Lena Dunham: GOP Senate could affect your sex life

[mystery-ak]

http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/218911-lena-dunham-gop-senate-could-affect-your-sex-life



By Elise Viebeck - 09/25/14 01:38 PM EDT

Actress Lena Dunham is urging fans to vote Democratic this November with a warning that Republican Senate candidates like Rep. Cory Gardner (Colo.) and Thom Tillis (N.C.) could affect their sex lives.

The creator and star of HBO's Girls name-checked two other GOP candidates — Alaska's Dan Sullivan and Iowa's Joni Ernst — in an email Thursday to Planned Parenthood Action Fund supporters.


"I vote because the number of backwards, out-of-touch, downright freaking unbelievably anti-women's health politicians out there right now makes my blood boil," Dunham wrote.

"The crazy and depressing truth is that there are people running for office right now who could actually affect your life. PARTICULARLY your sex life. PARTICULARLY if you're a woman."

The email is Dunham's first political message of the 2014 cycle on behalf of Planned Parenthood's political arm. In 2012, she made waves for cutting a television ad for President Obama that described her vote as "my first time."

"The first time shouldn't be with just anybody. You want to do it with a great guy," Dunham told the camera. "Someone who really cares about and understands women."

Thursday's email referred to GOP candidates' positions on the Hobby Lobby decision, ObamaCare, the minimum wage and the Violence Against Women Act.

[mystery-ak]

Honey...In your case the GOP Senate has nothing to do with your lack of a sex life..

[jmyrlefuller]

Well, when we have a birth-rate crisis as big as America has right now, maybe it's time to start looking at the policies affecting people's sex lives.

Of course the wealthy bourgeois types like Dunham don't think that having children is a necessary part of life, and that sex is something to be done for leisure. Those types used to be called some less than flattering names. Now it's called normal.

Modern American society, in a nutshell.

[truth_seeker]

Here is a non-exhaustive list of recent GOP candidates that oppose abortion in cases of rape, a very unpopular position, and lost their elections:

Angle, Mourdock, Akin, O'Donnell, Miller, Buck, West, Paladino, Walsh

A Gallup poll found that only 22% of those polled believed women should be prevented by law from abortions in cases of rape.

It is on such bases, that people like this young woman conclude Republicans hold views outside the mainstream, and so warn.

I'm sure that it would be even less than 22% for females and for younger voters.

[Atomic Cow]

Dunham is proof that there are some men who have such low standards that they would have sex with anything.

[jmyrlefuller]

Here is a non-exhaustive list of recent GOP candidates that oppose abortion in cases of rape, a very unpopular position, and lost their elections:

Angle, Mourdock, Akin, O'Donnell, Miller, Buck, West, Paladino, Walsh

A Gallup poll found that only 22% of those polled believed women should be prevented by law from abortions in cases of rape.

It is on such bases, that people like this young woman conclude Republicans hold views outside the mainstream, and so warn.

I'm sure that it would be even less than 22% for females and for younger voters.

Irrelevant to the topic at hand. Roe v. Wade has already established that the right to an abortion, rape or no rape, is beyond the scope of the legislature. Stall tactics are all any pro-life legislature can do, and most of that has been at the state level.

And a brief correction: although Paladino does indeed oppose abortion in the case of rape, he explicitly stated he would not take any legislative action on the topic had he been elected.

[truth_seeker]

Irrelevant to the topic at hand. Roe v. Wade has already established that the right to an abortion, rape or no rape, is beyond the scope of the legislature. Stall tactics are all any pro-life legislature can do, and most of that has been at the state level.

And a brief correction: although Paladino does indeed oppose abortion in the case of rape, he explicitly stated he would not take any legislative action on the topic had he been elected.

Of course it is relevant. Are you able to grasp the connection with candidates taking unpopular positions, and their election losses?

[ABX]

Accidently flipping over to HBO when Dunham is naked on Girls would do far more to ruin someone's sex life..

[alicewonders]

Accidently flipping over to HBO when Dunham is naked on Girls would do far more to ruin someone's sex life..

For sure AbaraXas!  For one thing, I was not aware that this Dunham womyn had sex with MEN.  Just looking at her picture would make any man.....uh, can we say "shrinkage"?

[PzLdr]

From someone whose "steady" is probably a 9 volt battery, that's a bit rich.

[ABX]

From someone whose "steady" is probably a 9 volt battery, that's a bit rich.

Worse, she found a hipster.

[PzLdr]

Worse, she found a hipster.

Looks like she found Tweedle Dee's brother. What does that hoople do for a living? Lawn Jockey?

[alicewonders]

Worse, she found a hipster.

That's a guy?

[GourmetDan]

Well, when we have a birth-rate crisis as big as America has right now, maybe it's time to start looking at the policies affecting people's sex lives.

Of course the wealthy bourgeois types like Dunham don't think that having children is a necessary part of life, and that sex is something to be done for leisure. Those types used to be called some less than flattering names. Now it's called normal.

Modern American society, in a nutshell.

You got it, Jimmy...

[mountaineer]

  Just looking at her picture would make any man.....uh, can we say "shrinkage"?

That's what I was thinking. She should go to overpopulated Third World countries and take off her clothes. Voila! Instant contraceptive.

[ABX]

Looks like she found Tweedle Dee's brother. What does that hoople do for a living? Lawn Jockey?

His name is Jack Antonoff (say that really fast three times and try not to chuckle), and he is an indie musician. Really lame, sounds like a cookie cutter of every other indie hipster musician out there that plays at coffee shops for dimes.