lena dunham
Η Κόρη του Barack Obama «Αφήνει» τον Λευκό Οίκο για το Hollywood;
Kαι τέσσερα ακόμα θέματα και ειδήσεις που δεν θα διαβάσεις πουθενά αλλού.
Οι Τηλεοπτικές Σειρές που Μισούμε Αλλά μας Έμαθαν Καλή Μουσική
Τα «Gossip Girl», «The O.C.» και «Girls» δεν μπορείς να τα δεις, αλλά σίγουρα μπορείς να τα ακούσεις.
Classism
Fun fact: when you don’t know what you’re talking about, you’re probably talking about class. I’d say half of what seems to be racist and sexist and xenophobic is classist and allowed to be because nobody gets into it, and nobody wants to. Classism in...
The Dunham Rule
Last week I invented “Swift-boating” to describe the undue overattention and bushfire criticism that a young, pretty woman who says stuff (“says stuff”) inevitably experiences. This week I’d like to submit the “Dunham rule” as a related phenomenon, in...
Seven Dark Horse Candidates for Pope
Everyone agrees that the next pope, like pretty much every pope in history, will be an old guy who is already a high-ranking member of the Church, but it doesn’t have to be. The new pope doesn't even have to be ordained, technically, and ain't no rule...
How Many Ways Did the Oscars Offend Everyone?
Like all major events where anyone talks for more than half an hour, the Academy Awards were a chance for people to get extremely angry about what others were saying and doing. Here is an incomplete list of the events that happened during the Oscars...
The Relative Transgressions of 'Girls'
The discussion around Lena Dunham’s body (her body!) last week after an episode of 'Girls' where she spends a couple of days having sex with Patrick Wilson—who I find creepy and unappealing but who the Man Internet decided was waaaay too hot for Dunham...
Let's All Stop Complaining About High School
“Peaked in high school” is a sound concept: a lot of people do. (A lot, a lot, a lot.) The adult lives of many high school mob bosses are just sad as all fuck, not sad like “I’m judging you for your social affiliations and entertainment choices” sad...
Self-Imposed Chocolate Poisoning
OK you guys this is going to be a tough read because I did it while I was bent over at the waist—or like between being bent over, but not for long because sitting up is real, real hard—because I ate some chocolate really quickly before a meeting, and...
Witness the Whiteness
America isn’t so white. But because the collective consciousness moves as fast and elegantly as you do jogging in a hot tub following diazepam and margaritas, whiteness remains understood as this abstract, almost-imaginary but deeply embedded dominant...
Girls Is Racist; Everything Is Racist; Everything Is the Worst; Girls Is Still the Best
Calling Girls racist is a problem for everybody because Girls is racist insofar as everything on TV is racist, and insofar as everyone is racist.