Lena Dunham Describes Sexually Abusing Her Little Sister

Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2014-10-31 04:11

Article here. Excerpt:

'In her newly published collection of personal essays, Not That Kind of Girl, Lena Dunham [link added] describes experimenting sexually with her younger sister Grace [link added], whom she says she attempted to persuade to kiss her using “anything a sexual predator might do.” In one particularly unsettling passage, Dunham experimented with her six-year younger sister’s vagina. “This was within the spectrum of things I did,” she writes.

In the collection of nonfiction personal accounts, Dunham describes using her little sister at times essentially as a sexual outlet, bribing her to kiss her for prolonged periods and even masturbating while she is in the bed beside her. But perhaps the most disturbing is an account she proudly gives of an episode that occurred when she was seven and her sister was one. ...
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Dunham describes the book as a “work of nonfiction” in which “some names and identifying details have been changed.” She also states that she considers herself an “unreliable narrator,” which gives her some wiggle room on the truth of her accounts. As National Review's Kevin D. Williamson notes, this passage is “especially suspicious.” Clearly Grace’s prank is done with the expectation of her older sister “poking around in her genitals. ... There is no non-horrific interpretation of this episode.”'

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The article says Dunham "experimented" with her sister's vagina. Umm, just when is it ever acceptable to "experiment" on an infant's genitalia (except how infant boys' genitalia gets "experimented" on by doctors, et al., using some sort of new model of circumcision device/knife -- then, it seems, it's "acceptable".)

Also note the unwillingness of the article's author or other quoted authors to simply acknowledge what Dunham herself has said she did. I seriously doubt anyone, comedian or not, would make up molesting a sibling as a narrative about their personal life, even if they thought it'd help sell copies of books.

But it points up the can-do-no-wrong kinds of double-standards vis-a-vis women and men who are accused of or even, like her, out-and-out confess to crimes, even crimes vs. children. While Dunham was a child when she molested her sister, and despite the fact that younger-older sibling molestation is fairly common, esp. when the kids are in the single digits, it's hard to imagine why one would confess to being the molester unless they absolutely had to. Yet, reviewers of the book can't seem to just take her confession at face value.

Imagine if a male actor wrote a book that made the same or a similar confession. Can you just imagine the reviews for it? Could you not see his series cancelled if, as in this case the actor (well, actress) was also the main force behind the series coming into being and staying that way? I sure can.

Can just imagine how Dunham's relatives are taking this kind of revelation. Imagine poor Grace, too. "Hi, yes, my name is Grace. Yes, Grace Dunham, Lena's sister. Yea, the one who molested me, thanks for asking." Insult to injury.

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Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2014-10-31 05:39