Adele Accused of Normalizing Sexual Harassment With 'Hello' Lyrics
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University of Oakland's Gender + Equality Center uses Adele's lyrics in attempt to raise awareness during 'Stalking Awareness Month'.

AceShowbiz - To a lot of Adele fans, her massively successful hit "Hello" is probably just another breakup song. But to folks at University of Oakland's Gender + Equality Center, the song only makes sexual harassment worse.

The group particularly takes issue with the line "I must have called a thousand times" which is featured in a series of posters distributed on the university's campus. Appearing alongside the lyrics in the posters is the slogan that reads, "Even great songs can normalize sexual harassment."

Kathy Moxley, director of the Gender + Equality Center, explained that the song was chosen to raise awareness during "Stalking Awareness Month". "To begin a much needed conversation about harassment on college campuses, the University of Oklahoma Gender + Equality Center used popular songs that students listen to, to attract students' attention and to bring awareness to subtle messages in popular song lyrics," Moxley said to FOX411.

"The music examples were used to demonstrate how aspects of popular media could be interpreted to normalize unhealthy relationship behaviors," she added.

Adele's "Hello" isn't the only song the Gender + Equality Center uses for their posters. They also try to draw students' attention with the line "Baby, I'm preying on you tonight. Hunt you down eat you alive" from Maroon 5's 2014 single "Animals".

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