"Blurred Lines"? Someone Needs Glasses (or Contacts)

Everyone's heard it, everyone has a certain opinion on it, and it's time I gave mine. I feel like I have an opinion that would mainly fall with Ms. Lai's, rather than Ms. Romano, mainly because beyond the title and a slight change in the connotation of her word choice, she's just repeating a few sources about the topic. I feel like there is an element of misogyny in there, but it's also not strictly a rapish kind. The point that Lai makes illustrates this well: "Yes, 'I know you want it' could be said by a rapist—but so could 'Do you want to go to a movie tonight?'"

It's a tick in the male mind that is mainly triggered when they feel like their "masculinity" is impeded upon, and they feel the need to increase the size of their ego in order to "compensate" for the lack of their "manliness". Symptoms of this are putting down other men, mainly by comparing size of muscles, abs, and penises, much of which are done with use of clothes over said body parts, so lying is easier, comparing "hotness" or number of girlfriends, or more likely, girls they've had sex with, and being overall arrogant toerags towards girls in general (winking, touching, or looking suggestively).

There is a cure, however. Talk to your doctor about taking "Com Unsense" (logica). Side-effects include understanding that you aren't God's gift to women, understanding that size doesn't matter, and awareness that sex is best left with a more permanent relationship. Mr. Thicke, Mr. T.I., and Mr. Williams are in clear need of this cure. The lyrics prove that: "Just let me liberate you", "You the hottest bitch in this place", "I'll give you something big enough to tear your ass in two", "He don't smack that ass and pull your hair like that", etc. For that matter, many of my peers can be cured with this not-so-new drug. It's a common theme with high school students, due to the whole "angst" stage. But for a man who clearly is out of high school (just by his stature, not by his maturity or attitude), this is shocking.

But Thicke isn't the only guilty one here. Miley Cyrus, for instance, turned from a well-liked country girl, to a person who thought that cutting her hair into incredibly short pigtails, sticking her tongue out more than Gene Simmons, and wearing underwear that was practical, not sexual, was a good idea. And need I remind you of Nicki Minaj, and her "song", Anaconda, saying that a girl isn't good enough unless her butt's big enough. All of these are clearly trying to make a controversy and gain attention. And you don't have to use sex as a means of that. Shia LaBeouf took the "woe is me" trail when he put that paper bag over his head, whining silently that he wasn't important anymore. Or Lindsey Lohan and her multiple problems, all in an attempt to garner attention.

I think that we won't be able to fully stop incidents like this from happening. There will always be people sadly interested in the lives of celebrities, from them having yet another sex scandal to them going to the loo. And there will be people equally sad enough to cater to this insatiable appetite. TMZ, I'm looking at you. The best we can do is to educate each other that this is unacceptable behavior, whether it is rapey or just looking for attention. Hopefully the lines shouldn't be so blurry there.