ONTD

Her backlash has been brewing for a while now. Even aside from her personal life country stans have been bitter about her for the longest for sweeping all the country awards when her music is not country. Lmao she'll probably lay low for a while till that Harry song comes out in 2014.

I hate the argument that anyone is anti-feminist. There are a lot of problems in the feminist movement, and you don't have to be a part of it in order to believe in equality.

Or alternately, it's possible to believe in equality and to be informed about feminism but to opt out of the movement because the third wave sucks. I am not a feminist, but my ideals are what they are. To call me anti-feminist wouldn't be an insult. It would be true.

I dislike her because she is basically the "special snowflake" complex put to life, or at least her public image, despite being thoroughly ordinary. She's not like most girls! She wears t-shirts! She's not a bitch ! She is basically the female version of the nice guy. Her fake surprise and innocence complex are also the opposite of endearing.

Aside from that, she can sleep - or not sleep - with whoever and how many boys she wants. Not my business and just one more thing that makes her like girls her age.

Bless you.

I agree. Some people are just sweet and don't go very deep.

people will hold her up to the age which is going on 9 years ago but then get mad when you bring up nasty girl lol

I love this comment. Actually, I love all of your comments in this post.

mte

Meh, I'm just not a fan of her music.

Idk I think she's smart. She's got a great PR machine and she works the system to her advantage. I give her props for it. I don't even really think it's that terrible that she "bashes" the women her exes leave her for in her songs because doesn't every other artist do that, too? In every capacity (movies, books, etc)?

What I do think is that she's sort of reached the brink with all this fake relationship shit and she either needs to not date anyone for a while or she needs to have an actual, lasting relationship. The Harry Styles thing was so overblown and so obviously PR generated that I think in the end it was a bad move for her to make. Now she can't date anyone else for a while because of how fake the other one was.

tbh the main reason why i dislike t.swift (besides her music) is that her pr is constantly pushing these fake-ass relationships. they aren't even being subtle about it anymore. it's hard to take her heartbreak seriously when you know the whole relationship was orchestrated for the media.

also a lot of this t.swift backlash exists solely online. irl, most people are pretty much in love w/ her

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The only thing I agree with in this article is the part about her asexuality. Everything else is pure drivel.

First of all, she's not a girl, she's an adult woman, so quit the patronization while you're ahead.

Second, the problem isn't that Taylor Swift fucks around, the problem is that she tells people about it afterwards and shames the ones she fucked around with. She has no concept of privacy. It's gross and crass when John Meyer does it, it's gross and crass when Taylor Swift does it. True, a lot of people conflate the two issues out of misogyny - shaming her for being a "slut" and shaming for not respecting the people she was with - but that does not mean that the latter does not apply.

Third, about her songs. GO FUCK YOURSELF AND FUCK THE 3RD WAVE "FEMINISM" BULLSHIT YOU'RE SPEWING. Any woman who had to climb over other women by shaming and embarrassing them for their sexuality is NOT only not a feminist icon and could never be feminist icon, she actively undermines feminism and women's rights and absolutely deserves to be criticised for it. In other words, a woman is not required to help, but she is definitely required not to get in the way.

I'm sorry I have to break it to you, but not all women's choices are feminist choices and not all women's choices should be free from criticism just because they're women's choices.

I really don't give a fuck about her private life - that's why it's called PRIVATE, while she's using it to fuel her business. Regardless of whether it's done by a woman or a man that is always a very classless thing to do. And I am using capslock and cuss words to shame the writer of the article for being an apologist for a slutshaming woman, rather than shame a woman for being a slut, but nice try at derailing there. Next time I recommend that you update your reading comprehension skills before you engage in such exercises.

To sum it up, you just called me a misogynist for calling out a sexist woman and her apologist. GURL. BYE.

Now if a regular girl was in Taylor's place (minus the fame and the career), no one would give a fuck. But, since Taylor is famous, people judge that she is different, when she is just a human like us. I have seen girls like Taylor who like to be in relationships. They go from one relationship to another because they hate being alone and fear it. Taylor Swift is not a whore - all she is it shows she is desperate which isn't a bad thing because most people want to be in relationships than rather single.

it's amazing what hearing "you belong with me" and taking intro to women studies: successfully identifying the patriarchy will do to ontd's blood pressure

Meh, on one hand I won't even touch the argument about how many people she's allowed to date and how sexual or not she is because gfdi, but I understand a comment like Michael's because it's one thing fucking who ever you want and it's another building your career on other poeple. This wasn't something other people forced on her, this obsession with her love life is something she chose, deliberately, and keeps cramming down everone's throat. She won't shut up about it, she won't stop writing "clues" in her albums, she won't stop smirking annoyingly about it in her interviews and it can easily come across as malicious and calculated. It isn't just a discussion about feminist rights and a random celebrity and I don't know why people pretend it is.

MFTE

just chiming in yet again to say I'm so glad she wasn't Eponine in Les Mis

the problem isn't that she dates a lot of guys honestly she's young so who cares, the problem is that the media thinks it's their business because she writes every woe-is-me-i'm-the-victim song about them.

it's getting boring, and she sounds awful live. :/ sorry.

no1curr

I was raised by parents who brought me up to think if you work as hard as guys, you can go far in life.

When she said that, I was done with her.

uhm, her comment insinuates that women don't work as hard as men most of the time and that women can't accomplish anything without acting like men.

eh this comment is dumb and like i've said in other posts, i'm sure taylor doesn't realize the implications of some of her actions/comments, but someone really does need to stick her in a women's studies class ASAP.

I think a lot of the Taylor hate is hypocritical or misguided, but I still think there's something very wrong with her public image. I think it stems from an internalised misogyny, but I think people are going about it the wrong way with their criticism. So I think this person has a few good points, but I think they're seriously reaching by calling her a role model and 'in control'.