Posted on 09/08/2010 6:39:03 AM PDT by Brittany Pounders
“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.
Nice post. Loved the video. My eight year old is Taylor Swift crazy, and I highly approve.
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.
http://www.teenagerie.com/p/author.html
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)
http://www.theseventeenmagazineproject.com/
I am also a Taylor Swift fan. I love her songs, and also she had contributed a lot to charity. Just a beautiful person both inside and outside.
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