For making an entire generation of females think it is OK to dress like you found a sheet from when you were 7 and made a dress out of it with a bow! To show up in public unshowered with greasy unbrushed hair! exposing your mega flabby ugly tatooed arms and dress with less and less clothing exposing your full out gut , all of this under the pretense that you should be proud of yourself no matter what you look like, and making an effort to stay in shape and dress well, isnt cool! I will then take the "uncool" girl everyday of the week!

And by the way, I think all these females work at Whole Foods!

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

How dare you ... her show is 'the height of female self-expression' and she's the 'queen of comedy'.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

BF,
I saw her on some talk show. (Jay or Conan) She was ignorant and a real bitch.
Of course Hollywood embraces that shit,until they get bored and throw her to the curb.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

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Yeah, I don't think she realizes that she's just the latest Hollywood fad. She'll be found dead w/ 4 heroin needles in her arm by 2017.

Neither she nor her show are really as awful as they're made out to be. One thing that is interesting is that for all the talk about being progressive and taking a stand against fat-shaming, all the men with their clothes off on camera seem to be in pretty good shape, no homo.

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Havent seen much of it this season, as it is just old and for some reason the whole concept of the show seems really dumb after "True D"...not sure what is so progressive...isnt this Season 3 of the same shit?

What seems to be ironic is that it is playing off the insecurities of young women

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

I've learned that the key to not freaking out over this show is to contextualize the principal characters as terrible people, à la such shows as Mad Men or Breaking Bad. When you realize that they're not brave feminist warriors but just contemptibly self-absorbed trust fund babies traipsing around the city like it's an amusement park, it's a lot easier to appreciate. And maybe the idea that women on TV can be awful the way men on TV are awful is the real lesson about gender equality.

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dont think anyone is really "freaking out" and if I need to ever create a mindset to ever watch a TV show, I am probably never going to watch that show.

Your own show prep seems to be unique to your viewing time.

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

The problem is they are both awful and uninteresting.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

There was a lot of freaking out when the show debuted, and you're not exactly keeping your cool yourself in starting this thread.

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I am not comfortable in curious' tv selections

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

And don't forget that she was dubbed "The Speaker of a Generation"

She is bad and not all that "smart," and the show is bad.

Case motherfucking closed.

I don't have HBO or Showtime, so I'll just have to ride out this show's grip on the collective consciousness a la Game of Thrones.

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I don't remember half the time if I'm hiding or I'm lost

She's not a complete idiot and the show is mediocre. Faint praise.

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i don't see that kind of self awareness coming from lena dunham.

Maybe not, but I'm not gonna be the one going "get that fat bitch off my TV." Anyway, cool spring 2012 thread. So Bulls over the Sixers in 4, right?

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Indeed it is.

i get that; i personally don't really give a shit about her or her show and i don't have HBO anyway. i do think that she is a flavor of the week and she ought to enjoy it...because she most likely will be a one trick pony. she's appealing to exactly the right crowd right now...but it'll grow old.

lolmissedthisedit. wat?

I see the show eventually sputtering like an untied balloon in the air, she lies low for a while, then comes back with a new project and more learning experiences. I do feel like she's talented and savvy enough to stay in the game.

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Diablo Cody ii should take care of getting herself off tv.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

I thought we as a nation did the whole Lena Dunham outrage thing then. I remember it. I was reading the Gawker recaps. Seems a little passé now.

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in 2012? christ...that was a long time ago. life was good.

if you consider this thread even close to 'freaking out', not sure I want you as my crisis manager in the case of.......well..... anything.

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Not that many people watch the show even at its height

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

No one really watches Mad Men, either. All these shows are vastly overrepresented in the discourse and basically act as critical-acclaim loss leaders for their channels. In fact, it could even be argued that AMC is a loss leader unto itself, and that with the end of bundled cable channels, no one would pay the higher carriage fee for the standalone channel and it, and many other specialty cable channels, would die.

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It always has had a GREAT lead in....Boardwalk Empire and then True Detective, really shows they know the show cant stand by itself when they launched a new show and still kept it Number 2....

And I dont care that all the cast members are related to someone famous, usually never changes my view of a show or movie, except in the case of Ben Stiller, who sucks to high heaven and has ruined more decent movies than I can ever count in my life.

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

It's this generation's Miami Vice. Stylized garbage.