Interview · moment 22 of 23

Closeted Prep School Kids and Lena Dunham's Downtown Cool

from Rich Cunt with Hailey Sacks · #119

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2 min

Guest

Discussion of casual homosexuality assumptions at elite boarding schools, Haley's Upper West Side upbringing versus the 'cool downtown girl,' and her complicated admiration/fat-shaming take on Lena Dunham.

In this bit8 moments
  • 1:03:35Questions about casual homosexuality at boarding schools and private schools among the wealthy.
  • 1:03:51Tim says the gay guy at school always seemed straight and would try to hook up with people.
  • 1:04:10Description of the cool downtown girl archetype: adorexic, leather jacket, cigarettes, lived near Sarah Jessica Parker.
  • 1:04:27Tim brings up Lena Dunham and Jemima Kirk as examples of that downtown cool world.
  • 1:04:38Guest dismisses Lena Dunham as trite, lacking the metal force to be a true superstar.
  • 1:04:57Tim mentions dating a girl from Flanders who went to Marymount, an Upper East Side school.
  • 1:05:18Tim's observation about chubby girls with hot boyfriends breaking up and wondering if the boyfriend was pursuing a fetish.
  • 1:05:30Guest admits to fat shaming and blames it on how she was raised.
Mentioned here

Lena DunhamLady GagaSarah Jessica ParkerJemima Kirk

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