Kevin Williamson (@KevinNR) is a masterful journalist who knows a thing or two about effective storytelling. Sometimes, as a writer, you don’t want to be the one to connect the dots. Just say, “Oh, look, here’s a dot and there is another dot,” and let your readers form their own conclusions. And so, having undertaken to read Lena Dunham’s latest autobiographical opus — taking a bullet for the team there, Kev — Williamson describes Dunham’s depraved childhood habits:
Her father, Carroll Dunham, is a painter noted for his primitive brand of highbrow pornography, his canvases anchored by puffy neon-pink labia; her photographer mother filled the family home with nude pictures of herself, “legs spread defiantly.” Self-styled radicals from old money, they were not the sort of people inclined to enforce even the most lax of boundaries. And they were, in their daughter’s telling, enablers of some very disturbing behavior that would be considered child abuse in many jurisdictions — Lena Dunham’s sexual abuse, specifically, of her younger sister, Grace, the sort of thing that gets children taken away from non-millionaire families without Andover pedigrees and Manhattanite social connections. Dunham writes of casually masturbating while in bed next to her younger sister, of bribing her with “three pieces of candy if I could kiss her on the lips for five seconds . . . anything a sexual predator might do to woo a small suburban girl I was trying.” At one point, when her sister is a toddler, Lena Dunham pries open her vagina — “my curiosity got the best of me,” she offers, as though that were an explanation. “This was within the spectrum of things I did.”
That occurs in part one of the story, and then you read through part two of the story, until you get to part three of the story:
She sneers at “girls with boyfriends who looked like lesbians,” at a man guilty of “dressing vaguely like a middle-aged lesbian,” etc. “Lesbian” is Dunham’s shorthand for “awful.” On Girls, one of the characters scoffs that “dates are for lesbians,” and Dunham describes a childhood fear that she would become “the militant lesbian leader of a motorcycle gang,” but she also describes herself as “being in possession of a gay sister,” which fact she wields like a get-out-of-women’s-prison-free card against accusations of homophobia . . .
Notice the artfulness that Kevin Williamson has employed here: Early in the story, we learn that the degenerate young Dunham molested her sister as a child. Then, after reading several hundred more words, we are reminded, “Oh, by the way, that little girl Lena molested? She grew up to be a homosexual.” There is no need for Williamson even to suggest a correlation between these two facts. Anyone who has studied developmental psychology understands it.
Lena Dunham: Voice of a Perverted Generation!
Pervert @LenaDunham molested her sister, Grace, who is now a lesbian. http://t.co/rCd5LvAH4Y Just a coincidence, I'm sure. @KevinNR #tcot
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 30, 2014
It's not controversial to say @LenaDunham is a pervert, is it? http://t.co/rCd5LvAH4Y It's just a fact. @KevinNR #tcot
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 30, 2014
.@ARaised_Eyebrow "She needs help"? She needs PRISON. @LenaDunham is a sociopathic pervert, a menace to society. @KevinNR
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 30, 2014
Let’s see if anyone begins to distance themselves from this sexual offender.
Nice work as usual McCain.
After reading Williamson’s fine article people might want to take a peek into Dunham’s father’s obsessions (or not) by googling Carroll Dunham images.
Sort of explains, well, everything really.
if a boy had done those thing to his sister he would be branded a sex offender. Lena is a sex offender.
Hell no, they won’t. They’ll “celebrate” her “sexuality”, like there’s something mystical and spiritual about being a criminal pervert. These will be people wearing Che or Free Mumia tee shirts, or carrying little appetizer dogs in their purses.
She sure is. And I’m betting that people would be prying her vagina open in the women’s prison that ought to be her new home. Just the fact that she thinks this is all cool and funny means she ought to be horsewhipped immediately, followed by permanent incarceration due to being a psychotic menace.
Okay, I don’t see a reference for the age Lena Dunham was when this was occurring.
Bear in mind that children are both innocents and twisted little deviants all at the same time. It’s why they need actual parents: to help them sort that stuff out. It’s also why the law doesn’t prosecute them as adults. Tread carefully.
Having written that, I’d say that clearly Miss Dunham was deprived of actual parenting in her upbringing. I’ll go out on a limb and guess that the same applied to both of her parents.
Sure K-Bob, but that ain’t an excuse. She sure as hell knows right from wrong right now today, but exhibits no shame, no sorrow, no contrition for the way she’s behaved.
You’re right, it does pretty much explain everything. Plus, that’s not art. That’s crap. I’ve seen similar garbage sketched inside the notebook covers of degenerate 6th grade boys. Looks like Dunham’s dad never emotionally matured beyond the age of 10. And the mother is an enabler. They should all be in prison, probably.
Grace was born in 1992; Lena in 1986.
My guess is that the admitted behaviors constitute a small portion of the actual number of incidents.
Can a flapping gaping chasm be “pried open”?
Other than that, you are spot on. She is a gross pervert and her parents sound like sex offenders.
What has been seen cannot be unseen. Really ugly poorly executed crap.
All the fotos of Carroll Dunham, but one, the man doesn’t smile. Nothing but a seemingly permanent scowl on his mug. And in the one foto, he is smirking.
I’m calling bullshit on her biography I think she’s just auditioning for a recurring guest spot on ”Orange is the New Black”.
