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Taylor Swift shows real class despite cheap shots from famed feminist
New York Post ^ | December 18, 2015 | Chelsea Samelson

Posted on 12/21/2015 5:29:52 PM PST by 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

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: camillepaglia; catfight; jealousy; taylorswift
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1 posted on 12/21/2015 5:29:52 PM PST by presidio9
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To: beaversmom; MeganC; Yaelle; Norm Lenhart

Return Salvo Ping!


2 posted on 12/21/2015 5:31:44 PM PST by KC_Lion (The fences are going up all over Europe. We shall not see them down again in our lifetime.)
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To: presidio9

Swift did it all without Paglia’s help.


3 posted on 12/21/2015 5:33:44 PM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: presidio9

I don’t know that much about her except for the videos I see at the gym. She seems very talented and is very beautiful. The comment about her was a shocking smear. How completely rude.


4 posted on 12/21/2015 5:36:40 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: presidio9

More proof that Feminism is at a dead end. I mean really, Taylor Swift? Huge source of misogyny there! /s

People need to stop giving these loons their money and attention.


5 posted on 12/21/2015 5:37:29 PM PST by Shadow44
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To: Farmer Dean

I would probably side with Paglia on this issue without knowing what the issue is. Paglia is one of the few honest leftist


6 posted on 12/21/2015 5:37:44 PM PST by Fai Mao (Just a tropical gardiner chatting with friends)
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To: presidio9
Posted here under another title.
7 posted on 12/21/2015 5:38:11 PM PST by Carry_Okie (Islam offers choices: convert, submit, kill them, or die.)
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To: presidio9

All one needs for an explanation here is to look at the two of them. The reason for the outrage becomes quite obvious.


8 posted on 12/21/2015 5:38:31 PM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: presidio9
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.

All true. But people who write about music like to write about suffering and failure. They think it conveys authenticity. If Robert Johnson or Blind Lemon Jefferson were successful, in charge, fiercely independent and running his own brand with an I-make-my-own-decisions attitude, he wouldn't have had much of a following among music critics.

9 posted on 12/21/2015 5:41:11 PM PST by x
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To: Fai Mao

“I would probably side with Paglia on this issue without knowing what the issue is. Paglia is one of the few honest leftist”

Yeah, and Bigfoot is one of the few honest forest creatures.


10 posted on 12/21/2015 5:43:42 PM PST by jessduntno (The mind of a liberal...deceit, desire for control, greed, contradiction and fueled by hate.)
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To: presidio9

Women execs will tell you their biggest detractors are other women. I never heard of Camille, but it’s clear she is jealous of Taylor’s success.


11 posted on 12/21/2015 5:43:58 PM PST by HonkyTonkMan
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To: HonkyTonkMan

‘’Women execs will tell you their biggest detractors are other women.’’

And women employees’ biggest detractors are female bosses.


12 posted on 12/21/2015 5:45:37 PM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: presidio9

Paglia used to be interesting. Now she sounds like a bitter, jealous old dyke. She wishes she could hang around with Taylor and her friends.


13 posted on 12/21/2015 5:47:05 PM PST by Hugin ("First thing--get yourself a firearm!" Sheriff Ed Galt, Last Man Standing.)
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To: Fai Mao

If a young woman like Taylor Swift can achieve what she has on her own,it begs the question what purpose do women like Paglia have?


14 posted on 12/21/2015 5:47:40 PM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: goodwithagun
PAGLIA



SWIFT


15 posted on 12/21/2015 5:49:09 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: presidio9

Swift is a fourth-wave feminist—and Paglia completely doesn’t get it.


16 posted on 12/21/2015 5:49:29 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Farmer Dean

Paglia is a top notch essayist. I can disagree with her and still enjoy her opinions most of the time as they give something to consider. She is also not as liberal as she pretends to be and has stood up for several conservative causes most notably the campus fascist anti-Free speech codes.

Taylor Swift make her living off her looks coupled with an auto-tune. If she were flat chested she’d work at KFC. If that sound cruel so be it.


17 posted on 12/21/2015 5:52:54 PM PST by Fai Mao (Just a tropical gardiner chatting with friends)
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To: presidio9
...famed feminist critic Camille Paglia published a shockingly scathing attack on Swift, calling her a blond, elitist ''Nazi Barbie''.

That wasn't very nice.

18 posted on 12/21/2015 5:54:10 PM PST by rdb3 (Cool. All I know is, no, you can't use it.)
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To: Fai Mao

I disagree. Obviously it’s what propelled her to her current role, but she was somewhat successful prior in her dweeby country persona.


19 posted on 12/21/2015 5:59:17 PM PST by Shadow44
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To: presidio9

I recently saw personal phone photos on facebook of Taylor Swift visiting a young cancer-stricken child.

The photos showed enough to demonstrate these aren’t one-minute photo ops.

So that was nice.


20 posted on 12/21/2015 6:00:50 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Life is good.)
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