“Lena Dunham canceled several appearances to promote her new book after a self-described “rage spiral” over allegations that she molested her sister as a child.
The allegations stem from passages in Dunham’s collection of personal essays, “Not That Kind of Girl,” in which she describes sexually experimenting with her younger sister as a child. In one essay, she describes bribing her sister with three pieces of candy to kiss her on the lips for five seconds. She also describes probing her 1-year-old sister’s vagina when she was 7 out of curiosity over how it compared to hers.
“One day, as I sat in our driveway in Long island playing blocks and buckets, my curiosity got the better of me. Grace was sitting up, babbling and smiling, and I leaned down between her legs and carefully spread open her vagina,” she writes in the book.”
Read more here: http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/03/showbiz/lena-dunham-book/
Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) and Ana Kasparian (http://www.twitter.com/anakasparian) of The Young Turks discuss the story. Tell us what you think of Lena Dunham’s comments and the right wing reaction in the comment section below.