#swifties are fuck

[nine-aetharia]

i need swifties to shut the fuck up about 'oh so kendrick's disses can be analyzed for hidden meanings but we can't do the same for taylor songs' yeah bc that's not isolated to kendrick. subliminals and entendres abound in rap. taylor swift songs are as deep as a puddle while youre wearing flip flops and your feet still arent wet

#kendrick lamar #she's a rich industry plant talking about people not surviving the asylum they raised her in. girl shut the fuck up #she'd cry if you took her pet jet away #you seriously think she's on the same level as a pulitzer prize winner who wrote TO PIMP A FUCKING BUTTERFLY #and an album you can listen to either forwards or backwards and the meaning changes???? you think ahe can write smth as haunting as U???? #also why the fuck are swifties even inserting themselves in this shut up sit down be humble

[nando161mando]

While America is distracted with who Taylor Swift is sitting next to and watching zionist paid commercials, Israel is busy bombing 1.6 million people in Rafah.

Just so everyone understands: these are displaced civilians with absolutely NO WHERE to go.

And Israel has given them 2 options: Be ethnically cleansed or die.

#superbowl #taylor swift #RafahUnderAttack #anti taylor swift #swifties dni #swifties #israel #israhell #benjamin netanyahu #fuck netanyahu #netanyahu a criminal of war #bibi netanyahu #elon musk ‘to make shock visit to israel to meet netanyahu next week’ after furious row over ‘anti semitism on x site’ #free palestine #freepalastine🇵🇸 #palestine #free gaza #gaza strip #gaza genocide #gazaunderattack #gaza #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia #fuck neoliberals #neoliberal capitalism #anthony albanese

[daenerys-targaryen]

“Taylor Swift becomes the first woman-“

#leah rambles #I made this meme fucking years ago HOW IS IT STILL RELEVANT #swiftie hits

[patchw0rk-quilt]

taylor swift could explicitly say that she’s only attracted to men and have sex with a man on live television and swifties would still insist that she’s a lesbian icon and that her generic ass discography (which is the musical equivalent to eating plain oatmeal) is the epitome of gay music

#swifties if you see this post and you’re thinking of a stupid reply to put on this post then fuck all the way off #anti taylor swift #anti swifties #writing in my diary 📔

[taylorsmidnights14]

Behind every angry evil person is an angrier, more evil person

@taylorswift @taylornation

#midnights #taylor swift #taylors version #midnightsnosleepover #red taylor’s version #taylor #taylor swift redesign #midnights redesign #taylornation #tswiftcreatorsnet #the tortured poets department the anthology #the tortured poets department #ts11 #stevie nicks #swifties #taylor nation #taylurking #taylorstans #taylor swift eras #folklore #down bad #fortnight #spotify #apple music #fuck it #poor things #pop album #ttpd

[stuckinapril]

I literally thought this track list was satire when I first saw it because who the fuck greenlit these

#aside from the fact that this woman refuses to pry herself out of the public conscience for two seconds these are actually horrid #swifties before u fucking get mad at me. ‘but daddy I love him.’ let’s be real. #text

[survivinginthejungle]

#asexual #taylor swift #the great bot war of 2024 #you swifties better be an army not just for the meme of it #i'm counting on all of you #i'm meming too much out of this but it's nice to have a sense of comunity when stuff goes down and we're all working together #it's annoying af that there are so many fucking bots #but it's so nice to see the community responding by not moving an inch for the bots #we can do it #💪💪💪

[crumblinggothicarchitecture]

Taylor Swift is a Female Rage icon? Get a Grip.

I’ve just received word that Taylor Swift is calling her show “Female Rage: The Musical.” Here is my very much pissed off response to that nonsense:  

The phrase, Female Rage has an intimately rich history:  

Some of the first accounts of female rage dates to the Italian renaissance. To be clear, women in those days were not allowed to become painters- the arts were seen as the domain of men. They did not believe that women have rich inner lives capable of delivering the type of artistic innovation with which renaissance men were obsessed.  

However, rebels abounded, through the might of their fucking rage. Several women created some of the most compellingly emotional paintings I’ve ever fucking seen. They did it without permission, without financial support, and often under the threat of punishment. They did it as a protest. In paintings like “Timoclea Killing Her Rapist” by Elisabetta Sirani (1659), and another by Artemisia Gentileschi “Slaying of Holofernes” (1612) as it depicts the bravery of Judith as she slayed a traveling warlord out to rape Judith and enslave her city. The painting often is referred to as a way Artemisia was envisioning herself as slaying her rapist. These paintings were used against these women as proof that they were unfeminine- and far too angry.  Both these women suffered immensely for their audacity to call attention to the violation men perpetrated on them. Female Rage bleeds off these paintings- bleeds right through to the bone-deep acknowledgement of the injustice women faced being barred from the arts and having their humanity violated in such a sick way. Both women were hated- and considered far too angry.

