The color of Extraordinary.

jewist:

shout out to potatoes for being so fucking versatile and delicious 

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Hi, everyone. I’m going to be “ground breaking”: I like Lena Dunham.

couldbeyourlife:

isaoubel:

doctorwhookah:

I am so thankful I found her through Tumblr. Ever since I was little, I have wanted to be a director. It always annoyed me that woman weren’t taken seriously in the area of directing. Until 2009, no woman had won one of the most aspired directing titles, the Academy for “Best Director” (which was given to Kathryn Bigelow for “The Hurt Locker”). It seemed like the opinion on woman’s directing would switch from there, but it was only the beginning. More and more woman directors are popping up. They’re inspirations which mark a ground for future generations.

Lena Dunham is a female director. I find that fact alone incredible. Even more so, her films are honest. There’s not romanticism, a blatant example is her body. She’s not the stereotypical movie thin nor does the fact that she’s not mean anything to her characters. They’re just themselves; they’re just humans. I saw “Tiny Furniture” and loved it. It was filled with humans doing human things. So many movies forget what the moving picture was made for: capturing human movements. 

I am excited for her HBO show. It seems to be, once again, showing humans for humans. I know people are complaining that it’s “white people problems”. In a way, it is. Still, she has addressed on how in the second season she wants to add diversity. Regardless, “white people problems” are still problems. You can recognize that within the title. Even if you think something is shallow or petty, on some basis you can relate to it. That’s a fault or beauty in humans. 

I highly doubt that the show (or her movie) is only “white people problems”. There’s the aspect of deciding what to do with your life, what “your life” means. Maturity and growth meet “while people problems”. 

I love Lena Duhman and she inspires me. I am so aggravated with the unnecessary hate. Please, people, just respect. 

the point of ‘girls’ is that it is addressing another issue. not racism. sexism. it doesn’t do it in any empowered feminist in your face way though, it’s just putting four girls on a major network as the MAIN characters as a show, with the males supporting characters strictly.  it’s white people problems, but it’s not white male problems. that’s groundbreaking about girls.

Tags: designing women golden girls sex and the city parks and rec buffy also hbo isn’t a network as it is a cable channel but that’s beside the point ally mcbeal gilmore girlscagney and lacey judging amy mary tyler moore laverne and shirley alias xenamurphy brown veronica mars 

I understand what you’re trying to point out and I get where it’s coming from. When I said groundbreaking, I did not mean it had ABSOLUTELY NEVER EVER BEEN DONE BEFORE. I’m not absolutely sure, but I think Parks and Rec is the only one of those shows still on and current, and it appeals to a much more sophisticated and humorous ideal, not to mention the ensemble main cast is about half male. Girls appeals to the very our-generation-based idea of hopelessness and not knowing what to do with yourself after college is done, in the context of a addressing the growing problem of female under representation and exploitation in the media.

Hi, everyone. I’m going to be “ground breaking”: I like Lena Dunham.

trionerd:

theytrynabequeens:

isaoubel:

doctorwhookah:

I am so thankful I found her through Tumblr. Ever since I was little, I have wanted to be a director. It always annoyed me that woman weren’t taken seriously in the area of directing. Until 2009, no woman had won one of the most aspired directing titles, the Academy for “Best Director” (which was given to Kathryn Bigelow for “The Hurt Locker”). It seemed like the opinion on woman’s directing would switch from there, but it was only the beginning. More and more woman directors are popping up. They’re inspirations which mark a ground for future generations.

Lena Dunham is a female director. I find that fact alone incredible. Even more so, her films are honest. There’s not romanticism, a blatant example is her body. She’s not the stereotypical movie thin nor does the fact that she’s not mean anything to her characters. They’re just themselves; they’re just humans. I saw “Tiny Furniture” and loved it. It was filled with humans doing human things. So many movies forget what the moving picture was made for: capturing human movements. 

