Lena Dunham slammed for ‘cultural appropriation’ over ‘wild’ hoops remark in shock interview
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Lena Dunham has been slammed for ‘cultural appropriation’ for quipping she would ‘take her hoops out’ and ‘fight’ anyone slating her castmates.
The controversial Girls star, 39, who previously bizarrely accused her college of cultural appropriation for serving sushi, was slated online for her response on how to deal with trolls.
She told Variety: ‘If anybody has anything to say about any of my actors — I keep my mouth shut on most things these days, but try a b***h. I’m not playing around here. It’s the only time that I’m going to be taking my hoops out, ready to fight.’
The comment sparked immediate uproar as fans accused her of ‘cosplaying a black woman’ and ‘still appropriating cultural references that aren’t hers.’
One follower wrote: ‘Can we send her back where ever she went for the last 15 years ? Hoops? This girl had a show in Brooklyn with zero POC in it. That show was a fantasy in her own mind for a lot of reasons.
Another typed: ‘Sigh. I can’t wait until cosplaying a Black woman goes out of style.
Lena Dunham has been slammed for ‘cultural appropriation’ for quipping she would ‘take her hoops out’ and ‘fight’ anyone slating her castmates
The controversial Girls star, 39, who previously bizarrely accused her college of cultural appropriation for serving sushi, was slated online for her response on how to deal with trolls – pictured June
Others penned: ‘“Taking my hoops out” is such a wild comment from a white woman who has harassed Black people. She’s such a joke!
‘Fifteen years later and still appropriating cultural references that aren’t hers. Why is she still getting any of our time?’
‘Hoops? Can’t recall a single character that was a woman of color.
‘About the hoops? I rolled my eyes. Racist undertones of you ask me.’
DailyMail.com has contacted representatives for Lena Dunham for comment but has yet to hear back.
In 2016 the star spoke out after her alma mater Oberlin College’s dining hall was accused of ‘cultural appropriation’ for serving the likes of sushi and Banh Mi sandwiches.
Students began protesting the liberal Ohio college’s incorporation of Asian cuisine on the cafeteria menu.
They found some dishes ‘offensive’ because it messed with the original recipe and felt ‘wronged’ by others for not tasting good.
The comment sparked immediate uproar as fans accused her of ‘cosplaying a black woman’ and ‘still appropriating cultural references that aren’t hers’
‘There are now big conversations at Oberlin about cultural appropriation and whether the dining hall sushi and Banh Mi disrespect certain cuisines,’ Dunham told Food & Wine.
‘The press reported it as, “How crazy are these Oberlin kids?” But to me, it was actually, “Right on.'”
Elsewhere in the chat the Good Sex writer opened up about body image after years of discourse about her size.
‘I have been in Hollywood at every size. I have been a sample size, I have had my body change because of life, illness, aging, menopause. And it is merciless wherever you are.’
A sample size in the US is a size two.
In regards to her Too Much cast — who appear in sex scenes in the show — the New York City native said she feels protective over how they might be scrutinized after the show premieres.
She declared, ‘If anybody has anything to say about any of my actors — I keep my mouth shut on most things these days but try a b****. I’m not playing around here. It’s the only time that I’m going to be taking my hoops out, ready to fight.’
Megan Stalter and Will Sharpe are the main characters in the romance-themed program.
Models-turned-actresses Adwoa Aboah and Emily Ratajkowski also have roles in the project.
After enduring body shaming while her HBO show Girls aired, Dunham said, ‘I probably wasn’t protective enough of myself.’
When asked if she thinks the success of the show made different body types more acceptable, she answered, ‘I wish I could say yes, but I really don’t. I think we had this moment: Body positivity was here, and then it was gone.’
She clarified, ‘I obviously am not critical of anybody’s choice, whether it’s to use Ozempic — people should be allowed to have whatever body they feel comfortable in.
‘But we cannot pretend that the bodies people want aren’t influenced, and we can’t claim it’s always for health reasons and not for aesthetic reasons.’
And she pointed out that judgement is ‘pretty inevitable.’
‘But just because I’ve become used to it for myself doesn’t mean that I feel comfortable about it for anyone else,’ the entertainer pointed out.
The director created and starred in Girls from 2012 to 2017, frequently baring all in character as Hannah Horvath.
Her straightforward depictions of sex gave way to controversy, with discourse framed around Lena and her body shape.
Speaking to The Sunday Times STYLE in June, Lena said: ‘I expected that people would have a response to the kind of sex the show was depicting or the level of nudity, but the idea that my body, the shape of my body, would become such a hotbed for discussion? It was insane.
The star wed Luis Felber in 2021 – they are pictured together in June 2025
‘I can’t say I was never rocked, but I’m lucky enough that my thing has never been looking at a picture of myself and picking myself apart or feeling tortured about how I looked — it’s just not my area. I have my own stuff I’m tortured about, but it wasn’t that.’
Last year, Lena revealed that her desire to not have her ‘body dissected again’ was the reason she cast Megan to play the lead role in the semi-autobiographical series Too Much.
She told the New Yorker, ‘I was not willing to have another experience like what I’d experienced around [Girls] at this point in my life. Physically, I was just not up for having my body dissected again.’
