I’m thinking Lena Dunham should just shut up

Last Wednesday Bill Cosby, 78 was charged and arrested for one of the 50 plus accusations of rape and sexual assault brought up against him. Cosby, cockeyed, gray and seemingly feeble walked in, paid his $1 million dollar bail and left.

Social media reacted with similar sentiment as myself, “finally”. A handful of celebrities including Lena Dunham and her mentor, Judd Apatow tweeted about the arrest.

Grateful that Bill Cosby’s criminal record will be marked forever, like the lives of the women he raped. They deserve justice and peace.

If I believed in hell Bill Cosby would be going there. — Lena Dunham

Hey, I’m in no way a Cosby supporter. I don’t think over 50 women who don’t know each other, with the same story deserves to be shrugged off. I see many comments about these women being tools to bring a positive Black figure down, destroy our childhood role models and the most ridiculous theory being the desperate for attention and money. As if coming forth about rape is a genuinely lucrative endeavor.

My personal “beef” with Lena Dunham has to do with her delusion that she’s a progressive thinker when it comes to feminism. She’s made multiple comments public shaming Cosby and R. Kelly but not so much figures like Woody Allen, Terry Richardson (with whom she worked with knowingly), and Roman Polansky. Furthermore, I’ve not seen one tweet about the death of Sandra Bland and many other young women who have died or been assaulted in 2015 while in custody.

As the great Jay Z would say:

Her criticism on Woody Allen and Terry Richardson has always been wrapped and padded with excuses. Soft and slightly pandering. It’s rather annoying to be half asleep, listening to some good Marc Maron and hear this chick say that she’s able to separate the art from the person.

“I’m not going to indict the work. I think that you can decide that you don’t want to support the work of somebody who has molested a child. That’s a completely appropriate choice.

“But going through it and saying, ‘Look, he’s told us in 57 ways that he rapes kids’ — that’s not the thing. The thing is to look at the actual evidence that exists in the world, which I think strongly suggests that Woody Allen is in the wrong. But for me, the point is not to go through his one-act plays, looking for references to child molestation. Because I’m not comfortable living in a world where art is part of how we convict people of crimes.” — Lena Dunham

And I can see how one could rationalize a need to do that as a creative person but where’s the tweets and outrage? Why are you posing in your best ‘Single Ladies leotard’ for Terry Richardson when you know he was whipping out his dick at photo shoots? These things don’t go together.

Perhaps its unfair to call into question her feminism. Maybe she just needs a wider world view. I’d really just rather she stfu and write that last season of ‘Girls’.