“While missteps are a given for young women developing in the spotlight (particularly if you're wealthy and white), Dunham has made no effort to take up less space, to pass the microphone or to, at the very least, listen to and grow from any of the legitimate criticism she's received.

Over the years, she's offered support for the pro-choice movement by saying she wished she had experienced an abortion, something that is unnecessary and in fact undermines some of the very necessary arguments for reproductive rights. Elsewhere, she's compared Bill Cosby crimes to the Holocaust and attempted to shame Odell Beckham Jr. for being apparently uninterested in sleeping with her (yes, this really happened). Both of those cases had strong racial undercurrents.'”

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