Lena Dunham pens essay about Kanye West’s Famous video: ‘It’s sickening’

Hitting out: Lena Dunham has slammed Kanye West's Famous video
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Jennifer Ruby28 June 2016
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Lena Dunham has dubbed Kanye West’s new video for single Famous ‘sickening’.

The Girls star, whose good friend Taylor Swift is mimicked in the video, has slammed the rapper for reducing the women she admires to ‘a pair of waxy breasts made some visual effects guy.”

In a lengthy message posted on her Facebook page, the 30-year-old expressed her admiration for West and the Kardashians but said that she found the video ‘sad’ and ‘unsafe’.

She wrote: “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? It gives me such a sickening sense of dis-ease.”

She 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 (f*** 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.”

West released his controversial new video, featuring a series of wax models of naked celebrities, over the weekend.

Clearly predicting some sort of backlash, he later tweeted then deleted: “Can somebody sue me already #I’llwait.”

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