Are these Girls Privileged?

     HBO's "Girls" begins with two parents sitting around a table in a nice restaurant in New York confronting their  24 year old daughter, Hannah Horvath played by series director and writer Lena Dunham, about how her interning job won't cut it any longer and they cannot provide her support.
In an interesting article I read, a reporter for JTA brings forth the question whether "Girls"is about young women's struggles, or some women's privileges:

http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/04/19/3093321/is-hbos-girls-about-young-womens-struggles-or-some-womens-privileges

     For the most part, this article is making apparent that these particular girls are facing "first world problems". These so called "first world problems" about their sexuality and independence are still indeed problems that should be addressed, and it is done in a realistic, sort of "awkward", and comedic way. The audience is then able to confront and explore these important "first world problems" in a very healthy manor.  This is why I find "Girls" to be so creative, and not just about a group of "privileged" white women. Not finding a job right after college, safe sex, and just being treated right ( not subduing to comments from men like- "You have to ask me if you can come") are just a few of the issues within the show. I think the reporter in the article found more of these "first world problems" in the fact that the girls in the show are growing up in the well-off community of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and are not the "underdogs", like children of immigrants that are struggling in a recession, which seems to be less often featured in television shows. However, the maker of "Girls" based it from her personal, yet relatable struggles,  so I don't find the neighborhood which they live to be fairly relative. Yes, it might seem a bit more practical if one of the white girls in the group of friends was replaced by a woman of color, working an average nine to five job, perhaps someone who is just not doing something as unique as say writing a memoir. I believe the show still adequately expresses the message needed to be expressed, which to me is ultimately the idea that you are not alone in the on-going "cruelty" that women in the modern age face. Though in class we only viewed the first two episodes, I found that Lena Dunham does a great job expressing this struggle to not just women of the target audiences, but for everyone, thus I find Dunham a very bold, influential woman.

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