In philosophy, also as early as the 15th century, an example of female rage is a philosophical text, often hailed as one of the first feminists works in the western world, written by Christine de Pizan titled The City of Ladies (1405). She wrote in protest on the state of women- writing that “men who have slandered the opposite sex out of envy have usually know women who were cleverer and more virtuous than they are” (“The City of Ladies”). People mocked her all her life- but she stood fast to her convictions. She was widowed at a young age with children to feed and the men wouldn’t let women have jobs! She wrote this book and sold it so that she could feed her family- and to protest the treatment of women as lesser than men. Her work was called aggressive and unkempt- they said she was far too angry. 

In the 18th century, a young Mary Wollstonecraft wrote, A Vindication of the Right of Women ( 1792) upon learning that the civil rights won in the French Revolution did not extend to women! She wrote in protest of the unjust ways other philosophers (like Rousseau) spoke about the state of women- as if they were lesser. She wrote to advocate for women’s right to education, which they did not yet have the right to! She wrote to advocate for the advancement of women’s ability to have their own property and their own lives! The reception of this text, by the general public, lead to a campaign against Wollstonecraft- calling her “aggressive” and far too angry.  

Moving into modernity, the 1960’s, and into literary examples, Maya Angelou publishes I know why the caged Bird Sings (1969) in which she discusses the fraught youth of a girl unprotected in the world. It beautifully, and heart-wrenchingly, described growing up in the American South during the 1930’s as it subjected her to the intersection of racism and sexism. The story is an autobiographical account of her own childhood, which explains how patriarchal social standards nearly destroyed her life. Upon the reception of her book, men mostly called it “overly emotional” and far too angry. Maya Angelou persisted. She did not back down from the honesty with which she shared her life- the raw, painful truth. With Literature, she regained a voice in the world.  

Interwoven into each of the examples I have pulled out here, is the underlying rage of women who want to be seen as human beings, with souls, dreams and hopes, yet are not seen as full members of society at the behest of men. They take all that rage, building up in their souls, and shift it to create something beautiful: positive change. Each of these cases, I have outlined above, made remarkable strides for the women as a whole- we still feel the impact of their work today. They were so god-damn passionate, so full of righteous anger, it burst out into heart-stopping, culture-shifting art. Feminine rage is therefore grounded in experiences of injustice and abuse- yet marked too by its ability to advocate for women's rights. It cannot be historically transmogrified away from these issues- though Taylor Swift is doing her best to assert female rage as pitifully dull, full of self-deprecation, and sadness over simply being single or losing money. She trivializes the seriousness with which women have pled their cases of real, painful injustice and suffering to the masses time and time again. The examples above deal with subjects of rape, governmental tyranny, and issues of patriarchally inspired social conditioning to accept women as less human than men. It is a deadly serious topic, one in which women have raised their goddamn voices for centuries to decry- and say instead, “I am human, I matter, and men have no right to violate my mind, body, or soul.”  

The depictions of female rage over the last few centuries, crossing through many cultures, is an array of outright anger, fearsome rage, and into utter despair. The one unyielding, solid underpinning, however, is that the texts are depicting the complete agency of the women in question. The one uniting aspect of female rage is that it must be a reaction to injustice; instead of how male depictions of female rage function, (think Ophelia), the women are the agents of their art with female made- female rage. They push forth the meaning through their own will- not as subjects of male desires or abuses, but as their own selves. That is what makes the phrase so empowering. They are showing their souls as a form of protest to the men who treat women like we have no soul to speak of.  

Taylor Swift’s so-called female rage is a farce in comparison. Let’s look at an example: “Mad Woman” (2020). I pull this example, and not something from her TTPD set, because this is one of the earliest examples of her using the phrase female rage to describe her dumb music. (Taylor Swift talking about "mad woman" | folklore : the long pond studio sessions (youtube.com)  

The lyrics from “Mad Woman” read “Every time you call me crazy, I get more crazy/... And when you say I seem angry, I get more angry”  

How exactly is agreeing with someone that you are “crazy” a type of female rage in which she’s protesting the patriarchy. The patriarchy has a long history of calling women “insane” if they do not behave according to the will of men. So, how is her agreeing with the people calling her crazy- at all subversive in the way that artworks, typically associated with concept of female rage, are subversive. What is she protesting? NOTHING.  

