I thought the Chicago Sun-Times was engaging in subtle humor on its front page here...

... making it look like Lena Dunham was biting the headline, but � click through � she's holding an "I'm with Hillary" bumper in her teeth. And here's Lena's message of support for Hillary:

Hey, just a head�s up: accusing women of supporting Hillary just because she�s female is misogynistic BS � women are smart enough to make decisions based on a number of factors: policy, track record, campaign strategy. Yes I think it�s time for a female president but I�m not part of a witch�s cabal that senses ovaries and suddenly MUST VOTE. Plus if I was gonna vote for someone just because she was female it would be this chick...

(Photo of Lil' Kim.)

... written in on all my ballots always. So go ahead, argue your political POV but don�t insult a woman�s intelligence by acting as though she votes exclusively along vaginal party lines. As Kim would say �I�m valedictorian y�all in the audience/And I�ve got nine hundred and ninety-nine votes, You got nine hundred and ninety-nine notes/You know bitch I�m worldwide.� New Hillary campaign slogan? TGIF!

"We do, however, have a problem with the fact that those who are so quick to condemn Dunham say nothing about these men."

Writes Katie Halper � speaking for herself and her "Morning Jew" co-host Heather Gold � in a piece titled "9 comedy bits Lena Dunham critics need to call anti-semitic," pushing back the criticism of that Lena Dunham humor piece in the New Yorker, "Dog or Jewish Boyfriend? A Quiz." Halper and Gold have the thesis that the criticism of Dunham comes from sexism, not any serious concern about anti-Semitism, and you can think about that. I'm just absolutely distracted by this sequence from Mel Brooks' "History of the World Part 1," which is a hell of a lot more than a "comedy bit":



I was in awe, saying out loud, several times: "Why have I never seen this before?" Why isn't that more famous? You endlessly hear � it's knee-jerk at the mention of the Spanish Inquisition � about Monty Python's "No one expects the Spanish Inquisition." Why isn't that Mel Brooks song-and-dance more deeply engrained in the culture? Is it because he's Jewish?

"[Y]ou think you can take it all, like, 'oh my god, that�s so funny, somebody called me a fat cow who deserves to be dragged through the street,' but it does affect you internally."

Said Lena Dunham, about everybody who uses Twitter � "whether you have a million followers or whether you have seven followers, because we all deal with the complexity of people being able to say things to you anonymously from behind the veil of the internet."

"I was like �the spelling�s so bad, I�m not taking these people seriously; they have eggs for avatars, I don�t care!� And you walk through the day and these horrible phrases are being repeated through your head� There are things that affect me; I�m weird, I�m affected by violence, threats of rape, I�m a mess!"

Her solution is not to look at Twitter at all. She writes her own tweets (she says), but sends them to someone else to post for her and to let her "know if there�s an important response."

This corresponds to what I was saying to that philosophy professor, quoted in in the NYT, who was dismayed about the insults she read about herself on Yik Yak. Don't look at it! Stop mentally engaging with it.

And this is a cue to quote 2 of my mother's favorite expressions: 1. "You're only encouraging them," and 2. "He's just trying to get a rise out of you."