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Essay / Analysis of the HBO Show Girls - 1851
For me, and many others on the Internet, it's exhilarating to see Dunham, who doesn't fit the mold of conventional beauty, be naked all the time. Although not everyone is on board with Dunham revealing so much of her body. Howard Stern said of Dunham: "She's a little fat girl who looks like Jonah Hill and she keeps taking her clothes off and it kind of looks like rape...it's like I don't want to see that,” Stern also added that he was “brave” for monitoring her (Krantz). Rachel Krantz concludes her article, “Enough about Lena Dunham's ass! saying, "And maybe it's not the cellulite we find terrifying when we look at Dunham's butt, but the fact that she's there, in the world of television, looking just like us." At least I know that's why I love watching this show. I see a woman on television whose body looks more like mine than any other woman I have seen. In Madison Clark's undergraduate honors thesis, "Finding a Place in Feminist Television History: Sexuality in HBO's 'Girls,'" she states, "the series set a new precedent for the representation of female sexuality by choosing to include scenes that offer a contradiction to the well-known omission of unflattering sexual positions or after intercourse” (24). Aside from Dunham's Hannah being naked a good portion of the time, she isn't always naked in flattering positions as Clark states.