Hillary Clinton sat down for an interview (and took a few “we ” fies) with “hardline journalist” Lena Dunham (Girls) recently and the gushing that ensued would make even the biggest fangirl blush.
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Dunham’s Lenny Letter has been low on the comedy quotient so far.
What I did not want to know is whether Hillary Clinton had seen Lenny Kravitz’s junk when his trousers split during a concert.
It’s been clear over the years that the pair of creative minds behind the HBO hit “Girls” – Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner – have a lot to say about modern culture.
Despite the negativity she experienced, Dunham isn’t all done with social media.
When Clinton responded to a question about how she’d handle the “fracture in race relations” that’s occurred in the wake of fatal police encounters in African-American communities, she clearly tried to appease both moderate and liberal voters. A woman attempting to claim a historically male space and saying, without a trace of apology, “I can do this, and I deserve this”.
Dunham would have preferred a less measured response. In a podcast hosted by Kara Swisher, Dunham said she has someone tweet on her behalf so that she doesn’t have to ever look at Twitter.
Hillary Clinton is hoping to top the Democratic ticket in the 2016 presidential election, but years ago, the former senator and secretary of state was actually a Republican.
The goal, said Dunham: “Can we create a space that’s snark-free, but where you’re still laughing?”
But then she went to college. Just a basic breakdown of how every woman’s cycle is different, and the only time to worry is when there are noticeable changes. Dunham promises a variety of voices that speak “to your identity”. The newsletter offers subscribers a weekly dose of feminism in an effort to increase young women’s political engagement.
Though Dunham is serious about politics and culture, she believes lighter pieces on fashion, health and sex serve an important role in Lenny. She needs to play to her strengths and figure out a way to be authentic as she is, not try so hard to be something she’s not. “It’s part of being female; we contain multitudes”.
Clinton was also given the rare opportunity to defend her Donna Karan off-the-shoulder dress that made waves back in 1993.
Hillary Clinton has never been forward on taking responsibility for actions that go wrong, so it’s perhaps not surprising that she isn’t exactly going to do so in this instance.
For her part, Clinton seemed to enjoy the flashback.
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“Yes. Absolutely. I’m always a little bit puzzled when any woman, of whatever age but particularly a young woman, says something like, “Well, I believe in equal rights, but I’m not a feminist“. That’s a period of such exploration and often torment in people’s lives”, Clinton tells Dunham.
