The truth is, we were all just jealous<\/p>\n
To Lena Dunham, I need to say that I\u2019m sorry. I\u2019m sure she\u2019ll never read this, since she doesn\u2019t seem like the kind of person who Googles herself. If I was Lena, I certainly wouldn\u2019t. The internet is full of mockery, sarcasm and outright cruelty. I\u2019ve been part of the problem, too. Lena and I were starting off our careers at the same time, those halcyon days of the 2010s, when people still subscribed to cable TV and social media was just a fun new tool to post random thoughts and photos of your brunch. Now, if you post a photo of a meal, people will scream at you for bragging that you can afford food.<\/p>\n
Fourteen years since HBO\u2019s Girls turned Dunham from an indie film darling into a mainstream superstar, the writer\/director is now releasing a memoir that reflects on her time in the cultural crosshairs. The headline of a New York Times interview reads: \u201cLena Dunham Is Still Trying to Figure Out Why People Hated Her So Much<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The truth is, we were all just jealous To Lena Dunham, I need to say that I\u2019m sorry. I\u2019m sure she\u2019ll never read this, since she doesn\u2019t seem like the kind of person who Googles herself. If I was Lena, I certainly wouldn\u2019t. The internet is full of mockery, sarcasm and outright cruelty. I\u2019ve been … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}