Here’s an overview of Lena Dunham’s troubled history with feminism and race. For many, her statement on Perrineau is a last straw of sorts, and Clemmons’s allegations about her past are all too believable. Since 2012, when Girls first catapulted Dunham into her current cultural status as a walking think piece topic, she has been plagued by accusations of fake feminism, white feminism, and outright racism. Her reputation has most likely taken a permanent hit.Īnd that’s because this controversy is not an isolated incident. “She cannot have our words if she cannot respect us,” Clemmons wrote, going on to add that she knew Dunham in college and believed her to have a history of racism.ĭunham has since apologized for her statement, but the damage is already done. In response, writer Zinzi Clemmons declared that she would no longer be writing for Dunham’s email newsletter, Lenny Letter, and encouraged other women of color to do the same. To make matters worse, Perrineau is a woman of color, and Dunham is a powerful, wealthy white feminist using her position to discredit Perrineau’s allegations. Things women don't lie about: rape.- Lena Dunham August 4, 2017 Things women do lie about: what they ate for lunch. She was apparently willing to publicly state that it’s terrible when people refuse to believe that their friends and colleagues might be capable of hurting women, but if it’s her friend and colleague in question, then everyone should just be cool. So Dunham’s defense of Miller looked like the worst kind of hypocrisy. In no uncertain terms, Dunham condemned “the response by the powers that be,” which she summarized as: “defend, question the women ferociously and take ages before letting go from the network” in “a move based less on his skill than on some ancient loyalty.” This, she concluded, was the “kind of behavior that normalizes this abuse of power.”
In fact, shortly after the first accusations surfaced against disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, she wrote an op-ed for the New York Times in which she discussed a director who had sexually harassed her. The structure of our society and legal system is so stacked against victims of sexual assault that believing the victims is a basic pillar of feminism: If we live in a world where the standard response to sexual assault is to find a way to demonstrate that the victim was somehow asking for it, the basic argument goes, the least feminists can do is tip the balance the other way by giving victims their support as a default.Īs a vocal feminist and someone who has made allegations of sexual assault herself, Dunham knows the importance of believing women as a celebrity who has made feminism part of her brand, she has profited from taking the stance that one should believe women.
“I believe in a lot of things but the first tenet of my politics is to hold up the people who have held me up, who have filled my world with love,” Dunham added on Twitter.įor a self-proclaimed feminist, Dunham’s actions were not a good look, to say the least. “While our first instinct is to listen to every woman's story,” they said, “our insider knowledge of Murray's situation makes us confident that sadly this accusation is one of the 3 percent of assault cases that are misreported every year.” In response, Dunham and her Girls co-showrunner Jenni Konner sent a statement to the Hollywood Reporter defending Miller. On November 17, the Wrap reported that actress Aurora Perrineau had filed sexual assault charges against former Girls writer Murray Miller, saying that he had raped her in 2012, when she was 17 years old.
This time, it’s for comments she made in defense of a man accused of sexual assault. Of the leads/co leads, only 49 percent were Latina which equates to only 17 women, the study found.In news that should astonish no one, people are angry with Lena Dunham again.
Latinx representation in Hollywood is notoriously limited with a study released earlier this year that only 3 percent of the 100 top-selling films featured Latinx actors in lead roles from 2007 through 2018. “So I make it very clear that I’m not, and I normally don’t get the job, but I think it’s important for everyone to have representation and you shouldn’t be taking representation from someone else.” “So I get Latina a lot, which, obviously I’m not going to take on a role of a Latina woman, because I’m not Latina and that’s not the right thing to do,” she said.
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