I wrote more than that - you didn't mention the bit about her masturbating next to her sleeping sister.
Yes, you did write more than that, and caricatured it as a decade of systematic sexual abuse rather than a smattering of childhood incidents, that while discomfiting and improper are not wild deviations from the range of normal sexual exploration and behavior for children in her age group.
http://nctsn.org/nctsn_assets/pdfs/caring/sexualdevelopmentandbehavior.pdf
Josh Duggar's behavior wasn't just a few steps outside of the lines of normal sexual behavior for his age range.
The only incident where she inappropriately touched her sister was one out of inquisitiveness when she was seven years old. It lacked sexual motivation. It also happened out in their Brooklyn driveway in daylight, so there was no attempt to conceal it. It's preposterous to compare her touching herself as a kid while her sister was sleeping in the bed they shared to a teenager sneaking into the rooms of opposite-gender and much younger siblings to fondle them while she slept. Yes, I think it's icky that she would do that, and crass exhibition to then detail it in a book, but it's not the moral deviation you're bent on construing it to be, nor is it comparable to Josh Duggar's behavior. They're polar. Kids have been masturbating since the dawn of humanity, and since it's not uncommon for siblings to share sleeping quarters, I'm willing to bet there have been many who done the same thing.
Most just have the sense of propriety to know better than to write about such unsettling and entirely private behavior in a book.
So what? Just because they say it wasn't abuse doesn't mean it wasn't abuse.
I think they have more authority to say that it wasn't abuse since they are the ones who were actually involved. Have you even considered how potentially damaging, as well as degrading that it is to insist that someone who has stated emphatically she hasn't been abused, has in fact been abused? Grace Dunham asked her sister to continue to share a bed with her, for years. That indicates a profound level of trust. Yeah, I see some of their sisterly dynamics as peculiar and disconcerting am disgusted by Lena's actions, but I think it's in effect diminishing the severity of what true child molestation is by insisting that they're the same as Josh Duggar's as detailed in the police report.
Maybe Duggar should have used that defense.
I'm sure everyone would just relax and take claims of sexual assault against a male in their stride if they made some crack about being an unreliable narrator.
If it was anyone else I'd wonder if that was meant to be taken hyperbolically or not.
Lena Dunham apologized for insensitively and inappropriately using the term sexual predator in a facetious manner. She also explained how Grace Dunham had read the entire book before it was published and endorsed it then, and has vigorously stood by it and been far more hurt by the allegations against her sister and the attempt to turn her into a victim when she isn't one. Others don't have the right to misappropriate Grace Dunham's experiences and feelings to suit their agendas.
How exactly is grooming a younger child to kiss you and masturbating next to them in bed not molestation exactly?
Okay. At this point I just have to directly quote Robin Abcarian when she wrote, "If you believe for one second that Dunham was actually comparing herself to an adult child molester engaged in grooming behavior when she wrote that she bribed her sister “with three pieces of candy if I could kiss her on the lips for five seconds … anything a sexual predator might do to woo a small suburban girl,” your critical thinking skills are on life support."
You keep coming back to this one incident of Dunham's, when I've referred to far more incidents than that.
You haven't referred to any other incidents where she inappropriately touched private parts on her sister's body. You've referenced her touching
herself while her sister was fast asleep in the bed they shared, and her "bribing" her sister to kiss her. In the same paragraph she also wrote about how she bribed her sister to let her put outlandish makeup on her for play. Crass, repulsive, wrong - yeah. But equivalent to child molestation? No.
And I get that kids explore their bodies, but you're not convincing me that a one-year old inserted pebbles into themselves
Why is it at all relevant if you're convinced?