The Robin Thicke's ''Blurred Lines'' Controversy
 

I was reading the response on The Quietus to something that Aidan Moffat posted on Twitter, apparently, in regard to this song, and I've been aware of the controversy surrounding it because it's been all over the fucking place. A few things I am still not sure after reading his defense of the song is why if there are so many women backing his opinions they so often seem to stay silent and let the guys do all the big talk to the media. I was surprised to see a relatively large crowd of engaging (they asked most of the questions) women attending a Bret Easton Ellis platform a couple of years ago, but I've been wondering since where all the ones who defend this type misogyny are hiding in the daytime.

a writer for Cracked.com wrote just this week about how Robin Thicke is the new vanilla Ice. http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/w...w-vanilla-ice/

as far as the women who defend the misogyny, they are at home scared to come out in daylight lest their "man" see them not cleaning and cooking.

I think that I can be potentially more misogynistic than this song and your post put together.

If I read one more thinkpiece about Robin Thicke I am going to shoot my neighbour. Or even worse, the thinkpieces about the thinkpiecies about the thinkpieices about Robin Thicke.

The shit thing about this is that while everyone gangs up on robin thike (quite rightly), Pharell gets away with it and wanders around like he's saved modern pop music while everyone sucks his dick
the only difference between the two is that Pharell is hot.
That's pretty fucked up if you ask me

Have you read these two? I know you want to.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/201...al-song-decade


http://polemiqueoccasionelle.wordpre...blurred-lines/

What did Aidan Moffat say?

What a to do!

GD... this is a legitimate threat. watch your back biatch

I completely agree with AM about "I know you want it" not being sexist. Plenty of girls use that line too. Douchebag club culture (which Thicke is clearly singing about) is all about power, control and not letting yourself look weak. You're never supposed to act like you want to take a girl/guy home, you have to get creative and fuck with them. That's the way that culture operates and it's not changing any time soon

so it is a paean to douchebaggery of the highest order?

It's the glossy douchebag anthem

remember when Miley stroked his dick with a foam "We're Number 1!" finger while he was dressed as beetlejuice and he did not even like it?





The scary part is that Robin Thicke was a last minute addition, when Billy ray Cyrus was bumped from the telecast.

Fucking shit, these pictures are evidence of everything that is truly wrong with the world. It sickens me that in 250,000 years of human evolution, THIS is the end result, all of our theoretical answers must be facepalming..

I like the song myself, despite the shit lyrics. I don't know, it's too hard to believe that scapegoating some pop song and the moron who sings it is ever going to stop a rapist from raping. It's much more likely that a lot of rapists may not even listen to music at all. How many examples similar to this have we already had with pop bands in the past and precisely fuck all happened in terms of stopping violence against women? Why are Duran Duran or Guns 'n Roses still walking the streets free?

Am I a shit guy for thinking that the song wasn't about rape so much as being a douchebag? There is a big difference

there will always be those who seek to scapegoat music/art/video games/etc. They are usually the very ones doing the shit they blame on music/art/video games/etc.

and please everyone, do not forget that MTV's target audience is 12 YEAR OLD GIRLS. This is by their own admission, so how do you see Miley Cyrus' pedo party on stage with Robin Thicke now? Does it make any sense for a corporate entity to shove these things on pre-pubescent kids? MTV makes shows like Teen Mom to show young girls what they can aspire to?

damn females with their sexuality and their music.

I think that only makes it that much worse doesn't it?

for fucking sure it does.

How in the past 20 years has our society has increasingly catered to teenage interests, indeed, essentially devolved into one big high school is what is disturbing. Shit, where are the adults? Doesn't everybody remember how much high school actually sucked?

I can't be fucked to know or care what 12 year old girls like to listen to or watch on TV. Or boys for that matter.

I think it's creepy to take that much of an interest in that sort of thing unless you're a parent or looking after them and you find yourself trying to work out why they're behaving like little cunts towards you.

Hahaha.. agreed completely. When I get out of work I literally chase down the first adult I can see and talk their ear off. Hanging out with teenagers for a living gets old by around 1:30pm ;)

when you work in teaching or academia, the shit that gets shoved in kid's heads is something that has to be actively scraped out!

Yup, its my favorite part. Blowing minds and clearing out the wreckage of ignorance, baggage, and prejudice. Kids are great people, once you present them honest opportunities to think for themselves while being properly informed. When folks accuse folks like myself of "brainwashing" kids with some kind of particular agenda I laugh in their face. That is the LAST thing I want to do, is have a bunch of clones of myself who will go out and preach the Gospel of making the same stupid decisions I made. Rather, I want kids to be the most informed, responsible, and intelligent about forming THEIR OWN opinions about how THEY actually feel about history, politics, art, and culture. Also, I am constantly inspired by discovering those "light bulb" moments when kids learn something not about the curriculum, but about themselves and their honest place in the world.

My only line in the sand is law enforcement. I respect kids decision to get into the police or military, but I try my fucking HARDEST to nudge them into something more productive like firefighting ;)

You must spread the Holy Ghost around before giving It to Genteel Death again.

Kids are like women in many ways.

No, teenagers make WAY more sense than women do, AND THAT IS SAYING SOMETHING!!

as long as they stay out of my way they can do whatever they fucking like!

Who, teenagers or women?

loler

Me and Suchfriends should be a comedy act for sure. We're so full of life, SO WILD.

you guys are blurring the lines...........