Taylor Swift And The Feminazis!

I can feel the blood pumping through my face a little harder and I know that if I were to look in the mirror there would probably be red, splotchy marks on my neck, because that’s typically my personal involuntary response when I get really irritated, frustrated and angry. It doesn’t happen as often these days, perhaps because with what I do now, I see the entire gamut almost on a daily basis. Sadly, not much manages to surprise me anymore. The world is wicked, we’ve lost common sense and stupid people are allowed the same freedom of speech as those of us that think with our brains.

Thanks to blogger, Cassy Fiona for bringing the matter of Taylor Swift being under fire by the feminists to our attention and giving me the chance to opine myself on the matter. You won’t often hear me speak positively about pop culture today, especially when it involves the tweens, the teens and the rising icons in and among that world. I don’t like them, I don’t like their message, I think they are disgusting role models and clueless parents hand-feed it to their children every day ignoring that fact that “garbage in” eventually will result in “garbage out.” It just does. No way around it and your children will not be immune from the consequences of their daily mental diets forever.

As such, I’ve been a longtime fan of Taylor Swift. My 4 year old loves to dance around the room to her music and I’m fine with that. She’s kept it classy, she hasn’t sold out to the skank factor like most of her peers. She doesn’t believe that growing older means you grow sluttier. She’s retained the innocent factor and her songs are traditional love songs that are clean and chaste.

Nevertheless, apparently she has revved up the ire of the feminazi groups with her new song and video. One Feminazi in particular, who sadly is only 18 years old and probably hasn’t even fully developed her chest hair yet, is cutting her teeth on Taylor Swift by writing:

“There are two things that I thought were especially worth noting about this song and the accompanying video. The first is the possessive language, which you might have noticed as something from my previous posts as something that frequently gets my feminist goat.

This song is rife with freaky-deaky, weirdo language that frames Swift as someone perpetually under the ownership, or at least care, of a male authority. The lyrics describe her as not a woman, but as a “careless man’s careful daughter” that her new boyfriend has “made a rebel of.” This is problematic to me, in the sense that it implies a transfer of her ownership from one man to another. I think it’s weird in this song that she doesn’t seem to have any sense of her own identity away from the love interest, or her father. I do, however, give her props for the use of the line “we got bills to pay.” Though grammatically incorrect, it implies that Taylor will be helping to pay the bills though some means of gainful employment. Let’s go back in time 50 years so that I can congratulate her on being progressive!

The other thing I found noteworthy was how Taylor was dealing with the transition from teen star to general entertainer. As much as she infantilizes herself, Swift is distinctly more adult here as compared to her previous videos. She’s got bills to pay! She has children! Usually when you see “teen” stars (she’s 20) make the transition from adolescence, they do it via the sexy route, à la Britney, LiLo, and Miley. “

Ahhhh, yes… the acceptable “sexy route” of Britney Spears and Miley Cyrus. Give me a break!!! These young girls need to realize that acting like a tramp does not equal “sexy.”

Having not seen the video before I decided it was time to sit down and view it myself and saw exactly what I expected to see from Taylor Swift, a view of traditional love. What I think these Feminazi’s hate so much about women like Taylor Swift is that they have made it big, and they made it big ON THEIR OWN TALENT. They didn’t have to de-masculate their men, burn theirs bras and grow chest hair and unibrows to beat their way to the top. In fact, I wrote an article about gals like this not long ago entitled “Tread Softly and Carry A Big Lipstick” and said:

There is nothing worse to a liberal, most especially a liberal woman, than a beautiful, strong AND conservative woman speaking out loudly and boldly about the issues… and doing it with their good-looking husbands by their sides, not as their constant whipping post but as their partners and helpmates. Conservative women do not feel the need to tear down and crucify the men in their lives in order to feel like they have an equal voice.

Taylor Swift’s video was of a sweet fairy tale love story. And only a few disgusting liberal women, who are most likely reacting out of jealousy and spite, would overlook the Lady Blah-Blah’s and instead look at a traditional view of carefully falling in love, marrying your soul mate and starting a family as “losing your identity.” And in this victimhood society that we live in, where we blame our bad behavior on parents who treated us badly, I can fully appreciate and give a standing ovation to the line in the song “a careless man’s careful daughter.” That’s a line worth repeating over and over again.

Taylor, I’m also sending you props for having a twinkling wedding band on the fourth finger of your left hand while holding that baby in your video!

As for the original author who speaks out so disgustingly at a positive message to our young girls, don’t you have a mustache to go shave?

“If this feminist in training has her knickers in a twist about Taylor Swift, why isn’t she upset about what is happening to girls her age and younger in Iran, Yemen and other Islamic countries? Where is her outrage about women being treated as little better than cattle, teenage girls being whipped, hanged or stoned to death for flirting or having sex?”

The answer is that most feminists don’t really care that much about their unfortunate sisters in Iran and Yemen. Taylor Swift is a target because she is an immediate threat to their view of what American women should think and be. She is dangerous to them because many young girls idolize her and are inclined to grow up with traditional ideas about love and marriage. Love between a man and woman that involves a committed relationship and marriage, they generally hate this idea. Sex outside of marriage, and without a strong committment to the future, they really like that idea.

Jamie Keiles, 18, is a first year at the University of Chicago from Doylestown, Pennsylvania. She enjoys studying sociology, reading periodicals, and cycling. She is also the author of The Seventeen Magazine Project.

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My academic interests include adolescent culture, the social construction of gender, the definition of authenticity, and the promotion of media literacy. In my spare time I enjoy commuter biking, fine dining, working with my hands, and travel.

The Seventeen Magazine Project is attempt to spend one month living according to the gospel of Seventeen Magazine. The blog serves to document my experiment, as well as to provide commentary on the adolescent experience. (5/21/10 through 6/21/10)

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