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Lena Dunham has been pretty outspoken on several issues over the years, ramping it up with her defense of Hillary Clinton during this election. She’s come out in support of Kesha, blasted Kanye West for his “Famous” music video, and even lashed out at Donald Trump. Now, in the wake of last week’s horrible chain of events — capped with the tragic murders in Dallas — Dunham is taking a stand against guns. At least the ones featured in the ads for Matt Damon’s latest Jason Bourne adventure.
In the above post, Dunham copies Girls producer Tami Sagher’s sentiment on removing the guns from the New York subway ads for Jason Bourne:
“Hey New Yorkers, what if we do some peeling and get rid of the guns in the Jason Bourne subway ads,”
There’s likely a few other things you could do if you’re “tired of guns,” but I suppose this is a harmless way to protest. Not sure if it will do anything in the big picture, but it does add some support behind Bourne star Matt Damon’s own feelings about guns in America.
Don’t think that’s all for Dunham, though. She’s also joining a fight at her alma mater, Oberlin College. It would seem that students are crying foul over the food in the dining hall and Dunham is there to add her support according to Food & Wine magazine:
There are now big conversations at Oberlin, where I went to college, about cultural appropriation and whether the dining hall sushi and banh mi disrespect certain cuisines. The press reported it as, “How crazy are Oberlin kids?” But to me, it was actually, “Right on.”
I would lean towards this being worth a little attention, but you’d also want to welcome some of these food differences into the typical dining hall experience. I went to a school where the sushi was actually prepared by the local restaurant, so that might sour me to the criticism, but there’s plenty of folks eating sludge via the dining hall. It’s nice that Oberlin students have the ability to complain about the food in this capacity, but it could be worse.
(Via Variety / Food & Wine)
