ohIf all the women in the public eye, Taylor Swift It's one that people love to hate. Maybe it's because she is excessively successful โ His Eras tour is likely the highest-grossing tour of all time, with revenues estimated at $1.4 billion. It could be because he is incredibly talented. Have you heard the lyrics? Folklore album? Maybe it's because she is exceptionally beautiful - that hair! Those eyes! That smile!
Or... maybe it's just that she's a woman.
Long-term, uncompromising swifty (that's what we Swift fans call ourselves), I've often wondered what it is about my favorite golden girl with the voice of an angry angel and the brain of an Ivy League English professor that irritates people so much.
Anyone who has seen her american miss documentary for Netflix from 2020 will know that the 33-year-old has It has long been the subject of bile on the Internet.with critics attacking everything from her voice and her way of dressing, to her weight and the men she has dated.
In the latest wave of hatred against Swift, it seems to be the latter that is causing the problem. She'll see, after a breakup with her long-time boyfriend, Joe Alwyn, and a pretty surprising (albeit short-lived) fling with the 1975 leader. matty healeySwift has a new man in her life: Travis Kelce. The American football player is considered one of the best athletes in the game and Swift has already made some notable appearances in some of his biggest games.
Most recently, Swift was spotted attending the Kansas City Chiefs-New York Jets game. to watch Kelce play, alongside close friend Blake Lively and Lively's husband Ryan Reynolds. However, after the game, Barstool Sports personalities Dan โBig Catโ Katz and Eric โPFT Commenterโ Sollenberger, hosts of the popular Sorry for my opinion podcast โ decided to weigh in on Swift's presence with a series of sexist comments, calling her โbad at soccerโ and making lewd jokes about โTaylor Swift's vagina.โ
Elsewhere in the podcast, Katz admitted that he would accept Swift's presence at Chiefs games if she and Kelce "released a sex tape," while describing the raw details the video would need to include for him to accept the rumored relationship.
This is an appalling series of comments to read in its entirety. Here we see one of the most successful women in the world reduced to nothing more than a sex object by two sports fans. It's textbook misogyny: what better way to downplay a powerful woman than by talking about her sex life or making references to her genitals? We've seen it before and I'm sure we'll see it again, but hasn't Swift had to deal with enough of this already?
For years, critics focused on her love life and often forgot to mention it. music not at all in long reads about who he was rumored to be dating at the time. She is a woman who, for too long, has been defined by the men in her life. At least for those who don't have the common sense to listen to her music and show her even a modicum of respect as an artist.
Enough is enough. As actress Rachel Zegler put it in a cheep, โYou will never see people talking about a man like that. This applies to many different scenarios. We do not criticize men's attitudes and relationships as we do with women's, and it is not always only men who speak this way about us. Women can and do too. Stinks".
It's 2023; This type of language should not be tolerated, much less broadcast on a popular podcast. However, when it is, we should recognize it for what it is: hate speech delivered by men who feel threatened by successful women and therefore feel compelled to sexualize them to preserve their flimsy and fragile egos. How sad for them.
