{"id":36597,"date":"2016-04-02T21:02:04","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T01:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=36597"},"modified":"2016-04-02T21:17:02","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T01:17:02","slug":"girls-lena-dunham-is-a-gay-man-and-charlie-christopher-abbott-is-the-reason-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=36597","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Girls&#8221; Lena Dunham Is A Gay Man and Charlie (Christopher Abbott) Is The Reason Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?attachment_id=36623\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36623\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-36623\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/christopher-abbott-girls-560x426.jpg\" alt=\"christopher abbott girls\" width=\"560\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/christopher-abbott-girls-560x426.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/christopher-abbott-girls-768x585.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/christopher-abbott-girls.jpg 1646w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why you gaggin&#8217;, Hector??? You just HAVE to understand how INSANE <strong>Lena Dunham<\/strong> is as a director and sociologist! In last weeks episode of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbo.com\/girls\">Girls<\/a><\/em>, Dunham brought back <strong>Christopher Abbott&#8217;s<\/strong> character Charlie- the REALLY sweet boyfriend to Marnie, played by <strong>Allison Williams<\/strong>. Abbott quit the show at the end of the second season abruptly, without his character&#8217;s relationship with Marnie being completely sussed out. Last Sunday, he pops back up, looking like a transracial <em>Latino Fan Club<\/em> &#8220;top&#8221;, hanging out on a street corner with a <em>gang<\/em>, and he apparently has some kind of non-specific accent, a nefarious beard, tattoos, and is later presumed to be a drug addict. It&#8217;s kinda like how <strong>Madonna<\/strong> co-opted an English accent during her London years with <strong>Guy Ritchie<\/strong>. Or how former NAACP president <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/worldofwonder.net\/the-internet-creates-hilarious-askrachel-meme-in-response-to-spokanes-naacp-presidents-racial-claims\/\">Rachel Dolezal<\/a><\/strong> identifies as black, even though both her parents are white. All of this is the complete antithesis of delicate, super caucasian &#8220;bottom&#8221; Charlie (pic below) we once knew&#8230; an apparent tortured, more passive sounding board for the butch antics of Marnie&#8230;talk about a re-working of the binary. Charlie basically became a catcalling macho muck about, and the only remnants of his former self are those puppy dog eyes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This brand new Charlie is super alpha-hot, a gay man&#8217;s backdoor fantasy. However, Dunham&#8217;s narrative is clever in showing that the fantasy that may seem exciting, dangerous, and freeing, can also be just posturing&#8230;ultimately speaking more about ones own self-loathing issues and insecurities&#8230; a hopeful checkpoint on the road to self-actualization. Did I forget to mention that none of this really matters &#8217;cause he&#8217;s SUPER HOT?!?! <em>Girls, Season 5 airs Every Sunday on HBO.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lena Dunham:<\/p>\n<p>This episode is called the <em>Panic In Central Park<\/em>. I wrote the episode in kind of a <em>fever dream<\/em>&#8230;something that occasionally happens. I go home and it all flows out of me. When I wrote it, I had recently watched the film\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eNeN9ZU2CSM\">The Panic in Needle Park<\/a><\/em> and was very inspired by the entire vision of that movie, which is <strong>Al Pacino<\/strong> and <strong>Kitty Winn<\/strong> playing a pair of young, heroin addicts in love, navigating their way through New York City. I wanted to tell a contained romantic story that utilized our characters, while stepping outside of the typical realm of the show&#8230;It&#8217;s one of the most powerful experiences I&#8217;ve had!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?attachment_id=36624\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36624\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/charlie300.jpg\" alt=\"charlie300\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"giphy-embed\" src=\"\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/3o7WTOn29rB65GTa2k\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why you gaggin&#8217;, Hector??? You just HAVE to understand how INSANE Lena Dunham is as a director and sociologist! In last weeks episode of Girls, Dunham brought back Christopher Abbott&#8217;s character Charlie- the REALLY sweet boyfriend to Marnie, played by Allison Williams. Abbott quit the show at the end of the second season abruptly, without [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[6013,2280,6014,2716,6015,6012,58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36597"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36631,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36597\/revisions\/36631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}