{"id":2751,"date":"2014-11-10T16:49:05","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T23:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/?p=2751"},"modified":"2014-11-10T16:50:42","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T23:50:42","slug":"art-truth-feminism-jd-salinger-lena-dunham-and-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/10\/art-truth-feminism-jd-salinger-lena-dunham-and-sex\/","title":{"rendered":"Art, Truth, Feminism, JD Salinger, Lena Dunham and Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From Lena Dunham’s Website<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

\u00a0Lena Dunham was just a little older, when she wrote this, than she was in the currently infamous story from her new book; it’s been raging through right-wing and\/or feminist <\/a>(?!) blogs for days. \u00a0If you’ve been offline for the past few days, her new book Not That Kind of Girl<\/a>, includes material about sexual curiosity, sisters, vaginas and sexual limits, all in the form of what were, to many, uncomfortable anecdotes.<\/p>\n

Dunham and her book have been brutalized in the press and on blogs – mostly for telling the truth – a truth which some claim is the sexual abuse of a younger sibling. \u00a0It seemed more like a less-than-attractive set of events and not, to child development experts, worthy of the outrage it generated.<\/p>\n

Beyond that, it’s honest, real and revealing, so: is this cacophony of condemnation how we modern readers reward a writer’s honesty? \u00a0It shouldn’t be – and JD Salinger told us why:<\/p>\n

Since [writing] is your religion, do you know what you will be asked when you die? … I’m so sure you’ll get asked only two questions.’ Were most of your stars out? Were you busy writing your heart out?<\/strong> If only you knew how easy it would be for you to say yes to both questions. If only you’d remember before ever you sit down to write that you’ve been a reader long before you were ever a writer. You simply fix that fact in your mind, then sit very still and ask yourself, as a reader, what piece of writing in all the world Buddy Glass would most want to read if he had his heart’s choice. The next step is terrible, but so simple I can hardly believe it as I write it. You just sit down shamelessly and write the thing yourself<\/strong>. I won’t even underline that. It’s too important to be underlined.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 (Seymour, an Introduction)<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

when\u00a0 From Lena Dunham’s Website \u00a0Lena Dunham was just a little older, when she wrote this, than she was in the currently infamous story from her new book; it’s been raging through right-wing and\/or feminist (?!) blogs for days. \u00a0If you’ve been offline for the past few days, her new book Not That Kind of … Continue reading Art, Truth, Feminism, JD Salinger, Lena Dunham and Sex<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2877,4,5,6,27,1917,9,97,29],"tags":[2812,1353,1354,2857,1293,1765,1500,241,2976,3421,2977,978,2978,261],"class_list":["post-2751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microblogmonday-2","category-baby-boom","category-books","category-culture","category-current-affairs","category-nablopomo","category-politics","category-television","category-women","tag-microblogmonday","tag-book","tag-book-review","tag-child-abuse","tag-feminists","tag-girls","tag-hbo","tag-jd-salinger","tag-lena-dunham","tag-nablopomo","tag-not-that-kind-of-girl","tag-sex","tag-sexual-abuse","tag-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-In","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2751"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3091,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2751\/revisions\/3091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}