{"id":14052,"date":"2015-09-30T20:45:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T20:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mytrendybuzz.com\/blog\/?p=14052"},"modified":"2015-09-30T20:45:26","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T20:45:26","slug":"the-shameful-shaming-of-lena-dunham-forces-her-off-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mytrendybuzz.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/30\/the-shameful-shaming-of-lena-dunham-forces-her-off-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shameful Shaming of Lena Dunham Forces Her Off Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p><em>Girls<\/em> creator and self-professed feminist, Lena Dunham is done with Twitter after getting verbally assaulted after playfully <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/7t-j39C1Ib\/\">posting an image <\/a>showcasing her in a sports bra and boyfriend Jack Antonoff\u2019s boxers on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mytrendybuzz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/400_300_lenadunham_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14053\" src=\"http:\/\/mytrendybuzz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/400_300_lenadunham_.jpg\" alt=\"400_300_lenadunham_\" width=\"640\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mytrendybuzz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/400_300_lenadunham_.jpg 640w, http:\/\/mytrendybuzz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/400_300_lenadunham_-300x177.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>What ensued is what Dunham decribes as \u201cthe most rabid, disgusting debate about women\u2019s bodies\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time that the actress and literary aficionado has been publicly ridiculed by body shamers who have no issue with reminding Dunham that she is grossly lacking when it comes to her physical prowess.<\/p>\n<p>The latest attack was the last straw as Dunham finally waved the white flag and promised to bow out from any social interactions on the web, citing the brutal encounter with strangers who are more than willing to express how much they hate her body. She is more than happy to assign someone else with the task of tweeting and posting on her behalf.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Kara Swisher\u2019s <em>Re\/code Decode<\/em> podcast, Dunham confirmed her status \u201cI really appreciate that anybody follows me at all, and so I didn\u2019t want to cut off my relationship to it completely, but it really, truly wasn\u2019t for me\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Dunham also criticized her once preferred publications \u2013 <em>Gawker<\/em> and J<em>ezebel<\/em> for contributing to the bandwagon of hate \u2013 declaring that she no longer indulges in anything the two blogs have to offer.<\/p>\n<p>She did get into trouble for likening the experience of reading both sites to \u201cgoing back to a husband who beat me in the face \u2013 it just doesn\u2019t make any sense\u201d. She later issued an apology on Instagram for making the careless reference to domestic violence. Dunham insisted that she wasn\u2019t trying to make light of that level of violence but merely hoping to illustrate how brutally unsafe the web can be.<\/p>\n<p>Dunham\u2019s prized HBO series will make its long-awaited return in January \u2013 in the meantime, there is talk that <em>Girls<\/em> may end its run sooner rather in later.<\/p>\n<p>Until then \u2013 Dunham will continue to flourish in her craft while the evil body shamers and trolls will carry on in their quest to pollute the landscape of social media.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Girls creator and self-professed feminist, Lena Dunham is done with Twitter after getting verbally assaulted after playfully posting an image [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,38,6],"tags":[2318,1014,34,2317,2348,1015,2278],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.3 - 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