It's interesting that Taylor Swift seems to have handled her fame and success so well that people are completely unwilling to swallow the idea that she's suffered from it at all. Like the press has done full-on Britney shit to her but for whatever reason, she's never crashed out. She's been globally famous since she was a teenager but when she tried to sing about the impact that's had on her in TTPD, people tore her to shreds for "playing the victim" and "being dramatic" for describing herself as unstable, as if she hasn't been stalked and harassed every day for twenty years.
It feels like a catch-22. Taylor hasn't made her struggling visible enough for people to take her side when she writes about it. Somehow it's easier for people to rationalize that all the press and discourse about her just runs off her back because she's just so damn privileged, than to open their eyes and realize nobody could survive that shitstorm unscathed. So people who otherwise believe in defending women feel perfectly fine ignoring the amount of misogyny that comes her way, and instead rely on the fact that she's rich (like every other celebrity?) to dismiss any idea that she might have been wronged.
But if she did crash out and go to pieces, go to rehab, visibly lose her mind in some way that makes it obvious how much she's struggled, then people would crucify her for that too. So the only option for a woman in her position is to just... shut up and take it.