Yeah, I think she’s being to hard on her boyfriends. It take a lot of BTUs to heat an airplane hanger.
Oh man, you got that right. It’s not so much the colors, it’s the burning of my eyes!
I’m sure there’s stuff even. She won’t admit publicly. That’s the scary part.
Dunno about you, Bob, but I’m thinking “old enough to know better”.
‘Cause he has an evil spirit.
Just… wow!
Dunham is “disgusted” and “nauseated” by Woody Allen.
Really? Why?
Unpredictably, the Jessica Valenti at The Guardian who can clearly see the millions of KKK-like women-hating “angry white men” behind Gamegate wants “more” of Dunham.
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Also, I thought hell had no basement. I was wrong. That’s where bigots and perverts actually congratulate each other on their status’s ironical irony… ironical.
“We MADE it! Tee-hee-hee.”
And brought down Western civilization cuz the fork and pen are mightier than the misogyny… or something.
A culture of gender-fluidity will give her the Nobel Prize. Remember: their moral ethos is themselves, so… anything goes.
Let Jane Goodall take a leave of absence from studying chimpanzees and sort it all out, because much of this sounds like the behavior of monkeys someone taught to drive and button their shirts.
Both of my parents were alcoholics and my mother was bipolar, yet my childhood was a Norman Rockwell painting compared to Lena Dunham’s. In fact, my parents did a pretty good job with me–no molestation, no inappropriate sexualization at a tender age, no sense of entitlement. It just shows that good, old-fashioned dipsomania cannot hold a candle to liberalism.
Hell has a basement and a very large number of subbasements. Many of them will be discovered before Christ returns.
Are you kidding, she’s a celebrity, don’t you know? The left still loves Roman Polanski, even though he anally raped a 13 year old.
Remember, if the left didn’t have double standards, they’d have no standards at all.
Six freakin’ years. Methinks we’re talking child abuse here.
And use a typewriter.
Just because there have been a lot of planes parked in the hangar doesn’t mean that there were any 747s.
Didn’t Aretha Franklin sing about the Dunham family…”Chain of Fools”. I think the most disturbing part of the story is mommy dearest’s spread leg photos on the walls. What a dirtbag. Almost makes you feel sorry for Lena…almost.
“Hey, I don’t have ANY standards – how can I have double standards? hahahaha.”
i agree with K-Bob, DM, and RS on this. What was her age at the time? What she did as a child,mgrowing up in that environment, may be forgivable, but what is shocking is her current lack of remorse or conscience.
Memo To Self: Don’t google stuff based on comments at TOM during breakfast.
If Lena thought it was okay to do that stuff to her kid sister, you KNOW there was stuff being done to her. And given the “ahem” maturity of her parents, it’s not very surprising.
We get examples of such sociopaths that troll here on occasion. The most recent being Kalcen over at “The Gay Hate Machine.” They are narcissists with their own personal truth, which makes them moral relativists. Such people dominating the public culture places a civilization aboard a rocket sled on rails to the gates of hell.
Exactly. I did a bit of teaching work with kids, and when one of them exhibits sexual obsessions you KNOW something’s going on at home.
I forget which of his collections the remark was in, but PJ O’Rourke once wrote that to say a celebrity is a pervert, a drug addict, and degenerate is simply to have read their autobiography.
Good lord.
To which “hangar” are you two referring?
Yep. It’s why nine year old boys love the monkey exhibit at the zoo more than nearly anything else going on in the world.
Wow. I knew better than to inflict “curious” harm (or any other sort) on another person (or even animals), regardless of age, by at least age five. Same with the vast majority of kids I grew up with.
OTOH, we had twelve and thirteen year old boys in our neighborhood who thought stomping on toads was great fun. I’m betting both spent time in prison somewhere along the way.
OMG I just dared to google him. While I can’t say that I’m shocked, I can say that I am disgusted that all women are to him are gash-like vaginas. And all penises are knives. But then again when all your wife takes photos of is herself with her legs spread, I guess that’s to be expected. I can’t imagine any child growing up in that house would be normal in any way shape or form.
And I’m sorry, but a child that was EIGHT YEARS OLD when she essentially raped her two-year-old sister should be called what she is: A rapist who knows better. No wonder her sister became lesbian. The touch of a female is all she knows. I would haul in the parents as on charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor to boot. Sweet Jesus save us from people like this. This is not what it means to be “free” in America. This is selfishness for selfishness’ sake.
What’s the statute of limitations with regard to child sexual assault?
Yeah, it seems pathological, which would explain a lot of her behavior as an adult.
Yikes! I forgot about that.
Sort of gives a new spin on the choice of name for the ol’ “Piper Cub” dunnit?
That we know of.
Nice to see Amanda Marcotte’s only take away from Kevin Williamson’s article is that he’s resentful of people who live in Brooklyn, and not any of Dunham’s hideous behavior, and sense of entitlement. Amazing that feminists hate men so much that even when one of their own molest’s children, the “guy” is still the one who did something wrong.
She is undoubtedly responsible for her younger sister’s lesbianism. I know a young women who went through the same thing at the hands of her narcissistic older sister, and emerged a full out angry dyke.
I heard she was working on Planet of The Apes — The Musical
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwWK9le2CD8
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