<p>I watch it. While the girls have very different stereo-typed personalities, I imagine the show is pretty close to reality for those four types of girls with the exception of Lena’s character who apparently doesn’t work for much money and also no longer has parental support.</p>
<p>As the mother of two twenty-something daughters I watched at the beginning of the first season. I am pretty liberal, try to stay current on most trends and events. After the first show I didn’t get it. Watched the second show and thought it was terrible and didn’t bother to tune in for the rest of the season. My girls hadn’t heard of the show when I asked them about it. When the show was getting such critical acclaim and winning awards I thought I must have missed something and decided to go back and force myself to watch the first season in its entirety. Thought it was the biggest waste of time! Some of my friends have watched one or two of the shows and thought it was terrible. My book club discussed the show and we laughed as we compared it to The Emperor’s New Clothes. 
Had D1 watch one of the shows and she thought it was awful and degrading and couldn’t name one of her friends that were like the characters in the show. Maybe we don’t get the NYC stereotypes here. ;)</p>
<p>I watched a couple of episodes to see what all the hype was about. I could take it or leave it as a show, but I refuse to support Lena Dunham’s career in any way considering how clearly racist she (and her show) are. If you haven’t heard about this, a simple Google search for “Lena Dunham racist comments” or something will suffice. And I don’t buy the BS that the show is her experiences and her life so it’s somehow okay if there’s no diversity in it. She has made it clear that she thinks that racist jokes and commentary are okay coming from a “quirky” girl like her. Furthermore, I grew up in New York City, and if you are 24 and living in Brooklyn it is fundamentally inconceivable that not a single person in your life is anything other than middle class and white.</p>
<p>^Another reason I don’t find the show realistic. </p>
<p>I reeeeeeaaaalllllyyyyy hope girls irl aren’t that vapid.</p>
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<p>She has a black boyfriend on the show and dumps him not because he is black but because he is a Republican. You don’t know the woman and clearly cannot define her as a racist.</p>
<p>Yes, I watch. And I cringe. More so, in the second season. I feel like she took all the criticism about her, her body, etc. and now throws it back in the critics faces as a huge F U. More power to her.</p>
<p>P.S. I believe the black boyfriend was another middle finger to those who allege that she is a racist.</p>
<p>I watch it, I cringe and I thinks it’s fantastic. D and I talk about this show A LOT. I understand why some people don’t “get it”. But it is the one and only show that I look forward to. (that is until Game of Thrones or Sherlock comes back.)</p>
<p>Ha. D just texted me from the airport, she has a four hour layover, was comped a pass to the executive lounge since she is flying business class.</p>
<p>text:" Sure that all these 40 somethings saw GIRLS last night. Nothing worse than marrieds offering drinks at a bar where they are already free."</p>
<p>I thought I had watched it on netflix but I must have seen it on amazon. Is season 2 available anywhere besides HBO?</p>
<p>Because all of you are making me think it is going to be pretty important to keep up with if I want to have any chance of staying culturally literate.</p>
<p>:( No you have to wait till the season is over.</p>
<p>FYI: she as a day long affair with this guy
<a href=“Girls Season 2: Episode 5 Clip - A Real Trashy Move - YouTube”>www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgfUTYMO3WE</a></p>
<p>I love this show. I grew up in Brooklyn and my 24-year-old daughter lives in Brooklyn. I feel the show uses exaggeration to touch on certain truths about the challenges girls face during their transitional early twenties. Alh-you can watch missed shows on HBO Go.</p>
<p>razorsharp - What the actual ****. </p>
<p>[Does</a> Lena Dunham’s “casual racism” matter?](<a href=“http://feministing.com/2012/08/14/does-it-matter-if-lena-dunham-is-a-casual-racist/]Does”>Does Lena Dunham’s “casual racism” matter?) </p>
<p>Lena Dunham is racist. The end. I wish she wasn’t because I could like her a little more.</p>
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It’s a credit to Dunham and the episode’s writer, Jenni Konner, that the scene is so unsettling. If they had responded to the controversy over Girls and race by quietly casting a famous black actor and pretending nothing more needed to be said, they might have looked just as na</p>
<p>The racist comments annoy me slightly a lot. If you don’t like the show, don’t watch it. I don’t watch Tyler Perry movies and complain about the stereotypical white people in them.</p>
<p>"But I’m also a fan of Laura Dern’s character in Enlightened which airs in the same hour slot. "</p>
<p>I like Enlightened even more than Girls.</p>
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<p>That’s a pretty weak argument to conclude someone is racist. Saying someone is racist is not something that should be said so casually as you say it and as poorly as the link says it. Artistic people often see the world differently and trying to presume what they are thinking when you don’t even know them is silly.</p>
<p>Arguing that the lack of diversity in Girls somehow shows racism by Dunham is equally silly. I guess Sienfield is racist because the four main characters in his show were white?</p>
<p>I think the show is odd but nothing about it shows Dunham is a racist.</p>
<p>I agree razorsharp. Actually, Girls reminds me of Seinfeld in several ways.</p>
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<p>[Lena</a> Dunham Addresses Criticism Aimed At ‘Girls’ : NPR](<a href=“Lena Dunham Addresses Criticism Aimed At 'Girls' : NPR”>Lena Dunham Addresses Criticism Aimed At 'Girls' : NPR)</p>
<p>In my opinion the issue of racism is one of the interesting aspects of the show.</p>
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<p>[Is</a> Lena Dunham Saying **** You to Critics Who Called Her Racist? | The Measure](<a href=“http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2013/01/11/is-lena-dunham-saying-****-you-to-critics-who-called-her-racist]Is”>http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2013/01/11/is-lena-dunham-saying-****-you-to-critics-who-called-her-racist)</p>
<p>Seinfeld is very much different. The cause for Lena Dunham’s criticism is that she casted a show full of white characters and has addressed the issue that she herself doesn’t know how to write a black character. The casting of Donald Glover is superficial.</p>
<p>I somewhat agree with Alh. I thought it was more realistic for our younger generation that she broke up with him because he was Republican. Whether it was an f-u response was not relevant to me and there is no way I could outright say that it was racist. The relevancy of the show lies more for me in the her interpretation of the generation’s attitudes toward work, parents, sex and how they approach those issues as they “feel” very real to me watching my S1 and his friends both male and female now out of college and “launching” with several of them in NYC. I thought the scenes with her parents and her visit home were especially poignant. Although on some level it makes me uncomfortable to watch the girls’ vulnerabilities and glad that I had boys. </p>
<p>The sex scenes, at times, feel alittle gratuitous, but if I think about it there really isn’t any better way to show the variety of attitudes young adults have regarding relationships.</p>