Despite her promise to leave the country if Donald Trump won the presidency, Lena Dunham has decided to stick around. In a pre-election interview with Fox & Friends, Trump called Dunham a “B-Actor” bereft of “mojo” and opined that the exodus of Dunham and other folks solemnly vowing to leave if he triumphed would be “a great thing for our country.” I’m inclined to agree, because whether she’s agitating for Hillary Clinton or waxing on about millennial ennui, Dunham never does much more than purvey outrage and anxiety disguised as commentary and political activism.
Two years ago in Vogue, Dunham wrote that she inherited from her mother the belief that “the freedom to decide what you want to do with your life, how you want to be perceived and treated, to dress and act and engage the world in whatever way feels most natural, safe, and kind to you—was not a privilege but a right.” While few would be troubled by a belief in the right to act freely, especially when such actions affect only oneself, most would take issue with a belief in a legal right to be “perceived and treated” in “whatever way feels most natural, safe, and kind.” This position, which is the basis of much of Dunham’s political activism, is indefensible.
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