Lena Dunham writes for Buzzfeed and desperately tries to deflect her false rape claim: Why I Chose To Speak Out

baserace · 2014-12-10T09:31:07+00:00

The fact she chose to not clear Barry One's name earlier, either:

preemptively at publication when it's clear his name wasn't footnoted as a pseudonym
when Barry One first started getting hassle
when Barry One was clearly going through hell

...but waited until he was raising money for legal costs.

Disgusting, inhumane behaviour.

Nomenimion · 2014-12-10T10:23:47+00:00

Claiming to be a sexual abuse victim seems to be an almost mandatory rite of passage for women these days. It's the only way to get anyone to pay attention and take you seriously.

capnuck · 2014-12-10T13:30:55+00:00

If she writes for Buzzfeed, shouldn't the name of her article be something like:
"10 reasons why I really am a rape victim you just won't believe!"

lethatis · 2014-12-10T12:12:10+00:00

Here's the archive https://archive.today/G7gKN

As indicated in the beginning of the book, I made the choice to keep certain identities private, changing names and some descriptive details. To be very clear, “Barry” is a pseudonym, not the name of the man who assaulted me, and any resemblance to a person with this name is an unfortunate and surreal coincidence. I am sorry about all he has experienced.

That's about the most laughable nopology I have ever encountered. Bitch needs to get sued into oblivion.

50PercentLies · 2014-12-10T09:10:06+00:00

She is doing so much backpedaling she is going to end up in the previous century.

Watermelon_Salesman · 2014-12-10T10:13:32+00:00

This woman summarizes everything that's wrong with contemporary feminists.

She'll do anything to get attention. She'll say she was sexually abused only to get her victim membership card. She'll yell "rape" and not go to the police, which only means she takes the crime lightly.

She thinks her own actions are beyond reproach, as her own molesting of her sister is not even mentioned. She's a disgusting human being.

I think real rape should be punished with the death penalty, but first we must remember that there is such a thing as real rape and made-up shit, which is something feminists like herself want to pretend doesn't exist.

As for the whole victim-blaming rhetoric, it all comes down to a difference between Rousseau and Hobbes. One will say that human beings are naturally pure, and society turns them bad. The others acknowledge that the state of nature is a state of war and conflict.

There will always be bad people around. Out best efforts will never be enough to erradicate evil. With that in mind, I see no harm in telling people they must always take care and have an eye looking over their shoulder. That means it's not your own fault you were sexually assaulted after ingesting massive amounts of vodka, cocaine, mushrooms and weed, but it certainly was a very dumb thing to do, and that must always be pointed out.

It makes more sense, and it's much more practical and fair, to instill individual reponsibility on people. I have, in the past, interacted with people who were drunk, stoned, and did not look like it. I've had entire conversations with people who appeared sober, but couldn't remember a single word the next day.

What does that say about a guy that has sex with a woman in that state of mind? She's drunk. She doesn't look or act like it. She wakes up and doesn't even remember meeting him. She yells rape, but is it really the man's fault?

SweetiePieJonas · 2014-12-10T13:02:08+00:00

I can't wait until this privileged, mendacious hack finally gets her comeuppance. It looks like it may be soon; I am hearing lots of people talking shit about her lately in a "why is she even famous?" sort of way.

5th_Law_of_Robotics · 2014-12-10T13:45:33+00:00

Why I chose to speak out...I really really wanted the attention.

floyd2168 · 2014-12-10T12:33:21+00:00

What is the back story with this?

tehwankingwalruses · 2014-12-10T11:33:21+00:00

This woman is a pedophile. Why does anyone care what she says or thinks?

Tarnsman4Life · 2014-12-10T13:27:35+00:00

Considering feminists almost never apologize she must be really afraid of getting the ~~pants~~ ugly hipster dress sued off of her.

Clockw0rk · 2014-12-10T14:47:29+00:00

Anyone that has ever given that monster any sort of soap box to preach her lies and hate from should be painfully embarrassed.

Shame on the US media for turning shit birds like this into celebrities. You didn't check your sources, and now you've turned a compulsive liar/pedophile into a fucking role model.

It honestly makes me feel ill.

uberpower · 2014-12-10T16:13:20+00:00

55 uses of the pronoun "I" . . . that encapsulates her self-absorbed spoiled liberal brat world view perfectly.

MrMagwitch · 2014-12-10T15:48:44+00:00

myalias1 · 2014-12-10T13:37:12+00:00

Too bad I don't see this posted and being discussed elsewhere...

Gawrsh · 2014-12-10T13:27:39+00:00

If she chose to speak out in a book that she's selling to millions; she can choose to speak out again in order to let police know who this person is. Her details were specific enough that they could lead authorities to someone on campus.

