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Kevin D. Williamson, a columnist for the conservative-leaning magazine National Review,
accused
Lena Dunham this weekend of admitting to sexual abuse in her new memoir Not That Kind of Girl.
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Williamson points to a passage in the memoir where Dunham details how she sexually experimented with her little sister, Grace. Williamson also calls Dunham’s parents child abusers.
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.
3.Truth Revolt, a blog run by Conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro, published “Lena Dunham Describes Sexually Abusing Her Little Sister,” a follow-up piece to the
National Review’s. The author Bradford Thomas writes:
In one particularly unsettling passage, Dunham experimented with her six-year younger sister’s vagina. “This was within the spectrum of things I did,” she writes.
In the collection of nonfiction personal accounts, Dunham describes using her little sister at times essentially as a sexual outlet, bribing her to kiss her for prolonged periods and even masturbating while she is in the bed beside her.
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Here’s a photo of Dunham’s passage where she refers to herself as a “sexual predator.”
Wow. Thats pretty disturbing. Sure, kids do weird stuff. But a 7 year old manipulating, masturbating around, and touching the genitals of a toddler is probably a sign of a need for some serious counseling.
I'm not sure why she doesn't realize it was wrong. If it was a boy this wouldn't even be a question. I think people would be more understanding if she admitted it was wrong and weird.
Rofl what a trunk of guilt you must carry around with you to hold every indecency done as a 7 year old with you into adulthood. Hold the 7 year old accountable, take her to court. But for Lena Dunham to put it in a memoir imo shows she does feel accountable and is seeking atonement. So let her have her atonement at whatever expense to her image it comes at.
I think her actions are disturbing to begin with, but then you add the fact that she felt the need to put it in her memoir. She could choose anything from her life and she puts that in.
I think this is the most astute comment. Lots of kids 'play doctor' and do weird things. I don't think that it's sexual abuse because I don't think most kids really understand sex or sexual urges. Like I really don't think she was touching her sister for pleasure or pleasure's sake - I think it was just curiousness about how the body works. But with that said, you grow up and should realize that while it happened, it wasn't right and you shouldn't talk or glorify and certainly shouldn't defend it. It was wrong but I don't think it's malicious. But talking about it years later is kind of sick and weird. Publishing it in a public forum is just horrible.
So, her having what she described as a consensual though drunken sexual encounter is rape and we should all feel bad for her, but her fingering a toddler is not molestation and we should congratulate her?
This is honestly one of the more disturbing things I've read. Is she doing this to be "cool"??? She's taking the awkward cool girl thing WAY too far. She should be arrested. What a double standard! !! If this was a man writing this he'd be UNDER the jail
So much for that feminism she loves to push down everyone's throat. Real feminism means you want women to be treated exactly like men. Well CLINK CLINK darling.
Wait, it's not molestation if it's not sexually gratifying? This changes everything. So, what happened to the little sister is something less than molestation then?
Golly! Sometimes I think I understand the world, and sometimes I don't!
Yeah, a small horrible part of me is thinking that too. I would have loved to get behind her quirkiness and confidence and all that but...I never really understood her. Something about her always rubbed me the wrong way.
Alexis Salcido People like her because she says the things most women can't say. I have been affected by sexism every day of my life and I'm assuming you have at some point . thats why people like her because its 2014 and she is a voice for a rising demographic
A seven year old doesn't even know what sex IS. They don't know that any of what she did was wrong. People do stuff when they're a kid that is freakin' weird to them when they're grown up. They eat bugs, they play with their own poo, and yes, some of them touch themselves or others in their 'naughty spots'. That doesn't make them anything wrong, it just means they're human.
I mean, if she'd kept doing it once she was old enough to know better, it'd be a different matter. But she didn't.
Honestly, the pedophiliaphobia is getting insane these days. People seem to think kids are some sort of magical different species of pure chase angelness that magically becomes disgusting teenagers in a poof of horomones. What's next? Putting kids on the sexual abuser list for 'playing doctor'? Chopping off their hands for touching themselves? Good Lord, how can this many stupid people exist?
What if a 7 year old BOY did this? Wouldnt people be calling him a sexual abuser? Or would that be just being curious too? I think that shows early sings of a weird sexual behavior, boy or girl, i would be really worried if my kid did something like this.
I think the curiosity is very normal, boy or girl. HOWEVER: when I was little I was taught that there are certain parts that no one should touch, and it was pretty obvious to me that I wasn't supposed to touch them on anyone else either.
Kevann Carter exactly! It's not like she was 3 when she was doing this she was 7! I have 3 kids and all of them by that age know that certain areas are not ok to touch on other people.
Kevann Carter THIS. THIS POINT is being missed. I was also taught that touching other people's private places was TOTALLY NOT OK, family or not family. Since birth, this was a message I was taught. And it is the MOST IMPORTANT message. This kind of lesson is the baseline for teaching consent. If consent surrounding body parts was not directly taught to Lena Dunham, this is her parents responsibility. If consent WAS taught and ignored...well let's just say this is messy business and I'm suprised its being received without the realization that this is messy business.
I was seven once and I was always curious about my friends genitals. But never touched them or spread their genitals just to know if they looked like mine. That's disturbing. That's not okay. She used the words 'sexual predator' what does she want to be called? A curious child? But of course, she calls herself a feminist and is obsessed with abortion so that's okay.
If I was her sister and she didn't ask for permission to write this, I would take her down. Just because she wants to share her childhood doesn't mean her sister might want hers shared.
But from my limited understanding of this family, I feel like the sister doesn't have the dignity to mind.
Jose Morales If she didn't remember then I hope Lena at least had the courtesy to tell her beforehand. I hate to find out embarrassing stuff about myself by reading a nationally published book.
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