the feminist librarian reads

The problem is that no one ever told Dunham her freedom had a limit. The fact that Dunham off-handedly writes that her mother didn’t correct her because peering into vaginas was just “within the spectrum of things [she] did” is indicative of something that is at the root of every tiresome Dunham backlash: the fact that, of all the things this young artist has included in the vast multimedia portrayal of her own experience, there are very, very few moments of true consideration for any difficulties contained in experiences that are not her own.