Everyone Loves ‘Heated Rivalry’ Until Lena Dunham Makes a Gay Porn Joke at Taylor Swift’s Wedding

You might think we’d left the 2010s behind, but there’s still an unfortunate lingering tendency to grasp pearls when Lena Dunham opens her mouth. The Girls creator grabbed headlines this weekend for reportedly making a joke about gay porn while delivering a speech at the wedding of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, which took place on Friday at Madison Square Garden. Per a report in the Daily Mail, while making her remarks, Dunham made a quip about Kelce’s career, saying: “American football is just straight guys reenacting gay porn,” which reportedly drew a mix of gasps and laughs from those gathered. To which I say … gasps?! You must up your tolerance for a casual, semi-explicit joke that merely mentions human sexuality! Which part of the joke was shocking? That gay people exist? That they have sex? That that act of sex is sometimes captured on camera? Or that the schema of queer sex maps pretty well onto that of the average fourth-down formation? Dunham’s observation isn’t even anything new: feminist artists (Dunham included!) have been making the link between sports, homosociality and queerness for many decades. Look no further than artist Barbara Kruger’s “Untitled,” which famously features a group of wrasslin’ suit-clad men with the text “You construct intricate rituals which allow you to touch the skin of other men” over them. The phrasing eventually became a Tumblr micro-meme. And honestly, standup comics have been making jokes about how gay wrestling and tackling looks for decades now.Perhaps you think Swift’s wedding was not the right venue for a joke about gay sex, to which I’m say, I’m sorry that the sacred venue of … .:checks notes:. … Madison Square Garden was sullied by anal. What should really put this to (violently squeaking) bed is the fact that Swift herself seemed to be a fan of the verbiage, according to the Daily Mail. Per the outlet, Swift reportedly called Dunham a genius after her speech. Finally, someone sp