1:11 pm - 08/09/2012
Lena Dunham, creator and star of HBO's Girls posts a photo of herself on twitter wearing a muslim veil (hijab) with the caption "I had a real goth/fundamentalist attitude when I woke up from my nap"
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Lena Dunham Wears Muslim Veil, Calls Herself A "Fundamentalist".....
Lena Dunham, creator and star of HBO's Girls posts a photo of herself on twitter wearing a muslim veil (hijab) with the caption "I had a real goth/fundamentalist attitude when I woke up from my nap"
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Mods, please approve this. This type of ridiculous bigotry and disrespect should be discussed.
and i can list thousands of shows that dont cast/show color. it sucks but you have to realize if the writer/creator is white then they are not going to write something they dont know. this is a show in its first season and its popularity promises growth. not every show starts out with a beautifully diverse 10 person writing crew, you need to calm down.
It's her show, she can write about whatever she wants, but my issue with her is that she cops out of explaining the lack of minorities all the time. Either admit to the fact that you don't want to be bothered to write for minorities or do what she does, which is ambiguously correct her previous statements or state that the lack of minorities is something "she'll look into" while tiptoeing around the issue altogether.
Also, as a writer myself, that excuse is such incredible bullshit. How many male writers write for female characters all the time? How many white people write non-white characters? As a writer, you are constantly writing about experiences and people you don't know. That's the whole point of fiction. You don't have to have a medical degree to write for a medical drama. It's not hard writing for minorities. They're human. Write them the same way you write anyone else. Unless the plot material for an episode calls for you to be cross-culturally sensitive, than there's no need to worry about writing about some person you don't know. You're writing a character, not a lifestyle or documentary piece. Ethnicity and race are irrelevant to the universal feeling of being a college student, displaced in the world, with all the boy and friend troubles we all have in our twenties. The whole 'I can't write about what I don't know' and all variant excuses are as hackneyed as they are disproven. In the case of Lena, admit you don't want to include minorities or find a better excuse. Hiding behind not being able to write about what you don't know isn't valid, it just means you're bad at writing.
Edited at 2012-08-09 11:26 pm (UTC)