Up to date: 23:09 EST, 29 September 2015 Lena Dunham has confirmed in that the sixth season of her hit show Girls would be the last.
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Dunham praised the approach taken by the classicist Mary Beard, who responded to trolls on Twitter and even met one for lunch to discuss what motivated them to send abusive tweets, but said she did not have the energy to do the same.
Tweeted, “Let’s do away with pop songs where a girl nods yes when she means no and vice versa, k?” While someone else tweets for her through her account, she is not spending time on the social media platform. “I said something about Justin Bieber last week and supposedly there’s been massive trolling by Justin Bieber fans, but I don’t know, so I don’t care”.
The decision for Dunham to hand over her Twitter account to her management is interesting given the extent to which her “no holds barred” social media use is part of her personal brand.
The most recent degrading comments Dunham has received were in response to an Instagram picture of herself wearing her boyfriend’s boxers.
The Girls creator, who has nearly three million followers on Twitter, now relies on another person to publish her posts. “And it turned into rabid, disgusting debate about women’s bodies and my Instagram page was somehow the hub for misogynists for the afternoon”.
“A couple of weeks ago I put up an Instagram picture of me – I thought it was amusing – and I had to wear my boyfriend’s underwear because my dog literally ate all my under trousers”, she told Swisher.
“Even if you think, like, ‘Oh I can read, like, 10 mentions that say I should be stoned to death and kind of, like, laugh and move on, ‘ that’s verbal abuse”.
“That’s verbal abuse. Those aren’t words you’d accept in an interpersonal relationship”.
“There are marked incidences of girls committing suicide after massive Twitter bullying”, Dunham said.
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“I don’t look at Twitter anymore”. “So I didn’t want to cut off my relationship to it completely, but it really, truly wasn’t a safe space for me”.