Then later, she agrees, again, that she's “angry.” The issue I draw here is that she’s not actually explicating anything within the music itself that she’s angry about- she just keeps saying she's angry over and over, thus the line falls flat. The only thing this anger connects to is the idea of someone calling her angry- which then makes her agree that she is... angry. So, despite it being convoluted, it’s also just not actually making any kind of identifiable point about society or the patriarchy- so again, I beg, what on Earth makes this count as Female Rage?  

In essence, she is doing the opposite of what the examples above showcase. In letting an outside, presumably male, figure tell Taylor Swift what she is feeling, and her explicit acceptance of feeling “crazy” and “angry,” she is ultimately corroborating the patriarchy not protesting it. Her center of agency comes from assignment of feelings outside of herself and her intrinsic agreement with that assignment; whereas female rage is truly contingent on the internal state, required as within our own selves, of female agency. As I stated above, the women making female rage art must have an explicit agency throughout the work. Taylor Swift’s song simply does not measure up to this standard.  

Her finishing remarks corroborates the fact that she's agreeing with this patriarchal standard of a "mad" or crazy woman:

"No one likes a mad woman/ You made her like that"

Again, this line outsources agency through saying "you made her like that" thus removing any possibility of this song being legitimate female rage. There is simply no agency assigned to the woman in the song- nor does the song ever explicitly comment on a social issue or protestation of some grievous injury to women's personhood.

She honestly not even being clever- she's just rhyming the word “crazy” with “crazy.” Then later rhyming “angry” with “angry.” Groundbreaking stuff here.  

Perhaps Taylor Swift is angry, in “Mad Woman,” but it is not the same type of rage established in the philosophical concept of female rage of which art historians, philosophers, and literary critics speak. Instead, it is the rage of a businesswoman that got a bad deal- but it is not Female Rage as scholars would identify it. In “Mad Woman” I fear her anger is shallow, and only centered on material loss- through damaging business deals or bad business partners. She is not, however, discussing what someone like Christine de Pizan was discussing by making a case for the concept that woman also have souls like men do. In her book, she had to argue that women have souls, because men were unconvinced of that. Do you see the difference? I am saying that Swift’s concerns are purely monetary and material, whereas true examples of female rage center on injustice done against their personhood- as affront to human rights. Clearly, both things can make someone mad- but I’d argue the violation of human rights is more serious- thus more deserving of the title “Female Rage.”  

Simply put, Taylor Swift is not talking about anything serious, or specific, enough to launch her into the halls of fame for "Female Rage" art. She's mad, sure, but she's mad the way a CEO gets mad about losing a million dollars. She's not mad about women's position in society- or even just in the music industry.

She does this a lot. The album of “Reputation” was described as female rage. Songs in “Folklore” were described as female rage. Now, she’s using the term to describe TTPD, which is the most self-centered, ego-driven music I’ve heard in a long time.

Comparing the injustice, and complete subjugation, of women’s lives- to being dumped by a man or getting a bad deal- wherein she is still one of the most powerful women of the planet- is not only laughable, but offensive. 

#anti taylor swift #taylor swift critical #ex swiftie #mad woman #folklore #maya angelou #christine de pizan #artemisia gentileschi #mary wollstonecraft #Elisabetta Sirani #art history #books and literature #feminist #feminism #female rage #taylor swift #activism #toxic swifties #toxic taylor swift #philosophy #fuck Rousseau

[shitswiftiessay]

Swifties really just type up the STUPIDEST fuckshit ever and then hit send and get thousands of likes.

Also THANK GOD Mother Taylor is able to be herself again because of a MAN!! Joe would’ve forced her to retire!! And Matty would’ve forced her to take loads of drugs 😰😰😰 but now thanks to a MAN, restoring Taylor’s youth with his magical D, Taylor is able to be just Taylor.

