Why Does Society Hate Naked Lena Dunham??????
I know, I know... I've already posted once this week. But I really wanted to write about this and rant. So, I'm going to.So I was thinking the other night about how society is totally hating on Lena Dunham and Girls for all the nudity on the show. But when you think about it, Girls shows the same amount of nudity as Game of Thrones, Shameless, The Tudors, and other shows on the fancy tv stations.
But I have never heard of people say, "You know what, those breasts on Game of Thrones tonight just were too much." But it is common for people to say, "Why is Lena walking around naked and showing her bits?" Well ladies and gentlemen, Lena is "showing her bits" because she can and the show is being realistic. She's a twenty-something woman living in New York and walks around in her own apartment nude AND she has sex naked. I know, shocker there.
Spooning in the nude. Scandalous.
So really what society is telling us is that it is only acceptable for women to be nude if they are thin and conventionally attractive. It is also telling us that if you are not thin, you should not be proud enough of your body to put it on display. Well that is not cool. Lena, be nude and flaunt your body because you make me proud of who I am! Seriously, I love watching Girls because I get to see women who look more like myself and behave in really irrational ways.
Last week on Game of Thrones, the Red Witch was bathing nude (duh) and got out of the tub and we saw pretty much everything. That is fine and dandy. But nobody was up in arms about it and nobody will ask at a press conference "Why is there so much nudity?" because naked, thin bodies bother them less.
So I must ask the question: Why does society hate naked Lena Dunham? Well, it's because her body doesn't follow society's guidelines of what is attractive. So really we need to get over it and realize that everyone's body is beautiful and they can do whatever they want with their body.
Rock on Lena, rock on.
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