old in major need of help.
The fact that she writes about it as an adult as if it were somehow funny or interesting is VERY disturbing.