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Celeb News: #AskThicke hashtag goes wrong!
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Aw?
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It's astonishing how he went from being hot to just plain old creepy. He deserves all the backlash thrown at him.
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Hilarious.
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Originally posted by DouglasBooth
hunty, stop right there... have you even seen the video??? he has a bunch of naked girls grinding and dancing around in suggestive manner and balloons hanging around that says robin thicke has a big d*** while singing "i know you want it" " i hate these blurred lines"
girl if you think thats pro feminism then you should log off the internet and start reading books..
and dont even get me started on that pic... if he wanted to have a "rockstar lifestyle" then he shouldn't have gotten married in the first place...
YOU CAN'T HAVE YOUR CAKE AND EAT IT TOO...
Now as for you, Sashay away!!
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Firstly, don't tell me to sashay away. Whether or not you're trying to be sassy, people are entitled to their opinions and it's how you have interesting conversations on this website.
Secondly, I don't understand how female nudity and feminism works. On one hand, we have women walking around topless saying "free the nipple" and then on the other hand, a man has topless women in his music video and those same women scream "YOU SEXIST PIG! YOU DISGUSTING MISOGYNIST PIECE OF ****! HOW DARE YOU! F**K YOU!" Like what
So nudity and female sexuality are only acceptable when the women themselves are the recording artists? Madonna is allowed to release a book on nudity, music videos about sex, simulates sex and masturbation on stage and is praised for it. Rihanna, Miley, Gaga, Beyonce and Rihanna are overtly sexual and are praised for empowering female sexuality, yet when a man celebrates sex he's instantly a misogynistic rapist? How tf does that work? That's offensive to the tragedy, horror and reality of rape. The video was him flirting with girls and whispering in their ears while he smiled, not f***ing pinning them down by the throat while they struggled to break free. It all looked consensual. These models consented to the music video, would have got paid thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars for it. It gave them amazing exposure and they probably love the final product.
I'm a gay man, so I shouldn't care, but it's becoming like straight men can't celebrate sex, while female pop stars are constantly celebrating it and gay men and women are parading around on pride floats in minimal underwear while swinging sex toys around. Yes, straight white men have had fortunate lives for all of human history, and they still do, but that doesn't mean they should be banished from celebrating sex.
And literally nothing you said countered my argument. He's still singing "but you're a good girl" which implies he's singing about the fact that women are just as sexual as men, they get just as horny and they have physical, sexual desires. It's human nature. But society tells them they can't have sex. They have to be "good girls" and abstain from sex before marriage.
As for "Robin Thicke has a big d**k" - that's just tongue-in-cheek humour. Why is Katy Perry allowed to say "it's time to bring out the big balloons" but he writes "Robin Thicke has a big d**k" and it's suddenly rape. Rape is a really serious thing. It's a really serious word. And I'm surprised that people throw it around so carelessly. When talking about "rape culture" you're skating on thin ice. Even bringing rape up in conversation offends some victims, and hearing people discuss rape in reference to the video probably offends them more than the video itself actually does, which they wouldn't have even considered to be 'rapey' if it hadn't been brought up by a bunch of radical feminists who look for misogyny in everything.
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He should have expected that
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Like he doesn't deserve it.
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Wasn't there a similar thing done with R. Kelly? What makes their management think people would talk about the music over other things?
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NOW WAIT A MINUTE !
His new album is called "Paula" ?
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Originally posted by Rihinvention
Firstly, don't tell me to sashay away. Whether or not you're trying to be sassy, people are entitled to their opinions and it's how you have interesting conversations on this website.
Secondly, I don't understand how female nudity and feminism works. On one hand, we have women walking around topless saying "free the nipple" and then on the other hand, a man has topless women in his music video and those same women scream "YOU SEXIST PIG! YOU DISGUSTING MISOGYNIST PIECE OF ****! HOW DARE YOU! F**K YOU!" Like what
So nudity and female sexuality are only acceptable when the women themselves are the recording artists? Madonna is allowed to release a book on nudity, music videos about sex, simulates sex and masturbation on stage and is praised for it. Rihanna, Miley, Gaga, Beyonce and Rihanna are overtly sexual and are praised for empowering female sexuality, yet when a man celebrates sex he's instantly a misogynistic rapist? How tf does that work? That's offensive to the tragedy, horror and reality of rape. The video was him flirting with girls and whispering in their ears while he smiled, not f***ing pinning them down by the throat while they struggled to break free. It all looked consensual. These models consented to the music video, would have got paid thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars for it. It gave them amazing exposure and they probably love the final product.
