Lena Dunham is a rich, white, Tawana Brawley
Well of course she'd have to make something up if she never actually was raped. She needs feminist cred to sell books, and since all sex is rape anyway, she just had to pick her least favorite sexual experience and voilà! Instant rape.
Bizarrely, it seems like the "rape" never really took place, or it wasn't really rape. I'm not going to include the graphic details here; you can read them in the Breitbart article. If everything did go down the way she describes, i.e., she wanted to have sex but this guy got too rough, then it's a good illustration of why a 19-year-old woman shouldn't have sex with a stranger she just met. But this wouldn't be "realistic" in the liberal feminist worldview.
This article takes a while to read, but it is worth it to know just how hard Nolte and the Breitbart crew attempted to discover the identity of the rapist. Sadly her naming this person "Barry" indicates an actual person--it is not a pseudonym--and his name is now smeared with a false accusation.
“This man is by all accounts (including his own) innocent.”
Nolte noted that the man now “has to hide his Facebook page and retain an attorney” in the wake of Dunham’s book.
He said that while Dunham has pointed “her powerful finger” at the man accusing him of rape, she “has yet to clear his name.”
Having watched a friend of mine be falsely accused of rape, I would like to see this Barry guy work up some type of libel case against Dunham. I know that it would be pretty hard, but at least it might draw attention to her unreliability and to the fact that Random House is enabling felonious behavior on the part of a powerful individual against a falsely-accused, innocent man.
Funny that she named him "Barry". Calls to mind the composite girlfriend that another guy named Barry concocted.
ReplyDeleteIt's yet another episode in the long-running saga of "fake but accurate".
I once heard a radio interview with E. Howard Hunt, then making a satisfactory living writing spy fiction. He said he had once sued rpublication or auth over a particular false statement (he lost, for the usual reasons people do) and said you could never persuade him to have anything to do with a defamation suit ever again. The deck is so stacked in favor of the media that the best you can do is a pyrrhic victory.
ReplyDeleteOne thing I recall is that people's standards of public dignity were such in 1959 that Charles van Doren's could hardly show his face in public thereafter and was employed for decades at Encyclopaedia Britannica) because Mortimer Adler was the only one who would hire him.
ReplyDeleteWe have prominent politicians (Joseph Biden and Elizabeth Warren) who've done something at least as clownish as Dr. Van Doren and they continue on in public life without skipping a beat. Lena Dunham will be uninjured by her confabulations.
The invitation for you to blog here is still open, Art. Just email me.
DeleteIt appears Barry One is starting a legal defense fund to sue Dunham. Jonathan Carpenter
ReplyDeletehttp://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2014/12/06/barry-one-launches-legal-fund-considers-suit-against-lena-dunham