Andrea Rhiannon

Born This Way was, unequivocally, “You are beautiful for being YOU in a world that often tells you you’re not” while “You Need To Calm Down” is basically “Me, and The Gays™, have haters”.

Gaga was singing about celebrating herself with Born This Way. Taylor Swift comes off as comparing homophobia as equivocable the beef she had with Katy Perry.

I feel a better comparison from the early 10s is Same Love by Macklemore. While yeah, the song is clumsy and hokey, at least “I received a lot of misdirected homophobia growing up and I can only imagine how much worse it is for gay folks” is more tasteful than “homophobia is just like when critics say my songs aren’t good or I get snake emoji replies on Twitter.”

people like to make fun of the “when i was in the 3rd grade i thought that i was gay” line and its deserving of that bc its definitely a clumsy attempt at solidarity

but they also forget that macklemore used his status as one of the Hot Celebs of the time to put a song on the radio where the chorus is a woman singing clearly and explicitly about loving other women

me when i think i see something move in the garden while i’m getting a glass of water at 2am in my quiet suburban home:

“protect trans youth of color”

being nice to people working in customer service

girls in thigh-highs

receiving $400,000