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Has Lena Dunham changed? Have we?

Vox·Constance Grady·about 1 month ago
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Lena Dunham, the subject of a thousand 2010s think pieces about whether or not she is problematic, has re-emerged from behind the curtain with her new memoir, Famesick . But this time around, the think pieces look different. Some of them are mea culpas addressed to Dunham. “We owe Lena Dunham an apology,” declared Rachel Simon in a story for MS Now . The apology came with a caveat: “Dunham is, and always has been, a flawed figure. But she never deserved our hatred, nor the expectations placed on her to get everything right.” “I was wrong about Lena Dunham,” proclaimed Sonia Soraiya at Slate . Soraiya argues that Dunham’s nervy, uncomfortable magnum opus Girls “activated” her own self-loathing, and that she and other critics of the era took it out on Dunham. “I was one of Lena Dunham’s haters. I want to say I’m sorry,” wrote Dave Schilling at The Guardian .…

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