In a week when Jerry Lewis told the world that female comedy “bothers [him]”, two tales of fightback – of a sort. Girls creator Lena Dunham has criticised news of a pornographic parody movie of her hit HBO comedy. “Most TV shows have been turned into gross and weird porn parodies,” the Splitsider website tells us, but Dunham isn’t prepared to shrug this one off. “Girls is, at its core, a feminist action while [the XXX film’s producer] Hustler is a company that markets and monetises a male’s idea of female sexuality,” wrote Dunham. And also, “a big reason I engage in (simulated) on-screen sex [in Girls] is to counteract a skewed idea of that act created by the proliferation of porn.”
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“Girls is, at its core, a feminist action” — not entertainment, a feminist “action.”
Girls exists. Therefore a porn of it exists. Get over yourself Lena Dunham sex.com blog
Great. Now I can’t just watch “Girls” and look for meaning beyond millenial navel-gazing. Hearing Dunham call it a feminist ‘action’ is delusional self-indulgence. Season 2 sucked anyway.
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[…] One year ago, when Lena Dunham learned that her HBO hit Girls had been parodied in a porn titled This Ain’t Girls XXX, she made no secret of her strong feeling that imitation isn’t always the sincerest form of flattery. […]
[…] One year ago, when Lena Dunham learned that her HBO hit Girls had been parodied in a porn titled This Ain’t Girls XXX, she made no secret of her strong feeling that imitation isn’t always the sincerest form of flattery. […]