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What Lena Dunham's smart HBO series says about 21st-century womanhood.
[ posted 3/15/2013 8:12AM ]
Since Girls majors in embarrassing revelations, here's one: I secretly hope to meet Lena Dunham some day. For all the ways we are worlds apart, we are nonetheless both single, white women in our 20s who like to write and make others laugh. At some point in the conversation, I imagine, the whole Jesus thing would come up, and I could tell of the ways he and his people have kept me deeply rooted in an uncertain decade. But then I would thank her for shaking things up, for creating a show that captures how confusing it can be to be girls in this postfeminist generation—or at least to be a girl, in a generation.
Katelyn Beaty is managing editor of CT.
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Sarah Shaver
you can chew over post-modern philosophy and all that, but here's some reality. i have been happily married since my early 20's, unlike some of my still single friends. we are now in our late 40's and several friends has either abandoned Christ or stopped going to church. they feel they are disregarded by "modern" Evangelical churches which are centered on families and the elderly. my best friend has said that divorced people are treated better than single ones at her church! she has also openly wondered why we abandon single women while Jesus obviously chose key single women for important roles in His ministry. why, indeed. if we are not celebrating our young (and not so young) single people in the Evangelical church, welcoming them and making a place for them at the table, why do we think Ms. Dunham and her admirers will give us a second glance?
J Thomas
Smith, unfortunately the church at large has no bearing on the quality of education that the general American populace holds. The church has effectively been banned from schools and public places and can only get their foot in the door in rural places away from media attention. It is not the church's fault that Americans are increasingly ignorant about Christianity. It's ours for allowing the progressives to isolate us publicly, mock us, and teach our children that Jesus is but a myth to be ignored. But Mohammad...oh no, Mohammad is worthy of receiving time in the classroom. This is our modern paradigm. Wake up, folks.
K. Smith
I saw the first few episodes of Girls, and I'd definitely recommend it to young women - as a what not to do! It's a great example of what mistakes to avoid. As for the church not offering anything to this generation because of the progressive media, that's true, but we as the church need to market the church better by avoiding politics and by preaching the gospel more.