October 06, 2014
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LENA DUNHAM’s UNRELIABLE RAPE NARRATIVE
Potato-faced cable-TV auteur Lena Dunham of the HBO series Girls is now claiming she was raped by a “campus Republican” while attending Oberlin College sometime around 2005. In a chapter of her new book Not That Kind of Girl, Dunham recounts a sloppy sexual liaison with a young man she dubs “Mr. Face for Radio””look who’s talking!”whom she met at a party while she was under the influence of Xanax, cocaine, and alcohol.
She says that after they left the party, she dropped her pants outside and squatted down to pee, whereupon her new male friend shoved some fingers up her vagina without asking. “I”m not sure whether I can”t stop it or I don”t want to,” Dunham writes. Yet she apparently did not try to stop him, nor did she tell him to stop.
Upon getting back to her apartment, she claims she indulged in a bit of dirty talk with him before they had sex. When she noticed that a condom he had been wearing somehow came loose and was hanging from a plant, she ended the encounter and told him to leave. Later, when a friend solemnly told her she”d been raped, Dunham claims to have “burst out laughing.
But now she’s saying it was rape. Well, kind of. “I feel like there are fifty ways it’s my fault,” she writes. “But I also know that at no moment did I consent to being handled that way.” But again, according to her statements, at no moment did she have to struggle. At no moment did she tell him to stop. In fact, according to her account, she stopped the sexual encounter and he left the moment she told him to leave.
But in California now, that’s considered rape. California’s new SB-967, the “Yes on Yes” bill, states:
Lack of protest or resistance does not mean consent, nor does silence mean consent….Affirmative consent must be ongoing throughout a sexual activity and can be revoked at any time.
“I am an unreliable narrator,” Dunham writes. Yeah, no kidding. It’s obvious she”d be even more unreliable on a witness stand”not that it would matter in California.
TOM, JERRY, & MAMMY TWO SHOES
Tom and Jerry, that loveable cat-and-mouse duo who were always beating the hell out of one another, are now complicit figures in America’s shameful legacy of racial stereotyping”or at least according to a new disclaimer being featured on Amazon Prime, where the series is now available for streaming:
Tom and Jerry shorts may depict some ethnic and racial prejudices that were once commonplace in American society. Such depictions were wrong then and are wrong today.
Most of the hubbub involves the “Mammy Two Shoes“ character, so named because she was almost always depicted from the knees down. Mammy’s character was a black woman voiced by a real-life black woman who sounded black”which is apparently just as “wrong” now as it supposedly was then.
The new warning mirrors an earlier intro by alleged comedienne Whoopi Goldberg on a Tom and Jerry DVD collection warning viewers about Mammy. In the intro, Goldberg neglects to mention how she guffawed at then-boyfriend Ted Danson’s 1993 appearance in blackface at a Friars” Club roast.
Writing for the Daily Mail, former sociology professor Frank Furedi lambastes what he calls the “Puritans” at Amazon, claiming that their disclaimer is:
a worrying new example of the way history is being re-written by politically-correct know-alls who are so blinkered that they can only see things from their own perspective…it’s hard not to believe that their real motive is to parade their own piety.
POLL: ONLY ONE-FIFTH OF DEMOCRATS OPPOSE HATE-SPEECH LAWS
An Economist /YouGov poll revealed that most Americans”Republicans and Democrats alike”support enhanced criminal penalties for so-called violent “hate crimes.”
More troubling is the fact that 51% of Democrats polled said they also supported criminal penalties for mere spoken or written comments that “advocate genocide or hatred” against presumably anyone except for white males. Only 49% of Republicans opposed the idea of such laws.
Keep talking while you still can, because the way things are going, it will soon be illegal.
