By the time Dunham made her statement in defense of Miller this past weekend, there were several asterisks attached to her public feminist label: white feminist, often casually racist feminist, feminist who has not embraced intersectionality, feminist who potentially molested her little sister, feminist who gets more passes than she maybe deserves.
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But for Wortham, the fact that Girls was good made its overwhelming whiteness even worse, especially since it was set in Brooklyn, one of the most diverse places in the country.
Given that history, many people are no longer willing to give Dunham the benefit of the doubt for her actions.