This morning, actress Lena Dunham threatened to sue the Web site Truth Revolt for publishing an article which quoted Dunham’s own autobiography in which she described repeatedly sexually abusing her younger sister.
Dunham’s lawyers demanded that Truth Revolt retract the story and publish an apology, to which the site’s editors replied:
We refuse. We refuse to withdraw our story or apologize for running it, because quoting a woman’s book does not constitute a “false” story, even if she is a prominent actress and left-wing activist. Lena Dunham may not like our interpretation of her book, but unfortunately for her and her attorneys, she wrote that book.
It is not an act of slander to note that Dunham repeatedly and unabashedly described sexually predatory behavior toward her own sister: what Truth Revolt (and dozens of other sites) did is simply recount what Dunham herself wrote (including the sentence, “Basically, anything a sexual predator might do to woo a small suburban girl I was trying.”)
But why pick Truth Revolt as the target of Dunham’s “rage spiral” (as she herself characterized it)? Truth Revolt was not the first, and certainly not the only site to point out that Dunham just confessed in print to being a child molester.
To help Lena Dunham’s legal team, here is a complete list of Web sites that she needs to sue, since every one of these sites also pointed out that Lena Dunham acted in a sexually predatory manner toward her sister (click each site’s name for links to the offending posts):
“Lena Dunham Verifies Sexually Abusing Sister… the gleeful sexual abuse of her infant sister, Grace. … the casualness with which Dunham writes of predatorily violating her sister…”
“In her new book ‘Not That Kind of Girl’, Lena Dunham details some of the various ways in which she grooms and molests her younger sister. … She has taken to twitter and effectively adopted the language of abusers in saying ‘my victim isn’t mad, why should you be?’. … In the memoir she detailed grooming her sister for increasing sexual abuse. She compared herself to a predator. … Lena Dunham groomed and sexually molested her sister. It happened. She wrote about it. She published it. That’s not a slant or a spin or a ‘right wing’ news story.”
“Lena Dunham Upset About Being Accused Of Molesting Her Sister After She Writes Book Describing How She Molested Her Sister … I don’t know how you can look at this in any other way than Dunham molested her little sister.”
“Lena Dunham’s Book Details Coercive Efforts To Engage In Sexual Contact With Her Younger Sister. … Lena Dunham’s shocking new book outlines her attempts to kiss, fondle and sexually abuse her own sister.”
“Did Pervert @LenaDunham Make Her Younger Sister Grace a Lesbian? … We learn that the degenerate young Dunham molested her sister as a child.”
“Dunham shared several stories from her childhood and early adulthood, including several deeply disturbing anecdotes about sexually experimenting with her toddler-aged sister. … Many took to Twitter to express their outrage at the fact that a woman who “glibly” wrote about sexually abusing her sister during their childhood had largely escaped criticism for the act. … Dunham’s stories were deeply disturbing, and the fact that the manuscript was read and approved by several people prior to publication is even worse.”
“So it was with a considerable amount of horror that I read some of the excerpts from Lena Dunham’s biography in which she describes how she spent part of her childhood molesting her little sister.”
“Is Lena Dunham eligible for the SFWA? It appears she’ll fit right in with the SJWs, pedophiles, and child molesters there. … She’s not a voice of a generation, by her own account she is an incestuous child molester.”
“What bothers me and many others about Dunham’s stories of touching and manipulating her sister for affection is that neither of her parents is shown stepping in and teaching Lena how to respect her sister’s body and boundaries. … The way Dunham’s tells these stories is what’s most bothersome to me. … the way she describes “parting” her infant sister’s vagina is pretty goddamn stomach-turning. … Consent, consent, consent — and a one-year-old cannot consent. Regardless of whether this was merely an issue of curiosity, Lena touched her sister’s vagina without her consent. And no, she absolutely should not be milking that image for shock value. It’s tasteless and disgusting at best and blithely abusive at worst.”
“Apparently, Ms. Dunham is upset that “right-wingers” disapprove of her molesting her little sister, and later bragging about it.”
“Grace’s satisfaction with her prank suggest that Grace was expecting her older sister to go poking around in her genitals and inserted the pebbles in expectation of it. Grace is around one year old at the time of these events. There is no non-horrific interpretation of this episode.”
“Lena Dunham Admits to Sexually Molesting Younger Sister … What sickness lies in the mind and past actions of someone who openly admits to sexually molesting her younger sister.”
“Lena Dunham’s Disturbing Passage Deserves All the Scorn It’s Getting … Truth Revolt or any other publication that quoted Dunham’s book should stick to their guns given the author and her legal team have zero legs to stand on here. … As a parent, I can safely advise all others to be sure not to allow Lena Dunham within 500 feet of your children. … I just hope this column doesn’t mean a certified letter is coming to me from Dunham’s legal team anytime soon.”
