In a recent podcast appearance, Lena Dunham reflected on her experiences with audience reactions to her show, Girls, from 2012 onward, noting rising alt-right and conservative voices. She expressed surprise at others’ shock regarding societal shifts, highlighting the existence of angry commentary that she encountered early on. Dunham articulated a distinction between critiques from a Brooklyn audience and those stemming from a conservative viewpoint that condemned the show's essence rather than addressing issues of privilege. She remembered the conservative critique as indicative of deeper moral and cultural tensions.
"There were so many people who, when the voices of—whatever we want to call it—really alt-right, or MAGA, or conservative voices, Proud Boys or whatever started to rise, and people were like, 'I'm so shocked by the way people are talking.' I was like, 'I'm not,'" Dunham stated, reflecting on the early signs of a societal shift she observed during her show's run.
"Yes, there were people in Brooklyn who found us irritating... I always had a lot more respect for that," she added, acknowledging that some critiques were about the show itself rather than a deeper societal issue.
"There was also a big contingent of conservative people really looking at it as evidence of a sort of moral decrepitude," she said, underscoring how the backlash to the show hinted at broader cultural tensions.
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