#anti taylor swift #shit swifties say #why the fuck did taylor have to drag stevie nicks into this #fuck you taylor #parasocial relationships #toxic swifties #free joe alwyn #stupid fucking swifties

[ur-mom-64209]

white feminism (taylors version)

#anti taylor swift #swifties dni #anti t swift #anti swifties #swifties fuck off #feminism

[alwynslove]

Of course! Telling a man with clinical depression to kill himself or else they are gonna bust in his head with hammers is super fucking funny! Circulating vile rumours about him is funny! Shaming Someone who has NEVER said a word against your fave even though he has been targeted REPEATEDLY is funny! My bad! My sense of humor must be broken :)

#joe alwyn #leave him alone please for fucks sake #Let me scroll the Joe alwyn tag without seeing swifties saying the stupidest shit known to mankind #I just want to see joe gifs and pics 😔 pls let me #anti taylor swift #free joe alwyn #anti swifties

[mariebloodymoreau]

white artist: “I will date a racist man and you will fucking deal with it!!!!”

fans:

#lmaooooo #something is deeply wrong with that fanbase #because how the fuck y’all cheering her on for defending her relationship with a man who’s racist??? #this just proves my point that she could murder someone #and her fans will defend her no matter what she did #anti taylor swift #anti swifties

[daenerys-targaryen]

back in MY day she made us watch football games for snippets of songs

#leah rambles #taylor swift #won’t ever forget hearing the bass of rfi while watching fucking FOOTBALL 😭 #core memory #swiftie hits

[blueskittlesart]

deeply refreshing to see someone critical of Swift who also like, genuinely likes her. Like i'm neutral to positive on her, but the online discourse has been absolutely rancid. flipping between "Taylor Swift has never done anything wrong ever and she's a fucking genius" and "Taylor Swift is the worst lyricist of all time and also a bad person" is exhausting, so thank you for like. nuance or something lmao

not to make it serious for a sec but i genuinely think that being able to like things that are bad is really important. like I think that it's an important skill to be able to look at something and see what you personally enjoy about it and then take a step back and acknowledge that objectively it's flawed. and to also be able to acknowledge that liking something isn't necessarily an identity or a moral stance. and i think that fandom space in general could really benefit from more people taking the time to learn how to do that. it's okay to like things that are bad

#people ask me sometimes why ill occasionally talk about something i like and then go 'but it's bad' and the answer is usually because it is #i love teen wolf. i love genshin impact. i love detective conan. and i fucking LOVE taylor swift. that doesnt mean theyre good #it just means i like them. and recognizing their flaws actually helps me better identify what i like about them! #it's like. in my mind bad > good is the x axis and i like it > i dont like it is the y axis yk. they're not mutually exclusive #tldr it's not that serious. we can all relax a little #irt taylor swift i do also think she has done some real harm to her fans in enabling them to deflect all criticism of her as misogyny #and i don't think it's fully the fault of these people who are parroting that response bc so much of her marketing has deliberately #reinforced this idea that to be a swiftie is to be a part of a sisterhood and that any attack on taylor is an attack on all of those women #who are in that in-group. when that's obviously not the case. but she's marketed herself as. for lack of a better term. 'girl music' #to the point where it makes her fans feel as though any criticism of the music or the woman responsible for it is an attack on their #personal experience of womanhood/girlhood/sisterhood/etc. and that's how you get all of thess bad-faith accusations of misogyny #i don't necessarily think this was her deliberate goal with her marketing tho because like. on first glance such a strong sense of communit #among fans sounds like a great thing. the friendship bracelets i got at the eras tour movie are really genuinely special to me. #but it does present a problem when your fans are unable to separate how they feel about the community and experience your music has fostere #from how they feel about you as a person. especially when you are a billionaire who absolutely CANNOT be above criticism in this economy #anyway. tldr i love taylor's music and i don't think swiftie hivemind is as deliberately malicious as it may seem #but it's obviously necessary to be able to take a step back and look objectively at what you're participating in. #anyway stream ttpd or don't idc <3 #taylor swift

[louisironson]

#this is the aforementioned ‘dumb fucking swiftie meme’ #if you haven’t seen the original it’s that one person who called her a ‘spineless loser’ for being straight #haphazardly color picking the lesbian flag from some picture of her #i made a bunch of these but this was the best one #mash #hawkeye pierce #trapper john mcintyre #colonel flagg

[mmemirrorball]

my honest to god reaction to hearing “give me back my girlhood it was mine first” for the first time

#also if I was some paint did it splatter on a promising grown man!! what the fuck!! #honestly the whole song #would’ve could’ve should’ve #ts midnights #midnights 3am edition #taylor nation #swifties #taylor swift #taylors version #tswiftnation #ts eras tour #vmas #taylor swift vmas #aaron dessner