Lena Dunham denies molestation "rumor"

Article here. Excerpt:

'Lena Dunham is firing back at a rumor claiming she molested her little sister. It began when certain outlets quoted a passage of Dunham’s new book “Not That Kind of Girl” in which she describes being seven years old and asking her mother whether her one-year-old sister Grace had the same genitals she did.
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In another passage, Dunham says that her sexual experimentation at that extremely young age led her to use tactics similar to “anything a sexual predator might do.” At least one website ran Dunham’s words beneath the headline, “Lena Dunham Describes Sexually Abusing Her Little Sister.” On Saturday, the “Girls” creator and actress struck back on Twitter.

She tweeted, “The right wing news story that I molested my little sister isn’t just LOL – it’s really f*cking upsetting and disgusting. And by the way, if you were a little kid and never looked at another little kid’s vagina, well, congrats to you.”

“Usually this is stuff I can ignore but don’t demean sufferers, don’t twist my words, back the f*ck up bros,” continued Dunham. “I told a story about being a weird 7 year old. I bet you have some too, old men, that I’d rather not hear. And yes, this is a rage spiral. Sometimes I get so mad I burn right up. Also I wish my sister wasn’t laughing so hard.”'

Related prior post on MANN here. Also see this article.

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If it's a rumor, it's one she started by saying she did what she did. Now is a 7-YO *fully* culpable morally for her behavior? No. Was she at least old enough to know what she was doing when she "experimented" on (not "with", since that'd imply morally equivalent ability to consent, which a 1-YO doesn't have) her 1-YO sister? Yes.

As for "right-wing", how is it "right-wing" to denounce an adult declaring that their inappropriate sexual contact with a 1-YO when said adult was a 7-YO was not only defensible but typifiable as "funny" in some way? Maybe for the 7-YO, but not the 1-YO. The ax always thinks its day in the forest was "fun". The forest, however, does not.

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