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5:49 am - 12/27/2012

12 Things I Learned in 2012

by Lena Dunham


1. Self-love and self-loathing are constant, bickering bedfellows. If utilized correctly, both keep you moving forward.

2. There’s no way to sound smart in People magazine. But you will sound friendly!

3. Drake is not interested in you romantically or even sexually. :(

4. No one wants to hear your real opinion at the premiere.

5. Eating the bread at most events will make your table-mates quizzical and, ultimately, very jealous.

6. People will always find something in your work to argue with. Get used to being humbled, shutting out the noise, second-guessing yourself, and realizing that one out of six times those cretins are right.

7. Most meetings are about meetings, and if you have too many meetings about meetings you will get a very flu-ish feeling.

8. Uttering the words “Can I call you back? I’m just running into my facialist—Oh, hi, Terri!” does not assure your friends back home you haven’t changed a bit.

9. Being approached on the street is not actually such a burden, especially if the majority of your fans are gay males under 17 years of age.

10. It’s possible to feel like a creepy, pervy producer even if you are a 26-year-old girl.

11. Don’t listen to your friends who are worried you are getting too thin. They have not been at a Women in Film luncheon with you recently.

12. Hard work pays off. I am so annoyed at my father for being right about that.


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soba_kasu 27th-Dec-2012 05:41 pm (UTC)
also I know it's not popular, but it's a TV show thats supposed to mimic a real life group of friends. maybe this particular group of girls that the show is focussing on are all white. why is that so horrific?

yes everyone should be represented in the media but why is it so completely racist that these four girls are all caucasian? maybe she just wrote a story and didnt feel like united colours of bennetoning it and making one girl asian one girl latina one girl black because thats just as phony and sanitized.

why are four white chicks being friends on a TV show racist. maybe not the most diverse group of people, but far from racist. and if people think its racist they dont know what that word means.
poopanna 27th-Dec-2012 06:25 pm (UTC)
I don't even watch the show, but everyone ignores this super valid, realistic point for some reason.
homicidalslayer 27th-Dec-2012 06:51 pm (UTC)
I suspect the outrage would be quelled significantly were it not for the fact that the show is supposed to be set in Brooklyn yet even in the supporting cast/recurring characters there are practically zero POC, and the few that are there have very stereotypical roles.
skillfully 27th-Dec-2012 08:38 pm (UTC)
friends? seinfeld?
lakomka87 27th-Dec-2012 11:41 pm (UTC)
friends received critisism, nobody called the creators cunts, having punchable faces, telling them to die etc
skillfully 28th-Dec-2012 09:37 pm (UTC)
maybe i was too young to remember it getting any criticism. i watched tiny furniture last night (i haven't seen girls) and i think all the lena hate is mostly because she's ugly. sad but true.
lakomka87 28th-Dec-2012 09:45 pm (UTC)
it still gets called out on it sometimes. about looks-based hate -- i agree completely, i mean, the criticism is well deserved, but the ridiculous amount of hate definitely isn't
skillfully 28th-Dec-2012 10:05 pm (UTC)
i'm glad you got what i was saying bc i felt bad right after calling her ugly. but i mean, i feel her looks definitely have a lot to do with it. and her size. it's sad because if say, michael cera was doing the same thing nobody would be talking this way about him.
hera_bearrra 27th-Dec-2012 07:38 pm (UTC)
In that case, it shouldn't be titled something as generic as "Girls".

Or be set in NYC where the only POC you see in the pilot is a black homeless guy in the backdrop.

And this part is less her fault (although no one is really fighting it) but the fact that all these critics call the show "realistic" and say that Lena Dunham is the ~voice of her generation~ based on that one scene which was meant to be ironic
lovekrista 27th-Dec-2012 09:00 pm (UTC)
isn't the majority of the pilot her talking to her parents?
ponpiri 28th-Dec-2012 12:07 am (UTC)
Just like Seinfeld, there were hardly any peripheral characters who were POC. That's the main problem.
alchimie_amour 28th-Dec-2012 04:47 am (UTC)
no i agree. if she's insular so be it, just wait for a well written show with POC characters to come along like that akward black girl actress. i hear she has a development deal with shonda rhimes
seraphitta 6th-Jan-2013 11:06 pm (UTC)
This isn't really a valid point and you can pretty much use it for practically anything. All those films/tv shows where POCs are hugely underrepresented? Can we say that they simply HAPPENED to be about a bunch of white guys? I guess so, according to you.

Let's stop complaining then. Phew, glad you set us straight.
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