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whispers of “are you sure?” “never have i ever before,”

folklore | july 24th, 2020

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happy national snake day everyone!! seems like the perfect day to listen to reputation 🖤🐍

But loving him was red / Oh, red / Burning red.

“happy national snake day, my favourite day of the yEAR” - Taylor Swift

“I want to be known for having a beautiful life. And that doesn’t mean that everything has to be good all the time. There’s beauty in the ups and downs. The only thing we know is what we’re experiencing is going to change into something else.”

She doesn’t have to be your taste, and I can totally understand why someone wouldn’t be into her, but choosing to write off a young woman completely because she “has too many feelings” is just typical, old school misogyny. Don’t like her music? Cool. Don’t like her style? Cool. Don’t like the way she words things in interviews? Totally reasonable. But if you’re willing to paint this woman as the CRAZY BITCH EX-GIRLFRIEND because she uses her platform to call out men’s bullshit behavior, you’re contributing to a culture that assumes all women’s feelings are irrational and worthless. It’s mean, it’s boring, and we can do better. If you want to make fun of Taylor Swift, make fun of Taylor Swift. Don’t resort to mocking femininity in general and trying to pass it off as pop culture news. By turning Taylor into a Crazy Bitch, you might be sending the message to other women writers that it’s not worth it for them to express their feelings at all.