Ed. note: some readers may be offended by some of the song lyrics quoted in this story.

A 23-year-old Whitehorse woman has asked CKRW "The Rush” radio station to stop playing Robin Thicke's song Blurred Lines.

"I want Blurred Lines removed because I think it promotes rape culture,” Kendra Willems explained Wednesday afternoon during an interview at Baked Café.

That's why, on Tuesday, she posted a lengthy request on CKRW's Facebook page asking the station to stop playing the song.

"Robin sings about ‘liberating' a good girl by showing her that she actually wants ‘to get nasty' and have sex that she isn't asking for,” Willems' writes.

"Robin Thicke keeps repeating, ‘I know you want it' while his musical partner T.I. casually mentions, ‘I'll give you something big enough to tear your ass in two,'” Willems' writes.

Since Tuesday, her post has garnered a fair level of local attention. This morning, it had 81 "likes” and 134 comments.

"Rape culture is a concept which links rape and sexualized violence to the culture of a society,” Willems told the Star.

"It's a culture where "prevalent attitudes and practices normalize, excuse, tolerate, or condone rape.”

While to most people who already understand that rape is wrong, Willems said, Blurred Lines is probably harmless, although still offensive.

"But in the eyes of a rapist, this is confirmation of what they already suspect, that everybody rapes, and it's normal, and we even have songs about it.”

Scott Carlson, the head of White Ribbon Yukon, agrees with Willems' assessment.

White Ribbon is a campaign led by men to oppose violence against women.

"The key thing to understand here is that the vast majority of men don't commit sexual assault but lots of those that do think it's totally normal behaviour,” he said.

"These aren't just guys jumping out of bushes or anything like that; these are guys from all social classes and backgrounds, and they're usually committing assault against someone they know. In the Yukon about 92 per cent of sexual assaults are committed by someone the victim knows,” Carlson added.

"What Kendra's really pushing for is pushing back against messages that normalize and validate ideas that support a culture of not getting consent, basically.”

Carlson commended Willems for taking the "courageous” stance she has.

"She opened up a really important conversation about how our culture seems to think about getting consent,” he said.

Carlson said there has been some debate about whether the song is actually meant to be about sexual assault. Both he and Willems argue that it most definitely comes across that way.

"It repeats again and again ‘I know you want it,' and features a video of mostly nude women and fully dressed men.

"So it's clearly about putting men in positions of power and dominance,” Carlson notes, adding that it's imperative that those messages are challenged.

"One of my core messages from the work that I do is as guys we need to really be speaking up on what the majority of us really do believe and that's that there are no blurred lines of consent, there's just yes or no.

"We need to make it clear that we respect women so that those who do not will learn that their actions don't have our support.”

There's also been some controversy over the idea of asking a radio station to take certain songs off the air.

As far as Carlson is concerned, however, consumers have every right to "gather support and petition a radio station to stop playing a song we don't want to hear them play.

"That's not censorship, that's just capitalism,” he said.

Diane Petrin, the women's advocate with the Victoria Faulkner Women's Centre, fully supports Willems' request. In her personal life, she has boycotted the radio station for similar reasons.

As far as she's concerned, the issue is pretty simple.

"They shouldn't promote that type of music because it promotes violence against women.”

At the very least, she hopes the station will enter the debate, because it's a discussion worth having.

The Star made several attempts to obtain comment from CKRW, to no avail.

The general manager is currently on holidays, and the music director is on an extended leave, the paper was told.

Blurred Lines "is a really big hit,” Willems noted. It's being played multiple times a day, and will make an impact even if it's no longer aired.

That's part of the reason why she's taking issue with it publicly, understanding that there are plenty of other songs about sexual violence out there too.

"I don't think this is something that's going to be fixed overnight or by taking one song off the air, obviously, but I do think it starts there.

"It starts when we as a community take steps to recognize that things like this encourage rape culture and saying that we as a community are not OK with it and do not want to be a part of it,” she said.