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12:46am December 13, 2014

➸ The right’s Lena Dunham delusion: Anger, misogyny and the dangers of business as usual

“Women, it seems, if they are to speak at all about rape (or the experiences of violation that we do not give that name to), must follow a very narrow set of parameters. Their accounts must be marketable, consumable. Never disruptive. A ‘good’ sexual assault story involves: a stranger, a woman held at knifepoint, immediate action to alert law enforcement, a seamless police response, an emotional but ultimately cathartic courtroom scene, a prison sentence. A ‘bad’ sexual assault story involves: everything else.”
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  8. sheldrakus said: I know one shouldn’t read the comments, but I kept going because I kept thinking ‘surely they can’t all be this vile and toxic?’ They were. Actually slightly upsetting.
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    Why are they using Lena Dunham to discuss about this? Talk about the wrong person to choose. The sexual assault she...
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    ^^^ Somehow it’s always the white, young, conventionally pretty, generally upper class girl whose conventional story...
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