Lena Dunham — admitted child molester, flip-flop wearer, anti-Asian bigot, and creator of a show called ‘Girls’ — has found herself in a second racial flap this holiday weekend. Fresh off a controversy stemming from a resurfaced tweet from 2011 demeaning the masculinity of Asian men, Dunham is now in hot water for comments she made about New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr.
Mr. Beckham was dragged into Dunham’s web of narcissism after he had the misfortune of being seated with her at the Met Gala recently. She told the story of sitting with Mr. Beckham in a recent edition of her Lenny Letter.
Here’s the passage in question:
I was sitting next to Odell Beckham Jr., and it was so amazing because it was like he looked at me and he determined I was not the shape of a woman by his standards. He was like, “That’s a marshmallow. That’s a child. That’s a dog.” It wasn’t mean—he just seemed confused.
The vibe was very much like, “Do I want to fuck it? Is it wearing a … yep, it’s wearing a tuxedo. I’m going to go back to my cell phone.” It was like we were forced to be together, and he literally was scrolling Instagram rather than have to look at a woman in a bow tie. I was like, “This should be called the Metropolitan Museum of Getting Rejected by Athletes.”
Riveting stuff.
Anyway, Dunham quickly came under fire for using Mr. Beckham as a prop in her story, for assuming he somehow should pay sexual attention to her, and for what some consider a long history of hyper-sexualizing black men.
So, of course, with her Social Justice Warrior Badge on the line, Dunham had to do something.
She apologized Saturday for her narcissism in an overwrought, narcissistic Instagram post, which she (narcissistically) duplicated on Twitter:
https://t.co/P3XMywtlGa pic.twitter.com/ye2WFyVOYd
— Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) September 3, 2016
The Lenny Letter piece also contained a hyper-sexualized comment about “attempt[ing] to grind my ass on Michael B. Jordan” — which has apparently since been excised. (Mr. Jordan is African America.)
For that comment, however, Dunham is apparently not sorry:
ps I'll try and dance myself onto @michaelb4jordan if I have the chance, even when I'm a married grandma. I'm a red blooded str8 woman!
— Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) September 2, 2016
Talk about cis, white privilege… Have a good Labor Day, Lena!
