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Post by Ginger on Nov 5, 2019 17:54:13 GMT -4
I think she's nuts, but that doesn't mean she's not sick. Could be, but her illnesses seem to come on in succession. She milks the drama out of each one before moving on to the next. First it was crippling Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and anxiety. Then it was the "incredible pain" of eating disorders. Then it was Endometriosis. Then it was prescription pill addiction. Now it's a rare, vague and trendy disorder shared by other cool people Sia and Jameela Jamil. I think I probably missed some ailments in that list. The list is becoming suspiciously long and I'm sure it will be longer by the end of 2020. |
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Post by lordofthefries on Nov 18, 2020 13:28:40 GMT -4
Lena wrote this essay in Harper's about trying - and failing - to have a child. Though she can often be insufferable, this is Lena at her best. It's powerfully and poignantly written about a subject and topic that gets little coverage outside of a toxic positivity/miracle baby angle. |
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Post by Neurochick on Nov 18, 2020 15:37:23 GMT -4
Lena wrote this essay in Harper's about trying - and failing - to have a child. Though she can often be insufferable, this is Lena at her best. It's powerfully and poignantly written about a subject and topic that gets little coverage outside of a toxic positivity/miracle baby angle. I had forgotten she existed. |
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Post by scarlet on Nov 18, 2020 15:42:41 GMT -4
"Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood" is on STARZ right now and I re-watched the other day. She's so bad in her very brief role.
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Post by Ginger on Nov 18, 2020 17:02:11 GMT -4
Lena wrote this essay in Harper's about trying - and failing - to have a child. Though she can often be insufferable, this is Lena at her best. It's powerfully and poignantly written about a subject and topic that gets little coverage outside of a toxic positivity/miracle baby angle. Thank you for the link. It's going to take me some time to get through it properly. The first couple of paragraphs about having a hysterectomy and then immediately pursuing a single-parent adoption while in rehab for opioid addiction was too much for me to even READ. I'm hoping the essay becomes more about her progress towards finding peace and stability in her life rather than her progress towards becoming a parent. |
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Post by lpatrice on Nov 18, 2020 23:21:40 GMT -4
Yeah. I feel like she's trying to acquire a child to fill a void in her life. Don't get me wrong, people do it all of the time but Lena certainly has some nerve trying to adopt a child while in rehab. Just no.
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Post by technicolor on Nov 19, 2020 14:01:03 GMT -4
Dunham is talented in the way she knows how to write about the base selfishness of people and how they tell themselves they're the "good guys" while doing destructive, self-involved things. IMO that is a fact of all humans and we're constantly struggling against this first egoistic instinct. "Girls" was at its best when it acknowledged this.
But she's so insulated in her privilege and her various issues and has said so many offensive, tone-deaf things. It would be best if she stepped back from public life for a bit and sorted herself out IMO.
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Post by Ginger on Nov 19, 2020 14:26:20 GMT -4
My sympathies to Lena for what she went through with her surgeries and the protracted hysterectomy process. It sounds like it was horrible. Suddenly starting to lactate in the middle of it is extra awful and gross. Yeah. I feel like she's trying to acquire a child to fill a void in her life. Don't get me wrong, people do it all of the time but Lena certainly has some nerve trying to adopt a child while in rehab. Just no. She does seem to have realized this, according to her essay. What I find odd is her conclusion to the essay, which is her apparent belief that the door to parenthood is and should be permanently closed for her. It's a bit all or nothing. She frantically pursued parenthood under the worst circumstances at the worst time of her life and for all the wrong reasons. She doesn't seem to be leaving open the possibility that in 5 or 10 years she might be physically healthier and in a good relationship and might want to pursue adoption in a more realistic way. I know it's easier said than done but she needs, needs, needs to let go of her ex. She clearly has not gotten over him and doesn't seem to want to. I keep hearing about her trying to reconnect with him as a friend (and get a tattoo for him!). She's not going to move forward in life until she eliminates his constant presence in her thoughts and plans. Also, she did recognize that she has driven a lot of her friends away and that it was her fault, not theirs. I know she's been in therapy since she was a kid, but maybe she needs one of those tough-love therapists who will help her with these problems instead of coddling her about her triggers. |
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Post by Ladybug on Nov 19, 2020 16:46:25 GMT -4
immediately pursuing a single-parent adoption while in rehab for opioid addiction Wasn't there some controversy over her rehoming a dog she'd adopted because she couldn't handle the dog's behavior problems? And she wants to adopt a child in the middle of rehab? Dogs and kids are not the same, but this is not a good track record. |
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Post by Ginger on Nov 19, 2020 17:22:33 GMT -4
She had a veterinarian come to her defense and say that the dog had behavioral problems that she attempted to deal with appropriately....
However, the dog thrived as soon as he was rehomed. It was a high-anxiety dog that could not handle a lot of interaction with people or external stimuli, and Lena insisted on dragging him around NYC with her everywhere she went. She treated him like an emotional support animal, carried him around in her purse, and forced him to accompany her to work, interviews, everywhere. Then he'd have anxiety freakouts and bite her because he was not cut out to be an emotional support animal. So I do blame her for that. The dog's new home gave him the lifestyle he needed (at home chillin') and she wasn't willing to do that.
And she basically admitted in her essay that she now uses her two hairless cats as emotional crutches, which I suppose is fine to some degree if the cats can handle it.
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