Taylor Swift shows real class despite cheap shots from famed feminist

New York Post ^ | December 18, 2015 | Chelsea Samelson

[presidio9]

If Taylor Swift ever believed she had bad blood before, boy does she have it now. Over her birthday weekend, the young queen of pop watched a bomb with her name on it explode after the famed feminist critic Camille Paglia published a shockingly scathing attack on Swift, calling her a blond, elitist “Nazi Barbie.”

Yes, such a cheap and sensationalist shot at a fellow female comes from one of America’s most well-known and respected feminist writers. Paglia is a self-proclaimed “notorious Amazon feminist” and isn’t exactly your stereotypical bra-burning, Birkenstock-wearing feminist. Her ideology is as nuanced as her interpretation of feminism is hard to pin down.

Nonetheless, Paglia is a feminist warrior at heart, fighting for every woman’s right to succeed, thrive and pursue her wildest dreams. Incidentally, Taylor Swift has done just that, becoming the de facto poster child of big-picture feminist philosophy. For Paglia to rip Swift to shreds, even stooping to associate her with fascism, is a lesson in hyperbolic hypocrisy.

Swift is a feminist’s dream mostly come true. She is young, smart, self-made, mind-bogglingly successful, in charge and fiercely independent, both in business and in her personal life; she is unmarried and runs her personal brand with an I-make-my-own-decisions attitude. Swift has power, control and command of her life, all the things today’s young women are told to pursue.

And Swift has a gently rebellious independence of character, too. She doesn’t bow to Hollywood’s pressure to strip and sex-scandal her way to the top, nor does she seem to have let the enormous weight of fame and wealth transform her into a vain, vacuous, self-obsessed starlet. On the contrary, Swift is humble, cheerful and miraculously down-to-earth, and as loyal to her fans as they are to her. Indeed, Swift is the embodiment of Coco Chanel’s

[NFHale]

Ah, yes... The “Nordic Uber Wench”...

I’m still damaged... she put the “faust” in my Panzerfaust...

[stephenjohnbanker]

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr !

[NFHale]

Yup.

That was the sound she made. You DO know her...
:^)

[stephenjohnbanker]

She got around........

[NFHale]

RE Got Around:

She conquered France in three days...

[stephenjohnbanker]

One helluva chick!

[NFHale]

I heard she’s in Siberia now... changed her name to “Ludmilla”, defected to The Dark Side, and is now keeping the comrades in the gulags warm...

[...God help them...]

[stephenjohnbanker]

Note to self: “ Short all Siberian stocks across the board!

[MeganC]

Camille Paglia is proof of what I say that there is nothing feminine about feminism! Paglia hates Taylor because Taylor is comfortable with her femininity and because Taylor isn’t a dried-up, man-hating, lesbian hag like Paglia is.

[dfwgator]

Of all of Rush’s Undeniable Truths, #24 is the Truthiest.

[GOPsterinMA]

WB Taylor Swift...

[The Toll]

Self Made and In Charge? Really? HA! What an idiot.

[jmacusa]

So she’s asexual?

[SoCal Pubbie]

Taylor Swift is flat chested!

[presidio9]

In all probability, none of the photos you saw of Paglia were taken when she was under 45.

You know Steve, from time to time all of us occasionally post something really dumb to FR. And it's not like social media, where you can go back and delete your posts. But the trick is to move on from the thread. Doubling, tripling and quintupling down only calls attention to the original stupidity.

So, I can't believe we're still talking about this, but here is an under 45 picture of Paglia. As is the case with most devoted feminists, she was never a particularly attractive woman.

Swift, will indeed grow older, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if she ages well. A lot of small breasted women do. In the meantime, she is widely considered one of the more attractive women in entertainment, is a self-made billionaire who does a lot of charitable work, and doesn't smoke, drink, use drugs or corrupt girls with hypersexual behavior. The world would be a much better place if there were more Taylor Swifts .

Agreed that Paglia is occasionally spot on in her commentary, but she is dead wrong here.

[luvie]

Paglia who?

Really.

[Vinnie]

Taylor must have refused Camille’s advances.
Hell hath no fury .........

[PGalt]

Thanks much for the quotes, BenLurkin. I’ve read a handful of Paglia’s articles over the years and was not familiar with this line of thinking. Sheesh. (I guess I’m too busy enjoying life, wife, kids, family and friends too keep up with every aggrieved individual, especially ones who are not a direct threat to my wife, kids, family and friends.)