The left is becoming a circular firing squad.
Via Daily Mail:
Rose McGowan blasted Lena Dunham for slut-shaming after the Girls actress came to the defense of one of her show’s writers who is accused of raping a 17-year-old girl in 2012.
‘Lena Dunham, Jenni Konner. Good old-fashioned elitist slut shaming. Way to go,’ McGowan tweeted on Saturday evening.
Dunham and her co-show runner Jenni Konner released a joint statement on Friday expressing support for Murray Miller, who is being accused by actress Aurora Perrineau of sexual assault five years ago.
‘While our first instinct is to listen to every woman’s story, our insider knowledge of Murray’s situation makes us confident that sadly this accusation is one of the 3% of assault cases that are misreported every year,’ Dunham and Konner wrote on Friday.
‘It is a true shame to add to that number, as outside of Hollywood women still struggle to be believed. We stand by Murray and this is all we’ll be saying about this issue.
On Saturday afternoon, Dunham issued an apology, writing in part on Twitter: ‘I naively believed it was important to share my perspective on my friend’s situation as it has transpired behind the scenes over the last few months. I now understand that it was absolutely the wrong time to come forward with such a statement and I am so sorry.
‘Every woman who comes forward deserves to be heard, fully and completely, and our relationship to the accused should not be part of the calculation anyone makes when examining her case. Every person and every feminist should be required to hear her.’
Many Twitter users supported McGownan’s criticism of Dunham and Konner.