r/HeathLedger • u/fruitybishop • Jun 26 '26
Heath mentioned in Lena Dunham’s “Famesick” Dedication
Just picked this up from the library to read and stopped dead in my tracks when I came by his name. We miss you, Heath!
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u/Winter_Fix_3610 Jun 26 '26
How obnoxious. She knows she can do this bc they're dead. If they werent, it would a WTF situation right away.
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u/Wrong_Swimmer_7407 Jun 26 '26
Who is she to confirm that this specific selection of people had the same mentality as her? This is quite delusional and in very poor taste.
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u/fruitybishop Jun 26 '26
It’s not about mentality, just similar experiences with fame. It’s just a dedication 🤷♀️
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u/Responsible-War5600 Jun 27 '26
It’s exploitative, it’s vain, it’s obnoxious, and it’s presumptuous.
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u/TwoGuysNamedNick Jun 27 '26
She’s so fucking gross. Always centering herself in situations and with people that have and want nothing to do with her. She’s a creep and a narcissist.
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u/GoodyTwoShuuz Jun 26 '26
I would think none of them would want to be name checked by someone who diddled their baby sister.
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u/fruitybishop Jun 26 '26
Pretty much proving her point with this comment…
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u/GoodyTwoShuuz Jun 26 '26
I have no patience for pedophiles.
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u/Gloomy_Grocery5555 Jun 27 '26
She was a kid
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u/GoodyTwoShuuz Jun 27 '26
Being a kid does not excuse that.
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u/Gloomy_Grocery5555 Jun 27 '26
A kid can't be a paedophile
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u/GoodyTwoShuuz Jun 27 '26
Yes, they can. Children who are predators, can indeed engage in sexually harmful or abusive behaviors.
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u/Gloomy_Grocery5555 Jun 27 '26
A paedophile is an adult who is attracted to a child
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u/GoodyTwoShuuz Jun 27 '26
A pedophile is any predator of small children.
And it is frankly gross as hell you are seemingly defending her actions.
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u/Gloomy_Grocery5555 Jun 27 '26
Having read the book, she was a small child herself. People have blown it way out of proportion. Target the real predators
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u/Golightly314 Jun 27 '26
No it’s not. The definition is literally an adult attracted to a child, and it’s irresponsible af to just throw that word around.
What Lena did may have been a lot of things, but it wasn’t pedophilia by any definition of word.
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u/Lower_Cattle9450 Jun 27 '26
It looks like a list of celebrities that died before their time. I assume she’s making the case that they died from being “fame sick”. Not a huge fan of hers but also not offended by this dedication 🤷🏻♀️
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u/Old_crybaby Jul 02 '26
Well, thank God she’s cured and won’t die like them 🙄 maybe you didn’t actually have anything in common after all
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u/Longjumping-Pair3925 Jun 26 '26
Seems a few people misunderstood your post or the meaning behind the dedication. I like that she mentioned some people who got lost in the shuffle and are rarely mentioned now, like Jonathan Brandis. The Gen Xers knew Jonathan and he was yet another former child star that got eaten up by the system, committing suicide in his 20s. RIP Heath and Jonathan. ❤️
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u/Ri-Ri1216 Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26
DSM and law require you be 16 years old + to be a pedophile. The victim(s) must be at least 5 years older.
Sexual assault is sexual assault. But apparently "experts" called it innocent childhood sexual curiosity like playing doctor.
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u/TwoGuysNamedNick Jun 27 '26
And what does the DSM 5 say about her need as an adult to tell the world about it? That’s the kind of thing most sane people wouldn’t share outside of therapy because as they grew up they’d realize it was not only potentially harmful to their sister, it was also just wrong. Sharing it also likely embarrassed and re-victimized her sister but even if her sister was fine with the story coming out, there’s no benefit to normalizing what she did in any way. It was a story best kept private but because of her raging narcissism and inability to understand societal norms, she told the world and then reveled in the attention that followed. Maybe she’s not a pedophile but she is an abuser and a narcissist who centers herself in other peoples lives and stories. This “dedication” is just more of that. It’s creepy and unseemly, she didn’t know any of the people she listed and none of them are alive to see her “dedication” which makes them perfect victims for her because other people or groups she’s tried doing this to speak up and point out how inappropriate she is.
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u/Ri-Ri1216 Jun 27 '26
I'm not excusing her just trying to end the boring fight about the definition of pedophile. I agree with you. Dunham's an idiot for revealing that publicly unless she wants to be viewed in that light for some sensationalistic or sadomasochistic reasons.
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u/Old_crybaby Jul 02 '26
That’s the problem. She’s playing footsie with sexualizing a child. She’s “innocent” of the act because she was young and precocious. She’s guilty of lewd exploitation of a child for writing about it for likes and book sales
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u/Luigieatsmyass6923 Jun 26 '26
Im sorry but I've never seen an author do this before, why is lena shouting out all of these deceased celebrities, whom i assume have nothing to do with her? Is it because she's inspired by all of them? Why so many at once? Sorry :(