I might get a lot of hate mail for this one, but I'm prepared. Yet instead of teaching girls and women valuable lessons, I feel she is merely perpetuating several archaic values. People everywhere listen to her every word. That wouldn't normally be so upsetting if it were any other famous singer/songwriter, but Taylor holds a lot of power. She is so caught up in her white privilege that she can't even consider that there are any other perspectives out there. As a feminist of color, I feel disheartened when I hear Taylor Swift speak about feminism, which she does pretty often. However, those are all small examples of the bigger issues at hand. And her recent flaunting of her girl "squad" was the real icing on the cake. Her public spat with Katy Perry made me roll my eyes, but her response to Nicki Minaj on Twitter was what got me riled up.
The whiny breakup songs were getting old, and I got pretty irritated when she complained about her dating life becoming "a national pastime." Come on, Taylor. Due to irreconcilable differences, I've officially broken it it off with her.
But as much as I adored her in our teenage years, particularly during the "Love Story" days, we've gone our separate ways recently. We're only a few months apart in age, so I feel like we sort of grew up together. She was the one who cheered me up when my grandma died. She was the one I ran to when my first serious boyfriend dumped me days before my 18th birthday.