"But while we're making grand proclamations, the one thing that Lena
Dunham has most definitely done for all of womankind is to emancipate
them, forever and ever, from being The Friend."
Were you aware that Lena Dunham and Louis C.K. are responsible for toppling* long-standing TV tropes? Impressive work, especially considering Dunham managed it in ten episodes of one season, and C.K. has managed it in 25 or so. I might have doubted the ability of one or two programs to radically change things in such a short period of time, but that's why we have the internet: to establish timeless truths that are definitely not going to be revised at any point in the future.
*Of course, neither of them actually topples the stereotype: they merely invest them with human feeling.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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