"Blurred Lines, Indeed" Response
In this essay from her book Bad Feminist , Roxane Gay discusses the way that women are sexually objectified framed around Robin Thicke's 2013 smash hit "Blurred Lines" (which is basically a love letter to the idea that no means yes. In this essay, she talks about struggling to balance her enjoyment of this music and her desire to be light and fun and not some sort of feminist killjoy with her realistic concern that these kinds of pop-cultural things contribute to the rape culture that we live in. The thing that stuck out to me the most was definitely exemplified by this quote. "It's hard not to feel humorless, as a woman and a feminist, to recognize misogyny in so many forms, some great and some small, and know you're not imagining things. It's hard to be told to lighten up because if you lighten up any more, you're going to float the fuck away...These are just songs. They are just jokes. It's just a hug. They're just breasts. Smile, you...
