Though we no longer
watch gladiatorial contests, Lena Dunham's celebrity suggests that we now take a prurient interest in watching young women exhibit their hangups, insecurities about body image, and sex lives, all in excruciating detail.
Birth control: Health probably shouldn't be much of a governmental issue beyond ensuring and encouraging, but policymakers have managed to turn this basic human right into a
gladiatorial arena; women in particular must
watch on as their bodies are politicized rather than humanized.