June 14, 2012   28 notes

“ Implying that any medium could adequately represent a particular gender is not only supremely simplistic and sexist—it’s also the underlying problem in all of the Girls critiques that say the show isn’t diverse enough. Girls was built up to be a shred of hope for a feminist-positive TV revolution. And that’s kind of what it is. ”

Carly Lewis, The Sexist Backlash Against HBO’s Girls