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Taylor Swift is a Feminist Icon

@feministauntbecky / feministauntbecky.tumblr.com

Just a 23 year old named Freya, studying an MA in Gender and Media with a lot of feelings about Taylor Swift, Harry Potter, Dianna Agron, Carmilla Series, The 100, Feminism, Equality and other things. Irish, bi, living the dream.
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Anonymous asked:

Did you see what Hayley Kiyoko said about Taylor? I’m sad :(

I did! I think people are actually misinterpreting the quote. I don’t know if it is being taken out of context or what, but if you read the interview itself, I don’t believe she was calling Taylor unoriginal or boy crazy. She was just defending her choice for wanting to make videos with female love interests.

It is actually very similar to when Taylor back in 2014/2015 would say in interviews how she believes people are sexist when they call her out for writing about her exes but don’t call out people like Ed Sheeran or Bruno Mars for writing about theirs. She wasn’t calling out Ed or Bruno at the time, yet rather criticizing how the media and the public handle the situation. Hayley appears to be doing the same.

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taylorswift

Exactly. We should applaud artists who are brave enough to tell their honest romantic narrative through their art, and the fact is that I’ve never encountered homophobia and she has. It’s her right to call out anyone who has double standards about gay vs straight love interests.

Me out here crying over this

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opposite of depression nap. depression awakeness. refreshing the same three websites over and over. there’s nothing new on any of them. eight seconds have passed and it feels like a century

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friend: i never knew u were gay

me: ya it wasnt relevant to your plot didnt want to seem like i was diverse for no reason :/

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concept: zendaya and hayley kiyoko star as each other’s love interests in a romcom featuring late night drives, pop music, and a blurry neon light aesthetic

soundtrack by Carly Rae Jepsen 

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tiny brain: fairy tales i.e. beauty and the beast, snow white, and cinderella are romantic

slightly bigger brain: fairy tales are sexist as fuck #WhatPrincessesTaughtMe

slightly slightly bigger brain: actually fairy tales are empowering for example cinderella is about a woman escaping her abusive home situation and beauty and the beast is about love between social outcasts

large brain: most of these stories are old as shit and reflect the gender roles of the time of their conception but whether or not they are intolerably sexist depends very much on the execution and interpretation of the critical plot points by the adaptation and you can’t paint every adaptation with the same brush

astral brain: fairy tales… but gay

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