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Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "learned" by Lena Dunham
2 reviews
lovegriefandgender's review against another edition
funny
reflective
sad
fast-paced
3.0
Lena Dunham is an extraordinarily articulate woman — most especially on rape culture and the ways women take accountability for men. She is not afraid to bare herself, not afraid to humiliate herself, and is responsible for one of the most compelling and tender TV series ever made.
But occasionally she really puts her foot in it. Perversely and strangely slandered for a particular section, this memoir has a massive, divisive effect on consumers of Dunham's media, and reading it in 2023 the biphobic comments are leaving a really bad taste in my mouth, as is the story of a sibling's sexuality made very explicitly into part of Dunham's growth as a person. Grace doesn't really seem to get their own life beyond these pages.
It's a shame. There are moments of such sincere brilliance here.
But occasionally she really puts her foot in it. Perversely and strangely slandered for a particular section, this memoir has a massive, divisive effect on consumers of Dunham's media, and reading it in 2023 the biphobic comments are leaving a really bad taste in my mouth, as is the story of a sibling's sexuality made very explicitly into part of Dunham's growth as a person. Grace doesn't really seem to get their own life beyond these pages.
It's a shame. There are moments of such sincere brilliance here.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Biphobia
issyd23's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
3.0
Lena Dunham is far from perfect, and despite what people say, she is a good comedy writer and GIRLS is actually funny 3👧
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Biphobia, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Infertility, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Abortion, Acephobia/Arophobia, Outing, Cultural appropriation, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, and Classism