Mostly, we want a snark-free place for feminists to get information: “on how to vote, eat, dress, fuck, and live better”, Dunham and Konner write in Lenny’s introduction.
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Just a few weeks ago, Refinery29, a fashion and lifestyle website geared toward 20-something women, released an exclusive sit-down interview with Clinton entitled “Clinton’s Message for Millennial Women”.
Unlike most politicians’ wives throughout the history of America’s male-dominated democracy, Hillary Clinton came to her marriage with a successful and fast-advancing career of her own as an attorney, political activist and advocate for the rights of children.
“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“.
The testament to that is what follows the Clinton interview: a profile of June Jordan, an African-American writer and architect who published more than two-dozen books in her lifetime but gets less praise and recognition than Lenny believes she deserves.
I’m hoping that people will not be afraid to say that doesn’t mean you hate men. Good to know.
“I think that’s part of what your late teens and twenties are all about”, she said. “It is a question of how force is used, how our law enforcement are trained, what kind of mind-set they have as they go about their daily jobs”. Her father was a Republican and her mother a “real social-justice Democrat”. I want to just compress those.
Read the entire interview with Clinton here. Dunham suggests that giving Clinton – the subject of endless criticism related to her physical appearance – an opportunity to talk about being a fashion icon is radical in itself.
“Well, it was a personal interest”.
“We wanted to create a space where new voices were safe to speak loudly about issues they care about”. After Schumer realized Dunham did not have a meeting scheduled with Clinton, she left her in the dust and went to see the candidate without Dunham present.
“I don’t trust anybody who says that they didn’t have a few questions in their 20s”.
“Your full identity can’t be in that person”, he warned readers of getting too attached to the baes of their lives.
The first installment in the recurring feature “Rumors I Heard About My Body” isn’t almost as TMI as it sounds or as you’d expect from Dunham.
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Whether Hillary Clinton will successfully mobilize young women through leveraging these stars’ influence is still unclear.
