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Millennial Idol Lena Dunham Talks Politics

The Planned Parenthood Action Fund has sent out an email message about the upcoming election from Lena Dunham, creator and star of Girls, author of Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s Learned, and representative Twenty-First-Century Young American Female. Indeed, a recent New York Timesprofile termed her book “a primer for millennial women negotiating the path to adulthood,” so we should examine her words closely when she drifts away from the youth habit of talking about her life and shifts to politics. Continue Reading »

Don’t Ask Me How I Got This

My high-powered lawyers are on stand-by in case things go beyond the denial strategy, but here goes, a Pomocon exclusive: Lena Dunham: Well, the thing I mentioned yesterday is actually much further along than that. Sally’s [ Ms. Dunham’s agent ] been emailing me about her negotiations . . . . Continue Reading »

He Talks to Us Like Children

And, his advertisements are even more insulting. C.J. Box at Ricochet discovers an Obama ad by Lena Dunham of GIRLS fame , which equates a young woman’s first time voting for a presidential candidate with her first time having, well, you know what. Don’t you want your first time to be . . . . Continue Reading »

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