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Lena Dunham slams Kanye West's 'Famous' video

'GIRLS' writer Lena Dunham has described Kanye West's new music video for 'Famous' as "one of the more disturbing 'artistic' efforts in recent memory." 

She shared a lengthy Facebook post on the promo clip, which shows versions of Taylor Swift, Rihanna and Chris Brown in bed together, and revealed that it's a vile piece of pop culture that she has no time for:

"I can’t watch it ... if it feels informed and inspired by the aspects of our culture that make women feel unsafe even in their own beds, in their own bodies [...] Let's break it down: at the same time Brock Turner is getting off with a light tap for raping an unconscious woman and photographing her breasts for a group chat..."

"As assaults are Periscoped across the web and girls commit suicide after being exposed in ways they never imagined... While Bill Cosby's crimes are still being uncovered and understood as traumas for the women he assaulted but also massive bruises to our national consciousness... Now I have to see the prone, unconscious, waxy bodies of famous women, twisted like they've been drugged and chucked aside at a rager?"

Dunham added: "I'm sure that Bill Cosby doll being in the bed alongside Donald Trump is some kind of statement, that I'm probably being trolled on a super high level. I know that there’s a hipper or cooler reaction to have than the one I'm currently having. But guess what? I don't have a hip cool reaction, because seeing a woman I love like Taylor Swift (fuck that one hurt to look at, I couldn't look), a woman I admire like Rihanna or Anna, reduced to a pair of waxy breasts made by some special effects guy in the Valley, it makes me feel sad and unsafe and worried for the teenage girls who watch this and may not understand that grainy roving camera as the stuff of snuff films."

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