From the minute Taylor Swift swept herself into our sights, she’s been at the top of every media outlets hitlist. Can you guess why? Or did you even notice? Hate towards women in the spotlight has been outrageously and extremely prominent since the rise of social media, and probably even way before then. For years I found myself absolutely despising her and I never once questioned it. But I am now, and you should to. I don’t know about anyone else, but my dislike towards her stemmed from what everyone around me had said about her. “Oh, she dates too many boys.” “All of her songs are about her breakups.” “Can she write about anything else?” It was so ingrained into my head from everyone around me, and everything that I was seeing, reading, and listening to about her. She never even had a chance in my mind to change my opinion. The media had crafted this ideology of her into my head, your head, everyone’s head. And she’s not the only one they have done this with. They’ve started attacking Jameela Al Jamil for standing up for Taylor, herself, and many other women that the media has felt the right to attack. I wonder why. It’s 2020 and women still aren’t allowed to have their own voice. We’re still blatantly being bullied into submission. Women will get shaded for the smallest of things, things that men find themselves doing on a consistent basis. But we all of a sudden have a problem when it’s a woman doing it? Literally every man musician ever has written about his exes. Take Ed Sheeran for example, he writes about his exes and no one bats an eye. But T Swift writing about her exes and her experiences makes her a ***HIIII IDK IF I CAN SAY THIS OR NOT SO JUST CHANGE IT IF I CANT LOLOLOL***** whore? Make it make sense.
Recently she has decided to speak out on things she never has before and she has even highlighted her own experience of feeling like she has to “sit and look pretty” and that she has no place in politics. Which has garnered her more hate, obviously. She has spoken about about her eating disorder as well. Which I do believe her pushing herself into the smallest box she could to keep people from hating her says all that it needs to about our media industry and the trolls in comments who perpetuate it further. Personally, I’m stoked and proud as heck to see her step outside of that box society helped her put herself in for so many years and see that she doesn’t have to fit anyone’s standards or expectations. This is no longer a mans world and we definitely do not have to live in one ever again.