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Tragedy! You set out to read a negative review of a piece of media you dislike, only to find that the critic is being completely unfair to it and making a bunch of bad, unsupportable arguments.

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"Girl in Pink Dress" by Laura Wheeler Waring 1927

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It's bothers me that goyim can so easily point out that goblins are an allegory for jews in Harry Potter yet when people use zionist not to genuinely mean zionist but as an allegory for jews, they are suddenly blind.

And sorry for being so radical for just a second, but irl antisemitism is much more important to deal with than fictional antisemitism/antisemitism in fiction books

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Despite all the petty things Taylor Swift has done, I’m curious, why do you support her? Is her music that good to you?

When did I ever say that I support her? All I said is that sometimes people read way too much into her lyrics and it simply isn't that deep.

Taylor's a very polarizing figure and don't get me wrong she does annoy the crap out of me sometimes, but I don't think I've ever quite had the same level of investment in her than most people seem to? I'll comment on stuff she does bc she's kind of an unavoidable figure of pop culture, but other people either really love her or really hate her, and I'm sat here like, well. I don't think she's a good person, but she's not the worst person in the industry by any means. Her music is alright. I wouldn't pay to see her in concert or for one of her ridiculous vinyls, but I always listen to her albums when they come out and usually find something to like. Some of her songs are better than others. I have criticism of her music and how the fact that she surrounds herself with sycophants who tell her exactly what she wants to hear has completely kept her from growing as an artist, but I also think sometimes people who hate her just don't understand that the appeal of a Taylor Swift song is not necessarily the actual lyrics (which sure, are pretty basic once you take them out of context), but a combination of lyrics and music and tone.

I have zero investment in trying to make her look better or worse than she is. You can tell me she's garbage for x and y and I'll probably agree with you tbh, but I'm not gonna apologize for enjoying her music. I don't think she's actively causing harm on the same level as someone like JKR (well, expect to the planet, but show me a billionaire whose jet usage isn't fucking ridiculous). Taylor's petty feuds are with other celebrities, she's not targeting minorities or using her wealth and power to fund hate groups. If and when she does, I'll stop listening. In the meantime, I'll like the songs I like, and just keep not particularly caring about Taylor Swift the person.

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In her song Rainbow Dress, Taylor Swift describes the position of her purported "straight sex" in relationship to what Gayle Rubin terms the charmed circle of sexuality, wherein any sexual behavior outside an accepted range can only be immoral. When it comes to the vectors of heterosexual versus homosexual and vanilla versus kinky, her "just normal sex, nothing too weird" with a "regular hunk with a beard" is positioned inside this charmed circle. Yet the most glaring exception is that her sex is public--at the gay pride parade, no less. The hunk she desires has no name, no specific relation to her, and she makes no pretense of monogamous attachment. Her apparently ironic participation at the gay pride parade draws from Michael Warner's anti-identitarian critiques of tendencies that elevate sexual orientation above other maligned sexual practices and detach queerness from sex altogether. Swift's sexuality is clearly informed by queer perspectives: the erotic fixation on ball sweat evokes gay sadomasochist "pig" subcultures, and her claim that she hates her own vagina invites a multiplicity of pleasure possibilities that do not involve direct genital stimulation. The push and pull in her lyrics between straight nomenclature and queer imagery builds upon Eve Sedgwick's critiques of heterosexual-homosexual binarism in Epistemology of the Closet, and attuned listeners know that the question of queerness "hidden inside" cannot follow such an either-or formulation.

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yes she is talking about hollywood and fame. people who want to hate her will misinterpret the line to justify their hatred but she is obviously and clearly referring to fame.

Well, I'm glad you agree about the line. It seemed obvious to me but I figured maybe I was the one getting it wrong! When all is said and done, I do think that there are valid reasons to criticize Taylor Swift or her music, but I would say that you're also right that sometimes people who hate Taylor Swift willfully choose to interpret her lyrics as uncharitably as possible and with zero consideration for the context in which she's saying it, and I've never found that particularly constructive.

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Okay, am I the only one who understands the line "You wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me" as not being about the literal house that she grew up in as a small child, but about Hollywood? I keep seeing posts about how she was raised very privileged in a Christmas tree farm and how dare she trivialize mental illness etc. but like, I really don't think she's talking about her childhood at all in this song but about Hollywood and her life of fame and backstabbing and the insanity that goes along with it...

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This is genuinely just so I know if people want me to tell them how much I appreciate them commenting or if it’s just implied

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can we just have, like, any feminist movement whatsoever. did everyone just stop caring?

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i miss when lana was fat and all the annoying bitches stopped associating themselves with her

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Al Buell - "The Ballerina" - 1961 Al Buell's Beauties Calendar Illustration - Brown & Bigelow Calendar Co. - American Pin-up Calendar Collection

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Regrettably, I really like "But Daddy I Love Him." It has Fearless vibes, which is probably why, but even the mess surrounding the song is weirdly compelling to me. Like, I've had this theory for a while that Taylor tries to date those perfect sons-in-law type cause those are the guys she thinks she should like but when it comes down to it her actual type is literally just John Mayer. You know, the pretentious bad boy rock star who looks like he never bathes...Well, to each their own I guess.

I also find it really interesting that this song marks the first time Taylor has ever actually publicly criticized her own fans, going as far as to call them vipers. And how fitting that she's never cared that they harass, doxx and intimidate people on her behalf but the second they have a problem with her dating a huge racist they need to mind their own fucking business, right Taylor? You can tell she was absolutely fuming that her fanbase would ever dare do anything but heap countless praises on her head and instead would try to tell her what to do and honestly she'd probably have a point about her love life being her business if a) the reason her fans hated MH wasn't that he's a huge racist (which she really buries the lead about in this song, you'd think they didn't like him because he's a 'bad boy' or whatever crap), and b) if she hadn't literally spent her entire career using her romantic life as a marketing ploy. Like, I'm sorry girl but you can't parasocial this hard with your fans and then be mad at them for being too invested in your love life, at a certain point you have to admit you created this situation yourself.

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there's a lot to hate but i think my least favourite thing about AI generated images is that now every time i see a really cool artwork on the internet, instead of childlike wonder i experience suspicion

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the issue with ttpd personally is that I love some of the songs but sadly I've been force-fed her personal life so much, these details keep coming and leaves a bad taste in my mouth

You can't say "1830s without the racist" after writing an album about matty healy

"So high school" is a cute love song, but it's about our xenophobic racist king tk

"I can fix him" have some elements I like but it's about mh and her getting offended she's being held responsible for her problematic actions

"guilty as sin?" is one of my favs, but it reads very different when you know (unfortunately) the context

"so long, london" is amazing, but just like "renegade" she blames joe alwyn for having mental health issues, but also out them to the world which is the worst part of it all

wishing I didn't know the context, but it is practically impossible to engage in any taylor swift space without knowing

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I'm not even saying this to be mean but I'm shocked at how out of breath and hoarse Taylor's voice sounds on this album. You can tell she has not taken one single second off to rest her voice in the last couple years. It's especially noticeable on 'Who's Afraid Of little Old Me' (edit: oh okay even worse on I Can Fix Him) but so far pretty much all of the album has felt like she smoked a whole pack of cigarettes before going into the studio.

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On the Bus  -    Alexander Nikolayevich Samokhvalov, 1970 

Russian, 1894-1971

Oil on canvas 90 x 102 cm         35 ½ x 40 1/8 in.