Please stop the incessant hatred of Taylor Swift.
Why would you hate someone for doing nothing other than what most 23 year old women do, they date and it doesn’t work out; because they’re 23. She’s not supposed to have it all figured it out and honestly, if she did I’d hate her too.
When Tina Fey and Amy Poehler poked fun at Swift’s dating record at this year’s Golden Globe awards, they struck her personally. They joked that Swift should stay away from Michael J. Fox’s son who was at the event and she should “take time to learn about herself.”
The singer responded in an interview with Vanity Fair, using a quote heard from Katie Couric, originally from Madeleine Albright. She said, “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.”
To which I agree fully, these two women who had what I would believe to be a rough climb to the comedic big time (one of which is currently going through divorce) have no right to ridicule a young woman for not being able to find “the one” at 23.
The focus of Taylor Swift always being on who she’s dating and how long for (or who’s she’s not dating) detracts from whatever she does. She’s nominated for a Golden Globe because of an impressive song she co-wrote for a blockbuster film, but no one cares. They’re not talking about it the way they dissect her music to find traces of John or Jake or Joe.
She explains it best in her own words, “For a female to write about her feelings, and then be portrayed as some clingy, insane, desperate girlfriend in need of making you marry her and have kids with her,” Swift said, “I think that’s taking something that potentially should be celebrated — a woman writing about her feelings in a confessional way — that’s taking it and turning it and twisting it into something that is frankly a little sexist.”
People are forgetting that she’s talented and that’s what selling the songs. I could care less about John Mayer’s importance in “Dear, John”; it’s a beautiful and well written song regardless and she shouldn’t be publicly shamed for having feelings.