I'm a gay man, so I shouldn't care, but it's becoming like straight men can't celebrate sex, while female pop stars are constantly celebrating it and gay men and women are parading around on pride floats in minimal underwear while swinging sex toys around. Yes, straight white men have had fortunate lives for all of human history, and they still do, but that doesn't mean they should be banished from celebrating sex.
And literally nothing you said countered my argument. He's still singing "but you're a good girl" which implies he's singing about the fact that women are just as sexual as men, they get just as horny and they have physical, sexual desires. It's human nature. But society tells them they can't have sex. They have to be "good girls" and abstain from sex before marriage.
As for "Robin Thicke has a big d**k" - that's just tongue-in-cheek humour. Why is Katy Perry allowed to say "it's time to bring out the big balloons" but he writes "Robin Thicke has a big d**k" and it's suddenly rape. Rape is a really serious thing. It's a really serious word. And I'm surprised that people throw it around so carelessly. When talking about "rape culture" you're skating on thin ice. Even bringing rape up in conversation offends some victims, and hearing people discuss rape in reference to the video probably offends them more than the video itself actually does, which they wouldn't have even considered to be 'rapey' if it hadn't been brought up by a bunch of radical feminists who look for misogyny in everything.
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Can I get a TL;DR?
And yes, his album is called Paula.
Serves him right!
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What form of sexual or emotional abuse will you be normalising in your next jaunty hit? #AskThicke
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am LOVING IT
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Originally posted by Rihinvention
Firstly, don't tell me to sashay away. Whether or not you're trying to be sassy, people are entitled to their opinions and it's how you have interesting conversations on this website.
Secondly, I don't understand how female nudity and feminism works. On one hand, we have women walking around topless saying "free the nipple" and then on the other hand, a man has topless women in his music video and those same women scream "YOU SEXIST PIG! YOU DISGUSTING MISOGYNIST PIECE OF ****! HOW DARE YOU! F**K YOU!" Like what
So nudity and female sexuality are only acceptable when the women themselves are the recording artists? Madonna is allowed to release a book on nudity, music videos about sex, simulates sex and masturbation on stage and is praised for it. Rihanna, Miley, Gaga, Beyonce and Rihanna are overtly sexual and are praised for empowering female sexuality, yet when a man celebrates sex he's instantly a misogynistic rapist? How tf does that work? That's offensive to the tragedy, horror and reality of rape. The video was him flirting with girls and whispering in their ears while he smiled, not f***ing pinning them down by the throat while they struggled to break free. It all looked consensual. These models consented to the music video, would have got paid thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars for it. It gave them amazing exposure and they probably love the final product.
I'm a gay man, so I shouldn't care, but it's becoming like straight men can't celebrate sex, while female pop stars are constantly celebrating it and gay men and women are parading around on pride floats in minimal underwear while swinging sex toys around. Yes, straight white men have had fortunate lives for all of human history, and they still do, but that doesn't mean they should be banished from celebrating sex.
And literally nothing you said countered my argument. He's still singing "but you're a good girl" which implies he's singing about the fact that women are just as sexual as men, they get just as horny and they have physical, sexual desires. It's human nature. But society tells them they can't have sex. They have to be "good girls" and abstain from sex before marriage.
As for "Robin Thicke has a big d**k" - that's just tongue-in-cheek humour. Why is Katy Perry allowed to say "it's time to bring out the big balloons" but he writes "Robin Thicke has a big d**k" and it's suddenly rape. Rape is a really serious thing. It's a really serious word. And I'm surprised that people throw it around so carelessly. When talking about "rape culture" you're skating on thin ice. Even bringing rape up in conversation offends some victims, and hearing people discuss rape in reference to the video probably offends them more than the video itself actually does, which they wouldn't have even considered to be 'rapey' if it hadn't been brought up by a bunch of radical feminists who look for misogyny in everything.
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gurl,, i didn't read it all but i get your point that the balloon thing doesn't by itself equate to rape but seriously??
