Earlier this month, University of Northern Carolina senior Liz
Hawryluk took offense when a DJ at a local spot, Fitzgerald’s Irish
Pub, began playing Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines”—a song feminists
have blasted as pro-rape because of such lyrics as “I know you want
it.” Hawryluk marched into the DJ’s box and demanded that the song
be stopped; in response, she claims she was ejected from the pub
(according to the management, she was merely asked to leave the
DJ’s area). Unbowed, she went on the social media warpath and found
numerous supporters who mobbed the pub’s Facebook page. A few days
later, a spokeswoman for Fitzgerald’s not only issued a public
apology to Hawryluk but pledged that the popular song was forever
banned from Fitzgerald’s, along with the visiting DJ who had played
it.
The feminist crusade against “the rape culture,” whose
aggressive zealotry has long eclipsed what positive contributions
it may have made to tackling real problems, writes Cathy Young, has
now descended into outright silliness with a war on a hit song. But
it’s silliness with a nasty authoritarian edge.
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