Lena Dunham has called it quits with Twitter. On an hourlong podcast with Re/code Decode, the Girls co-creator revealed that she has freed herself of social media hate. She now has someone else tweet messages on her personal account.
Dunham told host Kara Swisher that she doesn't look at Twitter anymore. She tweets, but she does it through someone else. She said, "I really appreciate that anybody follows me at all, and so I didn't want to cut off my relationship to it completely, but it really, truly wasn't a safe space for me." The decision came partly due to the "verbal abuse" and body-shaming comments Dunham received after posting a photo on Instagram of her wearing just a sports bra and her boyfriend's boxers. Dunham explained, "I was wearing men's boxers, and it turned into the most rabid, disgusting debate about women's bodies, and my Instagram page was somehow the hub for misogynists for the afternoon."