It's not just about her, it's about the other potential victims of the person in her book. The same victims she and other feminists claim to be wanting to help.

And if that person isn't real, then instead of hiding behind actual people who've suffered, taking away from them, both her and those feminists need to be honest and say so.

vendilion · 2014-12-10T17:04:46+00:00

Lena Dunham is literal trash.

Get a load of the deflecting here though. She knows she's caught. She's guilty as sin.

Considering she is a sexual abuser herself, it's disgusting that she would pretend to be the victim of sexual abuse.

Arakin · 2014-12-10T17:21:11+00:00

Seriously, she's fucking nuts. Absolutely fucking nuts.

2014-12-10T18:09:49+00:00

"Speaking out was never about exposing the man who assaulted me."

No it was because your lawyers told you this guy would prevail in a defamation lawsuit.

sizzletron · 2014-12-10T12:36:57+00:00

My thoughts

Edit: The fucking DOPEY look on her face.... THAT is your hero, Feminism!

Helmut_Newton · 2014-12-10T14:57:31+00:00

I can only hope that this Dunham nonsense, and the Rolling Stone brouhaha means that we have reached "Peak Rape Culture Hysteria".

BluSkyHeisenberg · 2014-12-10T16:22:13+00:00

Lena Dunham is a real piece of shit and pedophile. We need to stop giving her the attention she feeds on, it is all she has. She is a hack and waste of fame.

aegorrivers · 2014-12-10T18:10:08+00:00

Isn't this the woman who sexually assaulted her sister by shoving marbles up her vagina and then defended it by claiming that she didn't actually do it, but that the one year old who probably had no clue what a vagina was did it?

CellularPeptideCake · 2014-12-10T18:20:23+00:00

What a coincidence! Man, that campus must have had a lot of moustached, cowboy boot wearing, conservative radio hosts named Barry. Sounds like a weird place.

theskepticalidealist · 2014-12-10T16:32:00+00:00

Hey listen to how me being sexually assaulted harmed me, but acting like a sexual predator towards my 11 year old sister when I was 17 is just "queer" and you're a bigot if you have a problem with it

anillop · 2014-12-10T16:51:06+00:00

Wait isn't this the same person who more or less admitted to molesting her sister in the same book? I guess the best way to keep from being accused of being a predator is to accuse someone else of being a worse predator.

Vietnom · 2014-12-10T17:23:42+00:00

It's almost like this was written to be intentionally frustrating for Men's Rights people. Like she uses all the buzzwords and refuses to take an culpability whatsoever, or to consider the plight of the confused. If the guy Barry was wrongly accused, she refuses to even acknowledge the pain she put him through.

wilson_at_work · 2014-12-10T17:33:30+00:00

I like that the comments aren't supporting her.

outcastded · 2014-12-10T18:04:13+00:00

Can someone please recap this for me? I obviously need to now more than what's in this article to get this.

Did she lie about being raped? Or not?

And I see comments about something about her sibling, and someone calling her a pedophile?

What's the story here?

jokersmild · 2014-12-11T05:31:33+00:00

I can't wait till she runs for office... She seems to have all of the qualifications.

masturbator9000 · 2014-12-11T08:50:59+00:00

I think it's funny how so many of the people in the comment section defending Dunham and taking the position of "rape is rape, we should take it seriously no matter what" would turn around in the blink of an eye and shit on LaBoeuf's Rape Claims from not too long ago, saying he's just looking for attention.

So far I have more reason to believe LaBoeuf than Dunham, based on what I know about both of them.

morven · 2014-12-10T17:52:42+00:00

Given the description she gave was so detailed, I really doubt that there's another guy who matches it. So I think she DID describe him.

Which leads to two possibilities that I see.

Either she is, actually, accusing this guy but is pretending it wasn't him now she is threatened with a lawsuit;

Or, she used his attributes for a fictitious description. Now, this doesn't mean that the experience itself was made up, necessarily, but she cast this real man as the culprit in her retelling.

DancesWithPugs · 2014-12-11T11:49:06+00:00

There's just not enough evidence to know what happened. The analysis and speculation is interesting, but let's not jump to conclusions.

Being falsely accused of rape is horrendous, but being falsely accused of being a false accuser doesn't sound fun either.

It's often a good idea to suspend belief when facing inconclusive circumstances.

Title	Lena Dunham writes for Buzzfeed and desperately tries to deflect her false rape claim: Why I Chose To Speak Out
Author	WhippingBoys
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Date	December 10, 2014 8:29 AM UTC (11 years ago)
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