Lena Dunham Raises Eyebrows With Suggestive Ad
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BY CHRISTIAN BRYANT
Lena Dunham, creator and star of the HBO series Girls, opened up in a new campaign ad, recounting exactly how she lost her voting virginity to a certain someone...
“My first time voting was amazing. It was this line in the sand: before, I was a girl. Now, I was a woman. I went to the polling station, I pulled back the curtain and I voted for Barack Obama.”
...You get the analogy. The video premiered on the official BarackObamadotcom YouTube page Thursday and has already garnered nearly 300,000 views.
As comedic as it may have been to some, Lena Dunham posted this tweet to set the record straight about purpose of the video: voting for women’s health.
In the same vein as Dunham’s tweet, CNN contributor Ron Brownstein said the “edgy” video also gets at the issue of appealing to younger female voters.
“I think this is a sign of some concern about the level of engagement of younger single women who tend to be very democratic when they vote, but getting them to vote is the key.”
This week, Politico reported President Obama is trying to regain his lead amongst women voters after sliding some. Women’s health is one of the more talked about topics of this election season and sources say that’s why the Obama campaign is reaching out to female voters in the final days before the election.
Conservatives aren’t so amused with the President’s campaign team, calling Dunham’s ad “tasteless” and “degrading” to women.
A writer for conservative blog Breitbart.com said:
“If this ad were any more demeaning to women... it would be produced by Bill Maher and star Bill Clinton.”
Conservative author Michelle Malkin took to her own website to criticize the ad, saying it seems a bit off-key considering more pressing issues:
“$ 16 trillion in debt. 8 percent unemployment. ... And the Obama campaign is seriously pimping an elite young filmmaker/actress’s indulgent ad gushing about Obama’s big hands, her birth control, and Lilly Ledbetter? Seriously?”
This isn’t Dunham’s only political ad for this election. On Monday, she and several other female artists lip-synched Lesley Gore’s “You Don’t Own Me” in a mash-up video encouraging women to get out and vote.
One writer for Entertainment Weekly said the new ads could be a good thing for the president’s re-election prospects, or it “could equally turn off older voters who like their celeb endorsements more straightforward.”
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