Just getting my butt lotioned in preparation for a butt sculpture.  Why, what are you doing right now?

We went to a boy strip club for a bachelorette party last night. Lots of thoughts/feelings.

After reading Mother Jones’ Asawin Suebsaeng’s hyper-negative and more-than-slightly obnoxious review of Lena Dunham’s Girls, I can’t help but think that he missed the entire point.  From his “no just hear me out!” moment admitting that “the hot one” is the only character that he’s interested in, to the rolling list of things he seems to find boring about the show (including casual abortions and STDs), it feels like Suebsaeng forgot that this series IS NOT ABOUT HIM.  

This list of allegedly uninteresting stuff that the Girls stupid lady creative team “threw at the wall” in this premier are not actually a series of kooky/boring bullet points that came out of a contrived brainstorm sesh, but are in fact real and tabooed parts of women’s lives:

“The creative team behind Girls throws everything at the wall (passionless sex, STDs, casual abortions, boring boyfriends, gay boyfriends, drugs, money woes, body image), in an effort to see what sticks. But due to tired tropes and failed attempts at dry humor, nothing does.”

I just don’t get how that list could be considered uninteresting, but then again, I feel like this author’s perception of boring is about as accurate as his understanding of stereotypes and tropes.

Suebsaeng writes of the show’s cast of characters,

“Rounding out the cast of poorly dressed stereotypes are Jessa, a promiscuous, free-spirited Brit who thinks conventional dating is ‘for lesbians,’ and Shoshanna, a Sex and the City-worshipping virgin.”

Oh you know, that old tired stereotype of Sex and the City-worshipping virgins.  Yeah! Soooo annoying, like that other trope of flag football playing genderqueer folks who are suuuuuper into food blogging. Or, you know, poorly dressed British people who think that dating is for lesbians….

Here’s the thing. Even if Girls does turn out to suck, I don’t think that stereotypes and its focus on issues that a lot of young women face are the problem.  Clearly this is going to be a show about ladies on the richer, straighter, cis-er, and whiter side of things.  This is what will make this show boring.  Not the assumption that lady-biz is tired old boring bullshit (that doesn’t necessarily apply to all dudes) to be making a TV show about.  Fuck!  I am more than psyched to see girls talking about casually aborting fetuses and dealing with STDs.  These are things I have literally never seen on TV before.  

Wrapping up, I just want to point out the weirdness that is Mother Jones’ choice to put some dude on the task of screening and writing up Girls.  So rude to the ladies who might have wanted to get their hands on that screener!