It has become a tired running joke that whenever “Lena Dunham” is trending, it’s because she has done something offensive. As it turned out, this time she had found an accomplice in The Hollywood Reporter, whose editorial team inexplicably selected Dunham to guest-edit its women in entertainment issue. Although thankfully the fallout from my own rape didn’t play out in the public eye, I had already learned in the most painful way possible that self-proclaimed feminists and allies aren’t necessarily going to support rape victims. Was it because she thought I lied, or was it because she secretly thought my rape wasn’t that big a deal? Sometimes I wonder how our society is still in such a terrible place when it comes to the treatment of rape survivors.

Source: Huffington Post December 10, 2018 17:48 UTC