If you haven't seen the indie pic "Tiny Furniture", I strongly recommend it.Actually, let me quantify that a little bit more: if you haven't seen "Tiny Furniture" and you understand what it is to - at some point - be aimless in your life, and perhaps your level of self-confidence isn't quite where it should be which leads you to make rather bad "romantic" (I use the term loosely) choices, then I strongly recommend it.
Lena Dunham is, quite simply, amazing. "Tiny Furniture" was brilliant and - unfortunately - I do not get HBO so I have not see "Girls", so when the furor erupted over a TV critic asking why she had to be so randomly naked in the show and Time Magazine did a piece on it, I was further intrigued.
I am currently watching "The Tudors" on Netflix. It's actually not really that good and is blasphemously historically inaccurate. But: the people in it are pretty and they are naked a lot and it's rather titillating. I don't recall anyone ever decrying the nudity on "The Tudors", "The Borgia", or "Game of Thrones" with it's hilariously skewed percentage of full frontal female nudity.
I don't get Molloy's question. I am naked often, and it's not to fuck Henry the 8th in some glorious fashion. Additionally, as posited in the article, Dunham is possibly doing it with comedic intent.
Summarily, Molloy is questioning Dunham's own use of her body in a show that she created because it doesn't conform to the stereotypical (and highly unrealistic) nude scenes in other shows.
Are you kidding me?
And these are the same sort of people who crap all over women who do conform for the sheer audacity of being naked while doing anything. It's either titillating, or reprehensible - it can't ever just be nudity.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny how worked up people get about the naked human form, and about women. Combine the two, and oh my god....
DeleteI agree, women should be naked more often.
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