{"id":4835,"date":"2014-11-11T15:14:12","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T20:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncrj.org\/?p=4835"},"modified":"2014-11-11T15:14:12","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T20:14:12","slug":"lena-dunham-wasnt-a-pedophile-and-neither-were-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/?p=4835","title":{"rendered":"Lena Dunham Wasn&#8217;t a Pedophile, and Neither Were You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=45% src=\"http:\/\/bostonreview.net\/sites\/default\/files\/lena-dunham-web.jpg\" \/> Like satanic abusers, and communists before them, children who molest were alleged to be legion; if we didn\u2019t see them, it was because we were in denial. They \u201cmake all of us uncomfortable,&#8221; MacFarlane wrote in 1996\u2014&#8221;so uncomfortable, we&#8217;ve had to deny their existence and\/or minimize their behavior until now. We&#8217;ve called their behavior &#8216;exploration&#8217; or &#8216;curiosity&#8217; until they were old enough for us to comfortably call it what it is: sexual abuse of other children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sound familiar? Dunham, Lena. Age: 7. Alibi: Curiosity. Identity: Sex fiend.<\/p>\n<p>Judith Levine in the <em>Boston Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bostonreview.net\/blog\/judith-levine-lena-dunham-sister-sexual-abuse\">http:\/\/bostonreview.net\/blog\/judith-levine-lena-dunham-sister-sexual-abuse<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like satanic abusers, and communists before them, children who molest were alleged to be legion; if we didn\u2019t see them, it was because we were in denial. They \u201cmake all of us uncomfortable,&#8221; MacFarlane wrote in 1996\u2014&#8221;so uncomfortable, we&#8217;ve had to deny their existence and\/or minimize their behavior until now. We&#8217;ve called their behavior &#8216;exploration&#8217;&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/?p=4835\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lena Dunham Wasn&#8217;t a Pedophile, and Neither Were You<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4835"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4839,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4835\/revisions\/4839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}