I believe in a lot of things but the first tenet of my politics is to hold up the people who have held me up, who have filled my world with love.
Dunham has done something bad. Activists, writers, sexual abuse survivors, and famed personalities tweet at Dunham. Asia Argento: “You wrote me an email of support a few weeks ago and now you defend a rapist? WTF @lenadunham?”
Dunham has done something good! On Saturday, she issued an apology. She tweets: “As feminists, we live and die by our politics, and believing women is the first choice we make every single day [emphasis mine] when we wake up. Therefore I never thought I would issue a statement publically [sic] supporting someone accused of sexual assault, but I naively believed it was important to share my perspective [emphasis mine] on my friend’s situation as it has transpired behind the scenes over the last few months.”
And adds a lesson: “Every person and every feminist should be required to hear her. Under patriarchy, ‘I believe you’ is essential.”
The full statement here.
Unfamous women continue to do things.
Kim Kardashian West is reportedly preparing to divorce Kanye West, according to
Life & Style. “It’s officially over,” they hear from an insider. As proof supposedly, Kim went to Serena Williams’s wedding alone, but maybe this has to do with the fact that Kanye and Jay-Z are
not friends right now because Beyoncé also went alone. They met over the bar. It was fine.
Contemplating the life of a TMZ reporter: every day you arrive at the Los Angeles International Airport with a ticket to nowhere. Day after day, you must trudge through the security check-in line and arrive into the monotony of LAX to scan the terminals for famous people who hate you. TSA knows you; maybe you have a rapport.
Maybe we’ll try Terminal 4 today, one thinks, as the people pass you by and a traveller on standby gets a nice surprise, to go home or maybe Hawaii or whatever destination is on your TMZ ticket. How often do you see a celebrity in real life? Maybe it just doesn’t happen today. Maybe someday you’ll take that flight.
Today’s get is Cardi B, who swats away wedding questions. Ho hum.
- Actress Ann Wedgeworth, who played Lana Shields on Three’s Company, has died at age 83. [Page Six]
- The art director on the animated show The Cops, on which Louis CK voices a lead role, has written a letter on the cardboard box he has used to take his belongings out of the office. He writes that a whole team of employees “find ourselves out of a job right before the holiday season,” thanks to his actions. TBS and FX Productions are reportedly thinking about how to reshuffle the show to keep it on air. [Page Six]
- The Queen rides a pony! [Daily Mail]