“It is not an act of slander to note that Dunham repeatedly and unabashedly described sexually predatory behavior toward her own sister: what Truth Revolt (and dozens of other sites) did is simply recount what Dunham herself wrote (including the sentence, “Basically, anything a sexual predator might do to woo a small suburban girl I was trying.”)”
“We can’t imagine a world where accusations of the molestation of a younger sibling would be “LOL.” … We won’t get into another anecdote involving Dunham and her baby sister’s genitals, but as National Review’s Kevin D. Williamson puts it, “There is no non-horrific interpretation of this episode.” … Don’t twist her words? Again, these are verbatim passages from the book she chose to write and publish.”
“Lena Dunham, who recently revealed acting as a “sexual predator” towards her younger sister in her book, Not That Kind of Girl.”
“You’re a right-wing monster if you think feminist actress repeatedly molesting her sister was wrong…The book contains accounts that can certainly be interpreted as sexual molestation of a minor.”
“This is absolutely disgusting. Lena Dunham’s shocking new book outlines her attempts to kiss, fondle and sexually abuse her own sister.”
“Lena Dunham Details Sexually Molesting Her Little Sister … This is disgusting! … The worst part is that Lena thinks describing this form of abuse is entertaining and in no way further assaulting her little sister. Sick!”
“Planned Parenthood Celebrity Spokeswoman Lena Dunham Sexually Abused Her Little Sister … In one quote from the book, the prominent abortion activist essentially admits to sexually abusing her little sister.”
“Ms. Dunham describes sexually experimenting with her little sister, explaining in awkward detail how at the age of 7 she curiously peered into her 1-year-old sister’s vagina…”
“In her book Not That Kind Of Girl, Lena describes how, as a child, she bribed her little sister for affection and even once examined her vagina out of curiosity. … Unfortunately for Lena, many have seen the other side of this story and agree that what she did with her sister does constitute child molestation…”
“Lena Dunham is one sick pervert.”
“In her book, Lena writes that she touched her sister’s genitalia and tried to get her toddler sister to kiss her. … Lena also details her times masturbating in bed next to her younger sister.”
“Lena Dunham describes what reads like a mild obsession with her younger sister. But it’s the way she expressed this obsession and the way she describes in it retrospect that literally have our mouths twisting and our stomachs churning. … Lena also included another story where she masturbated while her sister was in bed beside her. … There are so many troubling elements in the retelling of this story.”
Dianna E. Anderson (book author):
(Posted photograph of the actual page in Dunham’s book in which Dunham characterizes herself as a “sexual predator.”)
“#BoycottLenaDunham”
“Lena Dunham describes experimenting sexually with her younger sister Grace…Dunham describes using her little sister at times essentially as a sexual outlet.”
“I leaned down between her legs and carefully spread open her vagina. … This was within the spectrum of things that I did. … Basically, anything a sexual predator might do to woo a small suburban girl I was trying.”
(And if you are aware of any other sites which should be added to this list, feel free to post links in the comments section below.)
For the record, here are just a few direct quotes from Lena Dunham’s newly published autobiographical memoir, Not That Kind of Girl, in which she describes…
…probing her younger sister’s vagina…:
“One day, as I sat in our driveway in Long Island playing with blocks and buckets, my curiosity got the best of me. Grace was sitting up, babbling and smiling, and I leaned down between her legs and carefully spread open her vagina. She didn’t resist, and when I saw what was inside I shrieked. “My mother came running. “Mama, Mama! Grace has something in there!”
My mother didn’t bother asking why I had opened Grace’s vagina. This was within the spectrum of things that I did.“
…and bribing her to kiss on the lips and drape their bodies together…”
“As she grew, I took to bribing her for her time and affection: one dollar in quarters if I could do her makeup like a “motorcycle chick.” Three pieces of candy if I could kiss her on the lips for five seconds. Whatever she wanted to watch on TV if she would just “relax on me.” Basically, anything a sexual predator might do to woo a small suburban girl I was trying.“
…and masturbating in the bed next to her…:
“I shared a bed with my sister, Grace, until I was seventeen years old. She was afraid to sleep alone and would begin asking me around 5:00 P.M. every day whether she could sleep with me. I put on a big show of saying no, taking pleasure in watching her beg and sulk, but eventually I always relented. Her sticky, muscly little body thrashed beside me every night as I read Anne Sexton, watched reruns of SNL, sometimes even as I slipped my hand into my underwear to figure some stuff out.”
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