Robin Thicke's #AskThicke Twitter Hashtag Backfires: 'Why Are You Such a Misogynist?'
When VH1 played host to a question and answer session with Robin Thicke on Twitter, they could probably have predicted the reaction they received.
Instead of innocuous questions about the Blurred Lines singer's favourite foods or musical influences, the majority of those responding with the hashtag #AskThicke had more pressing concerns - such as his misogynistic song lyrics.
Blurred Lines, which includes the lyrics "I'll give you something big enough to tear your ass in two" and "he's don't smack that ass and pull your hair like that", received negative criticism for the song's trivialisation of sexual and domestic violence against women.
Even though Blurred Lines remains the most downloaded song in UK chart history, Thicke's critics went to town with the hashtag.
Thicke is planning to answer questions online Tuesday at 7.30pm BST.
#AskThicke Robin, you're my favourite misogynist! Would you sign a picture of an apron for my daughter? She wants to be a Dr for Gods sake!
— Danny Dyer (@DannyDyer5) July 1, 2014How's your own personal feminist movement based on trivializing consent & promoting rape apology going these days? @robinthicke #AskThicke
— Shelby Knox (@ShelbyKnox) June 30, 2014What form of sexual or emotional abuse will you be normalising in your next jaunty hit? #AskThicke
— Scriblit (@Scriblit) June 30, 2014#AskThicke if a woman says no but 'you know she wants it'. How many years in prison would you serve for statutory rape?
— Wilbo (@Janus456) July 1, 2014Is anyone else really pumped for the #AskThicke live Q&A tonight? I think I have some questions
— The Vagenda Team (@VagendaMagazine) July 1, 2014#AskThicke It might seem like some of the questions on this hashtag are cruel and abusive but Robin, I know you want it
— Kitty (@KittyKnits) July 1, 2014#AskThicke Are you an actual predator or just a profoundly boring man desperately trying and failing to make erotically-charged music?
— linkshund (@linkshund) July 1, 2014#AskThicke do you think that the content of the questions you are getting crosses the line? As if it were, I don't know, 'blurred'?
— Dean Burnett (@garwboy) July 1, 2014#AskThicke
What's it like being the human personification of a mid life crisis?
— TechnicallyRon (@TechnicallyRon) July 1, 2014#AskThicke Sometimes people don't want to date me even though I'm obviously entitled to them and their bodies. How should I approach that?
— Ali C (@accio_cupcake) July 1, 2014What part of NO don't you understand? #AskThicke
— Rachel McKibbens (@RachelMcKibbens) June 30, 2014Do you remember that time you thought they'd named a loaf of bread after you, until it was pointed out it said 'thick cut'?
#AskThicke
— TittyBiscuits. (@dawneywawney) July 1, 2014Are you going to fire your social media consultant? #AskThicke
— Michael Merrifield (@ProfMike_M) July 1, 2014Hey Robin, is it just women you hate or are you a horrible bigot towards other people too? #AskThicke
— Lucy Corbett (@lucycorbett) July 1, 2014How many naked women did it take before you stopped seeing them as people & instead saw them as YouTube hits? #AskThicke
— Miss L (@ProResting) June 30, 2014#AskThicke immurement or scaphism? Gonna give you a choice, which is more than you've done for any woman.
— Another Angry Woman (@stavvers) June 30, 2014I’d like to #AskThicke why he thinks it’s cool to publicly humiliate and pressure an ex-partner, but somehow I doubt they’ll ask that one.
— Jonas Wisser (@jwisser) June 30, 2014You still haven't told me where your shoes are, so I can piss in them. Where are your shoes, so I can piss in them? #AskThicke
— Another Angry Woman (@stavvers) July 1, 2014#AskThicke Did you really write a rape anthem as a love song for your wife and are you still wondering why she left you?
— Maria (@MariaJPrice) July 1, 2014© Copyright IBTimes 2024. All rights reserved.
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