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Lena Dunham Weighs In On Kanye’s “Famous” Video Lena Dunham is known to be just chock full of un-asked for opinions with a feminist twist. Being that she’s also one of Taylor Swift’s henchmen, naturally she had to hop to social media to let everyone know just how much she’s “disturbed” by Kanye West’s latest video, “Famous.” Even though Lena swears she’s a huge fan of Kanye and all things Kanrdashian, she says that she’s having very conflicted thoughts about ‘Ye and says ‘the Famous video is one of the more disturbing “artistic” efforts in recent memory.’ Via Facebook : Let’s break it down: at the same time Brock Turner is getting off with a light tap for raping an unconscious woman and photographing her breasts for a group chat… As assaults are Periscoped across the web and girls commit suicide after being exposed in ways they never imagined… While Bill Cosby’s crimes are still being uncovered and understood as traumas for the women he assaulted but also massive bruises to our national consciousness… Now I have to see the prone, unconscious, waxy bodies of famous women, twisted like they’ve been drugged and chucked aside at a rager? It gives me such a sickening sense of dis-ease. …I know that art’s job is to make us think in ways that aren’t always tidy or comfortable. But this feels different… I’m sure that Bill Cosby doll being in the bed alongside Donald Trump is some kind of statement, that I’m probably being trolled on a super high level. I know that there’s a hipper or cooler reaction to have than the one I’m currently having. But guess what? I don’t have a hip cool reaction, because seeing a woman I love like Taylor Swift (f*ck that one hurt to look at, I couldn’t look), a woman I admire like Rihanna or Anna, reduced to a pair of waxy breasts made by some special effects guy in the Valley, it makes me feel sad and unsafe and worried for the teenage girls who watch this and may not understand that grainy roving camera as the stuff of snuff films… Here’s the thing, Kanye: you’re cool. Make a statement on fame and privacy and the Illuminati or whatever is on your mind! But I can’t watch it, don’t want to watch it, if it feels informed and inspired by the aspects of our culture that make women feel unsafe even in their own beds, in their own bodies… Man…that is a whole lot of thought from someone famous who’s not event included in the bed. We’re assuming that Taylor sic’d her “squad” member on Kanye to say things she didn’t feel like saying personally and drag a bunch of totally unrelated issues into the mix. Brock Turner though? SMH. Not to mention that Kanye’s video is actually BASED on an existing artwork …so did that make her feel unsafe and attacked too? [Insert think-face emoji] What do you think of Lena’s draining response? Splash/TIDAL

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Girl, Who Asked You? “Girls” Creator Lena Dunham Goes On Facebook Rant About Kanye’s “Famous” Vid – “I Feel Unsafe”