I am excited for her HBO show. It seems to be, once again, showing humans for humans. I know people are complaining that it’s “white people problems”. In a way, it is. Still, she has addressed on how in the second season she wants to add diversity. Regardless, “white people problems” are still problems. You can recognize that within the title. Even if you think something is shallow or petty, on some basis you can relate to it. That’s a fault or beauty in humans. 

I highly doubt that the show (or her movie) is only “white people problems”. There’s the aspect of deciding what to do with your life, what “your life” means. Maturity and growth meet “while people problems”. 

I love Lena Duhman and she inspires me. I am so aggravated with the unnecessary hate. Please, people, just respect. 

the point of ‘girls’ is that it is addressing another issue. not racism. sexism. it doesn’t do it in any empowered feminist in your face way though, it’s just putting four girls on a major network as the MAIN characters as a show, with the males supporting characters strictly.  it’s white people problems, but it’s not white male problems. that’s groundbreaking about girls.

What you fail to realize is, Women of Color don’t have the same problems as White Women. We cannot relate to this. The struggles and problems these characters face have nothing to do with me. Shows like “Girls” try to pretend that their characters don’t have privilege, when they absolutely do. In reality, these women will have more job opportunities than me, they will make more money than me, their parents will be able to help them out more, law enforcement will treat them better than me, they’ll be able to find a house/apartment faster than me, they will face less problems than me, BECAUSE THEY ARE WHITE.

Having to struggle for the first time in your life, adjusting to not having the world hand you everything, being mistreated for the first time? That is not something i have empathy towards. That’s the life of a WoC from the get-go.

Something that only helps the cause of white women does not help me. At all. Stop acting like there have never been relatable white girls on television, stop acting like Lena Dunham is representing all of us. Please say what you mean. Lena Dunham represents white women who don’t have certain privileges for the first time in their lives. If the media wants to call that “confused girls, trying to find themselves”, then so be it. This is not how all of us find ourselves. We’re no that lucky.

This show is for white people, and white people only. If you can’t understand that, then you need to take your head out of your ass.

Don’t even get me started on the fact that none of this 20-year old women are confident or competent. That’s a completely different discussion.

P.S. Fuck you, for trying to make me identify as one thing. Goddamn, I am a black woman and those two things cannot be separated or ignored. 

P.P.S.: I am so goddamn sick of progressivist mind frames.  especially with feminism.  haven’t american feminists failed women of color long enough?  stop calling constructive and warranted criticism hate just because you feel upset or uncomfortable with someone else’s opinion.  

P.P.P.S: girls?  really? the title of a show about a group of twenty-something females?  talk about infantilization or at least facets of some really internalized/socialized bullshit.  think of it this way - would there ever be a show about a group of twenty-something males call ‘boys’? 

I think you both make really valid points and I personally cannot fathom that depth of oppression specifically because I am a privileged white girl from Manhattan. i am deeply sorry if i worded something in a way to make it seem as though the steps girls takes for feminism negates the steps it doesn’t for racism and women of color, that was not my intention. However, I do know first and second hand the struggles that women, regardless of skin color, face and must overcome daily. What girls does is embody quite a few of those struggles, and that is good for the young women who will watch it. I am not going to tell you that you must watch girls in order to be a feminist, and i am not saying it the perfect and all-encompassing weapon against sexism or anything else. In fact, I believe there really is a deficiency in representation in a show that claims to be very progressive, but we do not know if that is Lena Dunham’s fault- it could easily be that of HBO or her producers or Dunham not considering it (which would be her fault because she should have). Girls is a single step forward against hundreds of years of systematic oppression of women as a whole. I hope, and I believe Lena Dunham does as well, (based off an interview) that there are an adequate number of WOC on the show in the future. That would be fantastic. In addition, trionerd’s last point really hit hard for me- it points out the inequality and literal imbalance of power of the sexes in the media. Thank you both for not  responding unintelligently. This really is an important issue surrounding the show, and it should be discussed by both the fanbase and demographic the show hits and it’s critics.