Blurred Lines = Rapist?

[PinotNoir]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyDUC1LUXSU

So most everyone I know has been like the following: "It's the rapist song," "It's definitely advocating rape culture," etc.

I finally got around to watching it yesterday, and I was again confused by society. It seems fine to me.

"I am not your maker"
Telling women that men are not your god or above you, but this is also a play on words by saying, "I'm not your god, so I won't judge you if you want sex." I don't see anything wrong with this.

"I know you want it"
People say this is a huge phrase advocating rape culture. OK, it can be bad during the process of rape, but the dude is just saying it. It's like if I was holding a Pepsi and I knew you like Pepsi, and I just started saying "I know you want this Pepsi" (=fine). It's different than if I was forcing the Pepsi down your throat and saying, "I know you want this Pepsi, bitch!" (=bad). Context. Also, there are a lot of club songs that say this or something similar, so I'm surprised those haven't been called out.

Anyway, that's my rant for the month.

 

[Thinkingenigma]

Actually, my take on the song is that it's about being with a girl who hasn't been sexually liberated yet. She wants out so bad, but she's afraid because of her ASD.

One of the girls I'm seeing is like this. I actually ended up using some of the lines from the song while we were messing around just for shits and giggles, but she got super turned on by it.

 

[Ross]

So most everyone I know has been like the following: "It's the rapist song," "It's definitely advocating rape culture," etc.

Seems to be the popular opinion these days. But you know how it is with people running with their emotions - they hear a song and identify with it in a negative way by hearing lines such as "I know you want it" and flashback to some creepy guy telling that to her and thinking that he could have been a rapist had she not taken action and got out of the situation (or perhaps she slept with him and later regretted it). Therefore, they assign negative connotations to the song.

Then people hear about this in the news, read an article, or have a friend tell them that the song advocates rape culture; they see the logic in such an opinion and hop on-board, aimlessly arguing that it advocates rape culture.

Actually, my take on the song is that it's about being with a girl who hasn't been sexually liberated yet. She wants out so bad, but she's afraid because of her ASD.

And I identify with the song in this way (and this is the way in which Robin Thicke likely intended it). I found the song to sing the tune of my own life, with girls wanting to sleep with me physically/emotionally but not wanting it because society opposes sleeping with men quickly. This can be confusing at first because you feel like she really wants you ("the way you touch me") but she is vocally saying things like "we can't do this", therefore making you utterly confused with what her real intentions are, hence the blurred lines.

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I do agree that having people hop on board and say it's advocating rape culture are definitely infuriating if they aren't the ones that originally interpreted it as that. People still buy into the whole "burn the witch" philosophy because they live a life guided by emotions, which are easily swayed. But in the end, this whole mess doesn't really matter that much - just makes a black hole of arguing over whether or not it's talking about rape. Some people think it is due to their experiences, others such as ourselves think it isn't due to our experiences, and we've just got to learn to accept that.