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Lena Dunham Comes for Mel Gibson, Avowed Anti-Semite and Oscar Nominee

NEVER FORGET

The ‘Girls’ creator did not mince words when discussing Hollywood’s apparent forgiveness of Gibson. It’s another example of the industry’s double standard when it comes to men.

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In Hollywood, there are a million ways for a female actress to be added to the blacklist of former luminaries and controversial has-beens. A woman can be shoved out of the thirty-mile zone for saying the wrong thing, picking the wrong project, or insulting the wrong dude.

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