After the Met Gala a few days ago, Lena Dunham conducted an interview with close friend Amy Schumer in which they discussed Odell Beckham Jr.'s behavior towards her as they shared the same table. She basically made it sound like he examined her, determined her to be below his standards of a typical "beautiful woman", and then went back to tweeting. Her exact words to Schumer were: “I was sitting next to Odell Beckham Jr., and it was so amazing because it was like he looked at me and he determined I was not the shape of a woman by his standards. He was like, ‘That's a marshmallow. That's a child. That's a dog.’ It wasn't mean — he just seemed confused.” She went on to say, “The vibe was very much like, ‘Do I want to f--- it? Is it wearing a … yep, it's wearing a tuxedo. I'm going to go back to my cell phone. It was like we were forced to be together, and he literally was scrolling Instagram rather than have to look at a woman in a bow tie. I was like, ‘This should be called the Metropolitan Museum of Getting Rejected by Athletes.’”

This caused an extreme amount of backlash, from people accusing Dunham of being a racist, to everyone calling her out as being "arrogant" and demanding of sexual attention that she otherwise would have found fault with and claimed to be sexist. As an avid viewer of Girls and someone who used to find Lena Dunham truly honest and funny, this seemed excessive, and entirely weird and wrong. The hypocrisy in her feminism is apparent here, as she paints Beckham as an asshole for not sexualizing her and choosing to go on Instagram instead. In reality, her supposed feminism would encourage him to not objectify any woman, so her own hurt feelings at being ignored are ill-placed and offensive to Beckham if anyone. He didn't owe her anything, and her feminism suggests he shouldn't be chalking women up to whether or not he wants to sleep with them, which is exactly what so offended her.

In all truthfulness, Dunham was just trying to be tongue in cheek and self-deprecating, which she actually clarified on her Twitter: “My story about him was clearly (to me) about my own insecurities as an average-bodied woman at a table of supermodels & athletes. It's not an assumption about who he is or an expectation of sexual attention. It's my sense of humor, which has kept me alive for 30 years.” Yet, the way she chose her words clearly made it sound like an attack on Beckham versus a pithy knock on her own insecurities, as she herself admits she was self-conscious and surrounded by "models and athletes" that only added to her insecurities. Honestly, Dunham loves having things to complain about, men to paint as sexist cretins, and feminism that takes many hypocritical forms when she wants it to suit her day or mood. Beckham didn't do anything wrong, and Dunham needs to decide what is attention versus sexualization, and whether or not she wants it.