Lena Dunham, everyone's favorite adult preteen, wrote a memoir recently called Not That Kind of Girl. There's a good chance you at least know it exists, and that's mostly because of one specific trademark-Lena-Dunham-uncomfortable passage.
If you have no idea what I'm talking about, get ready to be uncomfortable right now. The controversy centers on her description in the book of an incident that happened when she was 7 where, after learning that both she and her 1-year-old sister, Grace, had uteruses, she decided to open Grace's vagina and look for herself.
Yeah, I know. Long story short, Grace had shoved a few pebbles up her vagina, Lena screamed, her mom came out, baby Grace thought the whole thing was hilarious. Hear me out for a second: that's uncomfortable, sure, but I don't think it's bad or anything. One, kids are weird. Two, though it's hard for us as adults to not project sexuality on bodies or touching, Lena was 7 years old and zero percent of this was sexual.
We all need to get over ourselves a little bit. However, although it's in a different part of the chapter, the above excerpt rarely has been discussed without a mention of another section about the way, a few years later, Lena explored her sexuality with her sister, bribing her to kiss her or masturbating in the bed next to her.
Lena, in her ever-unfortunate wisdom, decided to describe her actions to get her sister's attention as things "a sexual predator might do to woo a small suburban girl. When I read that excerpt, I immediately logged in to Tumblr with an already half-formed politically correct rant in my head, but before I could type a word, a conservative website, TruthRevolt, published a critique featuring accusations of sexual assault so fucking stupid it sucked every bit of SJW energy right out of me.
