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Yeah, well, I liked it. Mod Carousel explains:

… It’s our opinion that most attempts to show female objectification in the media by swapping the genders serve more to ridicule the male body than to highlight the extent to which women get objectified and do everyone a disservice. We made this video specifically to show a spectrum of sexuality as well as present both women and men in a positive light, one where objectifying men is more than alright and where women can be strong and sexy without negative repercussions.

Can’t remember where I first ran across this, but to quote Nanny Ogg: “Shocked, no — surprised, yes!” Mad props as well to Caela Bailey, Sydni Deveraux, and Dalisha Phillips…

Also, thank you commentor Starfish:

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  5. 5.

    Alison

    @Southern Beale: Was just tweeting some rage about that. I mean…what in the actual fuck. And how low does she think we should allow it? 14 is okay, how about 13, or 12, or 10?

    I mean. And newspapers wonder why they’re losing money.

  6. 6.

    Robert

    This is the best response I’ve seen to that awful Blurred Lines song. What Rhymes With Hug Me? generates alternate lyrics to the song that actually rhyme with “Hug Me.” However, it defaults to a very accurate reading of the songs meaning.

    As for actual parody songs, I think “Lame Lines” takes the cake. It’s a much truer parody of the shocking video but actually addresses the messaging problem with the song.

  11. 11.

    Southern Beale

    So, you know you’re old when you’ve never heard of Robin Thicke until the whole MTV awards catastrophe with Miley Cyrus.

    I had to Google “Blurred Lines” because I had no clue. So it’s basically beautiful women with incredible bodies prancing around half naked while a fully clothed Robin Thicke salivates.

    Same as it ever was.

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    RobertDSC-PowerMac G5 Dual

    Perhaps instead of striking Syria, the President can launch Tomahawks at the WaPo building. Grotesque.

  15. 15.

    Culture of Truth

    I never liked that song anyway way. Although I did like Robin Thicke on ‘Growing Pains’

  17. 17.

    Suffern ACE

    @RobertDSC-PowerMac G5 Dual: well he might as well. The right wing contingent of My FB feed has latched on to the idea that the Saudis provided chemical weapons to the rebels who accidentally set them off, so the whole “we must strike now” is an attempt to get the UN inspectors to pull out before we end up in the difficult position of having to sanction the Saudis. Anyway, I don’t think he’s going to be able to get the normally war happy right convinced. Might as well take out the Post staff as a diversion.

  19. 19.

    lou

    I tried to avoid Robin Thicke until I saw this parody. Oh. my. god. what brilliance the parody is.

  20. 20.

    Comrade Mary

    Speaking of catchy covers featuring beautiful, dancing men in eyeliner, I love love love the entire package here. (Thank you, Jann Arden, when you guest-hosted Q and introduced me to it.)

  25. 25.

    mdblanche

    @Mnemosyne: Have your barf bag ready before reading further.

    As protesters decry the leniency of Rambold’s sentence — he will spend 30 days in prison after pleading guilty to raping 14-year-old Cherice Morales, who committed suicide at age 16 — I find myself troubled for the opposite reason. I don’t believe that all sexual conduct between underage students and teachers should necessarily be classified as rape, and I believe that absent extenuating circumstances, consensual sexual activity between teachers and students should not be criminalized. While I am not defending Judge G. Todd Baugh’s comments about Morales being “as much in control of the situation” — for which he has appropriately apologized — tarring and feathering him for attempting to articulate the context that informed his sentence will not advance this much-needed dialogue.

  26. 26.

    Mnemosyne

    @Suffern ACE:

    Wow. And here I was hoping I was wrong.

    But I guess somebody’s always gotta figure out how the victim was to blame, no matter what.

  27. 27.

    Mnemosyne

    @mdblanche:

    Ewwww.

    I mean, yes, there is a HUGE difference between an adult molesting a pre-adolescent child and an adolescent/young adult having sex with an older adult. Once you get to, say, 16, the lines start to blur (which is why 16 is not an uncommon age of consent) and the problem becomes the power dynamic between the two (is there a spoken/unspoken quid pro quo for grades or other preferment?), not the sex per se.

  30. 30.

    Corner Stone

    @Omnes Omnibus: That’s a little sad. I had hoped she had at least invoked sufficient passion from you that after she said you were through you stalked her, poured paint thinner on the hood of her car and then proceeded to break into her place through the side sliding glass patio door with a silenced .22 and made sure she understo…*
    Ok. So…”meh” it is then.
    Good to know.

    *no bullshit, my former macro-econ prof actually left his wife and did something like this with one of his students. No one was injured during the telling of these stories.

  31. 31.

    Mnemosyne

    There was a really interesting story in the New Yorker last year about a prep school called Horace Mann in New York City where one of the teachers basically groomed a student every year … and sometimes several at once. It did not have a universally positive effect, shall we say, though really they only had one or two successful suicides, so were the students really harmed?
    /snark

  35. 35.

    Rex Everything

    Am I supposed to be against the Blurred Lines video? Can’t keep track. But fuck, those girls are gorgeous. If someone wants to make another vid with guys I don’t give a fuck. Go for it.

  36. 36.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Rex Everything: The biggest problem I have with it is the preemptive lawsuit Thicke filed against Marvin Gaye. I mean, fuck it, give him a writing credit and don’t be an asshole.

  41. 41.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Rex Everything: But it is nothing compared to this. I say it is arguably the greatest pop/rock/funk song of all time.

    ETA: The original version by Prince. Tegan and Sara’s cover is good. But, god damn, I doubt that there is an album as good as Dirty Mind.

  42. 42.

    RoonieRoo

    @Robert: Thank you for those parody videos. I’ve been having an argument on another board with this woman who contends that the whole VMA thing proves that Miley is a “skank” and other words where Blurred Lines/Robin Thicke is just a playful, harmless romp. Seriously.

  43. 43.

    Robert

    @RoonieRoo: That’s the talking points at a lot of websites. Don’t you know that Robin Thicke is a good man married to his loving wife who would never have wandered if it wasn’t for that Disney strumpet?

  45. 45.

    KimInGa

    @Omnes Omnibus: Believe it or not, a really great cover of When You Were Mine was done by Mitch Ryder back in the early 80’s. I used to love listening to the 2 versions one after the other for the contrast.

  46. 46.

    Groucho48

    Neat concept video. The actual video didn’t deliver, though. It was way too awkward in its choreography.

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