It’s official. Lena Dunham sinks to a new level of ew.
If you’re new here and unfamiliar with Lena Dunham, let me introduce you. Dunham is Hollywood’s feminist darling. She’s considered a rape role model, despite falsely accusing a man of raping her and letting the lie go on long enough to destroy the innocent fella’s life. She’s obsessed with taking her clothes off and posting nakey pictures on the internet, but she also stays off Twitter because it’s not a safe space and people are mean to her. She doesn’t like being called “sweetheart,” “honey,” or “babe” because those names are rooted in gender and therefore sexist. She’s Hillary Clinton’s #1 fan and considers all negative media coverage of the Queen “rabidly sexist.” In her spare time, she daydreams of punching pro-lifers in the face and runs Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton’s Instagram account.
She also has a failed show on HBO called Girls. Nobody watches it, yet they keep renewing it. But they have hope. Maybe they need to show more skin? More raunchy jokes? Wait. I KNOW. Maybe everyone will start watching if Lena Dunham’s character flashes her vagina! That should do it.
They seriously went with that.
On Sunday, HBO aired the Girls episode “Hello Kitty,” and it featured Dunham’s character Hannah, who is a teacher, meeting with her school’s principal to hear the complaints “lodged against her.” She responds by spreading her legs and showing her vagina. Because that’s how Actual Adults react during tense situations.
“Hannah pulling a Basic Instinct is one of the strangest things we’ve ever written on the show,” Dunahm said. “It came out in the writers’ room and we kept thinking it would somehow disappear, and then — lo and behold — it was still in the script the day that I had to open my legs on set.”
Oddly enough, Dunham said she was embarrassed to show her vagina to everyone, but not for the reason you might think. I’ll just let her explain, because EW.
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I can’t stand hearing her say “Hannah.” (That’s actually my first name. And I can’t STAND hearing Lena Dunham say it. It’s unbearable.)
But there you have it. Lena Dunham is now flashing her entire vagina on the small screen, because…female empowerment? I don’t know. Ask Hillary Clinton. She’s Dunham’s BFF.