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IN 2013, ROBIN THICKE RELEASED “Blurred Lines”, a song that would swiftly become infamous for its “rapey” lyrics and objectifying video. Progressive think-pieces denounced it, student unions banned it, and Thicke’s career never recovered. Like many a feminist at the time, I told myself he deserved it.
An unexpected effect of reading , Sarah Ditum’s blistering account of noughties celebrity culture, is that I now feel sorry for Thicke. The period Ditum dubs the “Upskirt Decade” —