Lena Dunham has slammed Kanye West's new music video as an attack on women and 'one of the most disturbing 'artistic' efforts in recent memory'.

The Girls star said the Famous video - which features synthetic versions of West and wife Kim Kardashian, Taylor Swift, Donald Trump and more naked in bed together - made her feel 'sad and unsafe and worried for the teenage girls'.

In a lengthy Facebook post sent Monday, Dunham joined the choir of haters who have lined up to critique West's latest offering. 




'One of the more disturbing 'artistic' efforts in recent memory,': Lena Dunham, pictured on Monday in New York, has written a lengthy blog post slamming Kanye West's new video for Famous





Losing friends: Lena's review of the video follows her pal Swift who was said to be 'mad as hell' at the rapper for using a naked lookalike wax figure of her in his Famous music video





Famous people: Kanye has kept mum on who was real and who was fake in this orgy scene from his Famous music video that includes visages of, L to R, Rihanna, Chris Brown, Taylor, Kanye, Kim, Ray J and Amber Rose







She prefaced her post by saying she admired the whole West/ Kardashian family and loved the way they depict women as better in numbers and masters of their own destiny' - but that this didn't stop her from disliking the video. 

Dunham said that as well it falling short artistically, the 'disturbing' video came at time of a deep unease for women across the world. 

Citing the controversial Brock Turner sentencing, the prevalence of assaults filmed on Periscope, girls committing suicide for being exposed and the unraveling Bill Crosby trial, Dunham argued that the video only added to the negative noise.




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'Now I have to see the prone, unconscious, waxy bodies of famous women, free gay porn twisted like they've been drugged and chucked aside at a rager?,' she wrote.  

Dunham added that she didn't care if she wasn't having a 'hip cool reaction' because seeing women - in particular her good friend Taylor Swift or those she admired like Rihanna or Anna Wintour - reduced to a 'pair of waxy breasts made by some special effects guy in the Valley' was the 'stuff of snuff films'.


She acknowledged that West was 'cool' but pleaded with him to make a statement on the Illuminati without propping up aspects of popular culture that 'make women feel unsafe even in their own beds, in their own bodies'. 





Listen: The rapper debuted his song Famous for the first time at his Yeezy 3 fashion show on February 11 and everyone heard the lyrics 'I feel like me and Taylor might have hardcore sex/ Why? I made that b***h famous'









'A woman I admire reduced to a pair of waxy breasts made by some special effects guy up in the Valley' Lena didn't hold back as she described her disgust at Kanye's creation

Along with her lengthy post she attached a photo of a cake with the German phrase 'Alles Liebe' (All the best) written in icing.

'Y'all, I'm so sick of showing up to the party angry. But at least I brought cake.' she joked.

But Speaking to Vanity Fair, West claimed that the video was not in support or against anyone, but merely a comment on fame.  

He even went as far as to say that famous friends who didn't feature 'wished they were in the bed'.

It is clear though, grandma sex that he was waiting for the condemnation to start building and even went as far as to tweet on Saturday: 'Can somebody sue me already #I'll wait.' 


No-one is yet to take him up on his offer but Swift is said to be 'strategizing with her team as to what her next move should be.'

A source told HollywoodLife.com: 'Taylor is furious after seeing Kanye's video. She feels like she's been assaulted.' 


LENA DUNHAM'S CRITIQUE OF 'FAMOUS' VIDEO IN full sexy movie 

Peeking From Between My Fingers: some disjointed thoughts on the 'Famous' video

Like many pop culture addicted Americans, I wait with bated breath for what Kanye West will do next. Aside from his Twitter mayhem, he has created some really 'next level shit' as the kids would say. I could also happily watch Kim Kardashian West chip the paint off a window ledge for hours and new hd porn be fascinated. I admire that whole family, love the way they depict women as better in numbers and masters of their own destiny. I'd spend all summer at Kamp Kardashian. Here is more regarding private porn have a look at the internet site. But it's possible to hold two competing thoughts in your mind and the Famous video is one of the more disturbing 'artistic' efforts in recent memory.

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.

I was raised in the art world by a dad who painted aggro scenes of sexuality and war and a horny mom who, ironically enough, has photographed some butt naked life-sized dolls of her own. I live porn for free video sex the nude rabble rousing of Carolee Schneemann and Hannah Wilke, for Kathy Acker's arty ts porn, for Paul McCarthy's gnomes with butt plugs and Vito Acconci masturbating under the gallery floor and Carrie Mae Weems shedding a blinding light on the pleasures and terrors of black womanhood. If it's been banned, I'll probably love it. Because I know that art's job is to make us think in ways that aren't always tidy or comfortable. But this feels different.

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 (fuck 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. I hesitated a lot about saying anything cuz I figured the thinkpieces would come pouring in. But I didn't see this angle being explored as much as I had hoped. It's weird to feel like you're watching alone. I bet I'm not.

Here's the thing, Kanye: you're cool. Make a statement on fame and privacy and the Illuminati or whatever is on your mind! But I can't watch it, don't want to watch it, if it feels informed and inspired by the aspects of our culture that make women feel unsafe even in their own beds, in their own bodies.

Y'all, I'm so sick of showing up to the party angry. But at least I brought cake.




 



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Taylor and x hamster live Kanye's turbulent history goes back to the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards when he burst on stage during her award acceptance speech and took the microphone away

Kanye was perhaps referencing that incident when he wrote a line about 'Taylor' in his song Famous.

'I feel like me and Taylor might have gay sex videos/ Why? I made that b***h famous,' Kanye rapped.

At the time, Taylor didn't approve of the lyrics' 'strong misogynistic message' and told Kanye as much, while Kanye claimed he 'did not diss Taylor Swift' and had her okay, according to Entertainment Weekly.











Controversial star: Kanye remained straight-faced as he arrived at his Calabasas office on Monday

Meanwhile singer Ray J - who also features in the video next to a sleeping Kim - has slammed the offereing for being 'not cool.'

He told Entertainment Tonight that his fiancee, Princess Love, is especially upset about the video: 'I'm engaged. My marriage is all messed up 'cause of craziness. I'm not part of nothing crazy.

'I walk down a good path. My fiancée tripping. It's all bad in my world, and that ain't cool.'

Kim Kardashian famously dated Ray long before she married West and the pair made a hot gay sex tape that leaked in 2007.  


Kanye debuted the tune at his Yeezy 3 show during New York Fashion Week on February 11. 




Swift plot: sex tube The 26-year-old pop star is apparently 'planning something' and 'trying to figure out how to respond' to Kanye's shocking move, according to the news site 





G-rated? Kanye joined wife Kim Kardashian and their daughter North, three, on a trip to see a movie




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