'Girls' Producers Defend Lena
Dunham's 'Random' Nudity
by John Nolte 10 Jan 2014
Even though no one but a handful
of elites watch HBO's
"Girls," it was renewed for a fourth low-rated season before its
third low-rated season even began. "Girls"
is obviously a precious thing to the elite, so precious that that asking of
question about the show's random nudity will send the producers into a
"rage spiral."
Entertainment Weekly reports that
at the Television Critics Association press tour a reporter was attacked as
"sexist" and "misogynist" for asking why the show's star, Lena Dunham, is seen nude so often and
for "no reason."
“I don’t get the purpose of all
the nudity on the show — by [Dunham] in particular," the reporter asked.
"I feel like I’m walking into a trap where you go, ‘Nobody complains about
all the nudity on Game of Thrones,’ but I get why they do it. They do it to be
salacious and titillate people. And your character is often nude at random
times for no reason.”
Executive producer Judd Apatow
lashed back, “That was a very clumsily stated question that’s offensive on its
face."
A defensive Dunham defended her
random nudity as an artistic choice and suggested the reporter seek
professional help, "[The nudity is] a realistic expression of what it’s
like to be alive. But I totally get it. If you’re not into me, that’s your problem
and you’re going to have to work that out with professionals.”
Another executive producer, Jenni
Konner, admitted the question put her into a "rage spiral", “I
literally was spacing out because I’m in such a rage spiral about that guy.”
The question was rude, but it was
neither sexist nor misogynist. If the reporter had a problem with female nudity
he would not have been okay with the soft-core porn in "Game of
Thrones."
The "ist" Dunham and her
defenders avoided was "lookist," because Lena Dunham is not a
physically attractive woman.
HBO
Quentin Schaffer
is the EVP for HBO, and governor for
the Roosevelt Institute.
Note: HBO Video is a
division of HBO.
Henry
W. McGee is the president for HBO
Video, and was a trustee at the Sundance
Institute.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Roosevelt Institute, the Sundance
Institute, and the Robin Hood
Foundation.
George
Soros is the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Brian Williams is
a director at the Robin Hood Foundation,
the anchor for the NBC Nightly News,
and his daughter is Allison Williams.
Pew Poll: Seven-in-Ten Americans Do Not Know Brian
Williams (Past Research)
Saturday, January 11, 2014
Allison Williams
is Brian Williams’s daughter, and an
actor in Girls.
Lena
Dunham is an actor & creator for Girls.
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