The oft-quoted distinction an opium tea-afflicted Hannah makes in the pilot, between being “the voice of my generation” and “a voice of a generation,” suggests an examination of whether any artist has truly spoken for all Americans of a certain age. Were F. Scott Fitzgerald or Jack Kerouac really making revelations that applied just as much to women and people of color and the abjectly poor of their generations as to its educated white dudes? It’s almost as if we’re holding Lena Dunham accountable in a way that these earlier Voices of a Generation didn’t have to be because she’s already somewhat outside the mainstream — a young woman whose body isn’t magazine-perfect in a world where the everyman is not only white, heterosexual, and well-off but also, well, male. Perhaps we feel like those of us who don’t fit that default have to compete to be represented on TV, and that if someone like Dunham wins, everyone else loses.
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You’ve probably read a lot of things about “Girls” today, but if you don’t mind one more, here’s mine.
Oooh, I like this; I keep saying “No more Girls thinkpieces” but I did like this.
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Oooh, I like this; I keep saying “No more Girls thinkpieces” but I did like this.
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Judy gets it. The universe of this show is REALLY REALLY SMALL. In addition, we have seen three episodes of it, max. Let...
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Haven’t watched it yet and am refusing to read anything else on it until I do, but this is the feeling I’ve been getting...
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