Judd Apatow lap dog and star of HBO's children's series, Girls (What? It's called "Girls," it must be for kids!), Lena Dunham came under the second-least necessary fire on Twitter recently for her pre-adolescent sexual ineptitude.
Dunham, clearly a white, female CeeLo Green-like predator, first defended herself on Twitter, then released a more formal statement to the website of magazine Time, thus ensuring extra clicks to — and plenty of extra attention and online mentions of — a site owned by the parent company of HBO.
The purely political move served its purpose: Today on Twitter, everyone is talking about the just-announced sequel Toy Story 4 (admittedly, alleged sexual predatory actions will and always should be overshadowed by Pixar movie announcements).
Dunham's statement to Time is below. It's very possible, even likely, we made a host of changes to it...
I am dismayed over the recent interpretation of events described in my book "Not That Kind of Girl: But One Slightly More Icky."
First and foremost, I want to be very clear that I do not condone any kind of abuse under any circumstances. Not even if it's one of those "Real Housewives" people — who could use a swift kick in the ass for sure.
Childhood sexual abuse is a life-shattering event for so many, and I have been vocal about the rights of survivors. ... I am also aware that the comic use of the term “sexual predator” was insensitive, and I’m sorry for that as well. But, come on, when a 28-year-old woman makes a comment about being a 7-year-old sexual predator, that's totally funny, right? It's like the kind of funny where you don't really laugh, but you sort of quietly chortle, because there's absolutely no way that I was a predator at the age of seven, unless of course I was horribly twisted by my hippie parents in ways only the Manson family or Art Garfunkel could understand.
Keep in mind of course that, at the age of 28, my frontal lobe may still not be fully developed; I've always developed more slowly than my contemporaries (see: any interview with Jennifer Lawrence or Emma Watson, then watch me. It's sad, really.). I'm also only just now taking writing courses for the first time. As is the editor of my book, who really should have marked that passage. Like, seriously, right?!
As for my sibling, Grace, she is my best friend, and anything I have written about her has been published with her approval. Come next week, I'll be snipping off the zip ties around her wrists and ankles and giving her to the count of 100 to get as far away as she can. She'll have access to Twitter.
Yeah. That should clear it all up. Z!TV is glad to have done its part in support of Dunham (who, in all seriousness, we really do support on this...even tho' you couldn't make us watch her series Girls, not even if we were threatened and told we'd have to read Dunham's book).
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Image used for parody purposes. Credit: New York Magazine
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