"And then I am catapulted back to what it is that bothers me so deeply about Dunham. It is absurd and frankly racist that the literary world's axis is now set to spin based on whatever utterances are made by a 20-something white woman who grew up in wealth, likes to get naked and have sex on TV and call it feminism, and who is almost entirely exclusionary on the subject of race... Rae is black; Dunham is white—and black artists, particularly black women artists (see: Shonda Rhimes, Janelle Monae and Beyonce), are rarely afforded the luxury of being celebrated as individual artists. Entertainers, yes. Angry, sure. Afro-futurists, definitely. Feminists, occasionally. Individual artists, almost never."
Ya, I personally just can't with Girls.
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