Lena Dunham: Rape Envy in the New Magical Slut Psychology
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Helen Gurley Brown, America’s first national magical slut, is trending again thanks to Lena Dunham.
We have heard about the magical negro. He or she is the black character whose extraordinary sagacity rescues hapless white people from themselves. But sex consciousness is more foundational than race consciousness. For the past sixty years American society has been revolutionized not by magical black people, but by a far more powerful sexual superhero – the national magical slut. It is the teachings and examples of the male and female promiscuity gurus that fundamentally transformed American society.Hugh Hefner and Helen Gurley Brown were the founding parents of vast entertainment and publishing enterprises devoted to promoting a procession of magical sluts, and America has never been the same. Prior to them there were many actors and writers who had “it.” But
Hefner and Gurley Brown were cultural pioneers, whose unambiguous purposes were to destroy the Judeo-Christian moral code, to separate the privilege of sex from sanctified marriage, and to normalize a view of human beings as all sexual all the time.
Lena Dunham is the new standard-bearer of this enormously lucrative magical slut tradition. But she also represents a transition in the franchise from a purely sexual platform to an emphasis on sex politics, especially the sexual victimization narrative. Her recent rape hoax, in my opinion, featured in her book, is a libel wrapped in a lie surrounded by a myth. In reality, there has been a recent dramatic decrease in campus rapes, and there is no credible evidence that Lena Dunham was ever raped by Barry. ...
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