Usually Lena Dunham is out and about offending conservatives’ morals by saying she wished had an abortion and sensibilities by claiming sushi is cultural appropriation. But today Dunham decided to switch gears and vaguely offend oversensitive libs.
Dunham appeared on Howard Stern Monday morning and said she had been losing weight
“Donald Trump became president and I stopped being able to eat food,” she told Stern who had complimented her weight. “Everyone’s been asking like, ‘What have you been doing?’ And I’m like, ‘Try soul-crushing pain and devastation and hopelessness and you, too, will lose weight.’”
Some journalists in the media did not appreciate Dunham’s cavalier attitude toward the highly sensitive subject of losing weight.
Anxiety-induced weight loss is apparently beyond humor in the modern age. Someone page Louis CK and tell him to cut his tight five on anxiety-induced weight loss from the next special.
“An eating disorder is a deadly illness, not a political prop, @lenadunham, you unfathomably insensitive narcissist,” wrote another woman on Twitter.
Other woke writers appeared to disagree. One writer at the feminist blog Refinery29 supported Dunham for speaking out about her weight loss, but chided Stern for bringing up weight in the first place.
“Election-related stress is very real, as is disordered eating,” she wrote. “So while you might think your words are well-meaning, the reason behind someone’s weight loss might not be a happy one. Unless a friend brings up their weight on their own, it’s a good topic to avoid in conversation.”
So what’s the deal? Can Lena Dunham joke about losing a few pounds due to anxiety or is it haram in the social justice world? While the answer to this question is being hashed out online, I’ll be busy constructing a Rube Goldberg machine, which after a series of amusing maneuvers will end with a pistol shooting me in the shin so I that I have more important things to worry about than Lena Dunham’s weight.
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