While many fans admire how Lena Dunham has always been strongly opinionated and willing to speak her mind, the actress’s new editorial piece has gained a lot of negative attention for the star of the hit television program, “Girls.”
The title that has the entertainment world furious and in an uproar was entitled “Dog or Jewish Boyfriend.” The piece was supposed to be a quiz where the actress asked readers to guess whether or not she was speaking about her dog or her Jewish boyfriend.
The article was posted in the New Yorker, and many are wondering why they approved such a failed attempt at humor, which insulted a lot of patrons.
Questions from the quiz included “He doesn’t tip. And he never brings his wallet anywhere,” while another commented by saying, “he comes from a culture in which mothers focus every ounce of their attention on their offspring and don’t acknowledge their own need for independence as women. They are sucked dry by their children, who ultimately leave them as soon as they find suitable mates.”
While Dunham’s mother is Jewish, that does not give the actress the right to stereotype the Jewish population by trying to specifically point the reader to assume the answers to these questions has to be the Jewish boyfriend, and not a dog.
Dunham has gained a lot of controversy and bad press regarding her newest article. Over the last year the young actress has also seen a lot of attention regarding her views on molestation and rape.
Dunham has yet to discuss the article and her representative said that she is not going to give a statement at this time.
Meanwhile, the New Yorker released an official statement regarding why they choose to publish the article; they stated, “The Jewish-comic tradition is rich with the mockery of, and playing with, stereotypes. Anyone who has ever heard Lenny Bruce or Larry David or Sarah Silverman or who has read ‘Portnoy’s Complaint’ knows that. Lena Dunham, who is Jewish and hugely talented, is a comic voice working in that vein. Richard Pryor and Chris Rock do the same about black stereotypes; Amy Schumer does it with women and gender. I don’t mind if one reader or another didn’t find the piece funny. People can differ on that. But considering all the real hatred and tragedy in the world, the people getting exercised about the so-called anti-Semitism of this comic piece, like those who railed at Philip Roth a generation or two ago, are, with respect, howling in the wrong direction.”
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