DANES: Girls is kind of a pejorative word now, and I think even with the fact that it’s called Girls and the title is in all caps and gobbles up the entire screen, you kind of reclaim it. I feel like the topic of feminism has gone out of vogue because there’s this idea that any inequality that has ever existed is now finally resolved and we should all just be cool. But it’s so important that we become engaged in that conversation again.

DUNHAM: I feel exactly like that—where people are kind of like, ”Our moms handled this, and we really have nothing to complain about anymore.” It’s amazing how not true that is, and yet I feel like every time I make a claim of misogyny, I always sort of apologize for it first, which is itself not very feminist. I’m always like, ”I’m sorry to be the girl who wants to talk about feminism, but that person is sexist.” So the idea that the feminism conversation could be cool again and not just feel like some granola BS is so exciting to me. It is really funny how even cool chicks are sort of like, ”Our moms covered the feminism thing and now we’re living in a post-that world,” when that just isn’t true.

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