[Breakdown: Robin Thicke]
Shake your rump
Get down, get up-a
Do it like it hurt, like it hurt
What you don't like work
Hey!
Good girl
I know you want it
I know you want it
I know you want it
this
with naked women unclothed dancing around a bunch of guys fully clothed wearing tuxes..
and plastic balloons saying robin thicke has a big dick
and this picture of her cheating on her wife (yes in my opinion that counts as cheating) really counts as someone being a feminist. though the picture doesn't have any connection with the video... it just proves what robin really thinks about women
and don't you dare say female popgirls doing it all the time...
it's one thing to have songs about sex but it's another to have songs about rape
my fave is Gaga and though i understand her message, her leaked vid DWUW def. deserved all the criticisms it got with it's confusing message and very repulsive video
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Originally posted by Lippy
AskRKelly was funnier tho
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AskRKelly had me hollering for hours.
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OH GOD I'M DEAD
And this one:
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Will there ever be a boy born who can swim faster than a shark? #AskThicke
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LIKE WHAT EVEN THE ****
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A Perez Hilton AMA sized mess
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That song outsold most of ours fave, so haters better be pressed.
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Perez Reddit AMA teas
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People are such douches these days.
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Originally posted by KillingYourCareer
That song outsold most of ours fave, so haters better be pressed.
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None of my faves are gross, cheating, and misogynistic manipulators, so that's fine really.
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Originally posted by DouglasBooth
girl if you think thats pro feminism then you should log off the internet and start reading books..
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Originally posted by DouglasBooth
gurl,, i didn't read it all but i get your point that the balloon thing doesn't by itself equate to rape but seriously??
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Wait...so...let me get this straight. You accuse me of needing to read more books but then complain about reading "it all" in response to like 5 paragraphs? Are you serious?
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Originally posted by DouglasBooth
[Breakdown: Robin Thicke]
Shake your rump
Get down, get up-a
Do it like it hurt, like it hurt
What you don't like work
Hey!
Good girl
I know you want it
I know you want it
I know you want it
this
with naked women unclothed dancing around a bunch of guys fully clothed wearing tuxes..
and plastic balloons saying robin thicke has a big dick
and this picture of her cheating on her wife (yes in my opinion that counts as cheating) really counts as someone being a feminist. though the picture doesn't have any connection with the video... it just proves what robin really thinks about women
and don't you dare say female popgirls doing it all the time...
it's one thing to have songs about sex but it's another to have songs about rape
my fave is Gaga and though i understand her message, her leaked vid DWUW def. deserved all the criticisms it got with it's confusing message and very repulsive video
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I don't think "shake your bum" implies rape. The “get down, get up-a” part is an interpolation of James Brown's "Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine.” "Do it like it hurt" to me is equivalent to saying "I'm gonna f**k your brains out" or "f**k so hard it hurts." - WITH her consent. The girls in the video are clearly consenting, unlike Gaga in the DWUW video who is unconscious.
I just don't see how or where this song glorifies rape. It's sexual. It glorifies sex. But nowhere does it say or imply, "so men, go out and rape women, rape is great. No matter how much she says no, or please stop, or she does consent but then half-way through says 'please stop' just keep going anyway!"
I agree that Gaga's video deserved it's criticisms, but it deserved its criticisms because it CLEARLY blurred the lines of consent when a girl who went under anaesthetic (Gaga) had her body sexually exploited and played with when she was unconscious. Something that could be likened to the date rape drug rohypnol, and could trigger traumatic memories in rape victims who saw the video.
I don't think anyone would have thought the song Blurred Lines, or its video, were about rape until it started popping up on feminist blogs like Jezebel screaming "MISOGYNISTIC PIG" just for using hot models dancing around in undies. Madonna did that with men in Girl Gone Wild and Gaga did it in Alejandro (which was controversial for other reasons) but still, there were attractive men dancing around in undies and no one was saying that glorified the rape of gay men.
Girls consensually dancing around in undies =/= the brutality and horror of rape.
And yes, pop girls have songs about sex, but my point wasn't to liken their songs about sex to this song about rape. My point was that I don't think this song is about rape in the first place. I'll say it again. I think this song is about the "blurred lines" between girls having strong sexual desires, just as strong as men, and the fact that society tells them they have to be "good girls" who must remain pure virgins until marriage, even though he knows deep down that everything in her body is telling her that she wants it.
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