#heternorm

I am normally a huge fan of Lena Dunham, but I do agree with the backlash she received. Luckily, she was able to see that the assumptions she made about Odell Beckham failing to see her as someone to “fuck” were a tad hypocritical. I am all for everyone presenting their sexuality in any way that they see fit, so I don’t mean that there was a right or a wrong way for her to present her own sexuality. Rather I find it problematic that she reduced his inability to interact with her as merely being because he could not see himself having sex with her. These assumptions only contribute to the idea that Sharon Marcus presents in “Between Women”: “to be feminine is to be the opposite of masculine and to be desired by the masculine (19).” Although her dress at the gala event was masculine by society’s standards, her prerogative  to be desired sexually by the masculine is still a heteronormative ideal.