re: #194 wheat-dogghazi

I would argue that it’s a healthy thing for Dunham and Flynt to square off about sexuality and the media presentation of it, although they are supporters of the same party. I can’t see that kind of debate (or argument) happening among Republicans — or at least the most vocal element of the GOP right now. Most of the GOP seems to be in lockstep about denying human sexuality in general, at least in public.

In other words, I don’t expect Ann Coulter to point out Phyllis Schlafly’s blatant hypocrisy telling women they need to stay at home and take care of their families.

The thing is that I think Flynt’s trolling. A porn parody of Girls is the kind of ‘feminist baiting’ that Larry Flynt has been doing for longer than Lena Dunham has been alive. Her reacting to him gives him what he really wants: publicity for his porn and the public and media attention he craves. That is why I wrote that I think Dunham should ignore him. The correct response to Flynt’s style of trolling is the same if real life as it is online:

GAZE