Is the destruction and annihilation of culture in the US inevitable?

[KingSweden]

I finally finished the last season of Girls (which is basically the most Millennial show ever) and I can not imagine any character on that show caring the slightest about their ethnic heritage and traditions. They're the very epitome of "rootless cosmopolitan".

Girls is a Millennial show in the sense that all Millennials are exclusively affluent New Yorkers who want to find themselves and explore their art with their pretentious self absorbed Brooklynite friends. Because the charmed experiences of an Upper East Side socialite who has been fawmed over in NY media circles since she was a child and has admitted to some odd sexual experiences involving her younger sister are pretty universal to people my age.

[KingSweden]

an Upper East Side socialite who has been fawmed over in NY media circles since she was a child and has admitted to some odd sexual experiences involving her younger sister

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Are you talking about a fictional character or an actual person here? The former wouldn't be great (especially since as I understand it Girls is supposed to have a very realistic tone), but at least it wouldn't be the latter.

I'm talking about Dunham herself. Girls actually DOES have a fairly realistic tone in how it portrays some issues common to young women (at least in my interpretation. It's remarkably blunt and clear-eyes about things like sex, dating, relationship issues, body positivity, etc) but I've always chafed at its celebration as "THE show about Millennials!!" When it really just tracks four privileged New York girls and their experiences. Not that it's a terrible show, it's just it's not a quintessential story of young people like its promoters want you to think it is.

As for Dunham... While I lean towards "some" of her views politically, I chafe at the way she's rocketed to the top of the industry thanks to assists from heavy hitters like Judd Apatow, especially after I read up on her charmed upbringing amongst some of Manhattan's heaviest social hitters and how the New Yorker used to do reports on her extravagant birthday parties. As a child.

[KingSweden]

As for Dunham... While I lean towards "some" of her views politically, I chafe at the way she's rocketed to the top of the industry thanks to assists from heavy hitters like Judd Apatow, especially after I read up on her charmed upbringing amongst some of Manhattan's heaviest social hitters and how the New Yorker used to do reports on her extravagant birthday parties. As a child.

Ugh. Modern pop culture is sick.

The only time I saw Dunham (on a Daily Show episode) she sounded fairly nice and down-to-earth, but apart from that I don't know anything about her. Girls is not the kind of show I'd be interested in personally, but it seems like it could have a good social influence.

Out of all the actresses right now celebrated for their positive feminist influence, I think Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Schumer are both more talented and do more interesting projects than Lena Dunham, and also seem less full of themselves (to me at least). Schumer in particular has impressed me with her range and influence beyond her pretty dark stand-up routine and touches on some of the same body positivity themes that Girls does.

[KingSweden]

J-Law is awesome, yeah. Haven't seen anything with Schumer, but I had a good impression from what I've heard.

Her stand up is great (she was, since I can't vouch for her latest special, basically a female Anthony Jeselnik), her show is solid for a sketch show (though it's no Key and Peele) and Trainwreck was pretty funny.