On Friday, Lena Dunham’s weekly Lenny Letter email newsletter featured an extensive interview with Amy Schumer. The wide-ranging chat touched on Schumer auditioning for Dunham’s Girls, that whole Kurt Metzger thing, and Schumer’s efforts to push for stricter gun control, but one part of the discussion has attracted quite a bit of controversy—and not just the usual controversy that gets stirred up whenever Lena Dunham does anything. While talking with Schumer about how uncomfortable the two of them felt while attending the Met Gala in New York, Dunham explained what it was like sitting by New York Giants player Odell Beckham Jr.:
I was sitting next to Odell Beckham Jr., and it was so amazing because it was like he looked at me and he determined I was not the shape of a woman by his standards. He was like, “That’s a marshmallow. That’s a child. That’s a dog.” It wasn’t mean — he just seemed confused.