She’s called other people out for using misogynistic words,but there is slut-shaming and female-bashing speech littered through Dunham’s own creation. It needs to stop[br]In January, just before the penultimate season of HBO’s Girls aired, or its creator and star Lena Dunham made headlines by criticising the media’s spend of gendered” and “rabidly sexist” language in coverage of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. In a Variety interview,Dunham said: “Whether it’s the attacks on her personal life or the adjectives used to relate her clothing, we have to do a full re-examination, and like I literally want to fabricate (to make up, invent) a list that we hand to media outlets that says like ‘These are the words you can’t spend when describing a female candidate ...’.” She mentions: “shrill”,“inaccessible”, “difficult”, and “frumpy and “plastic”.
I agree with Dunham that there is a lot of sexist talk that has no plot in a civilised discussion of Clinton or any other female candidate. I wonder,though, why Dunham doesn’t expand this standpoint to the dialogue in her own television show?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com