Feminists silent on Taylor Swift

[Redstreak 6,653]

Am I missing something? I was under the impression that, now more than ever, feminists were loud and present and defensive. I thought I was seeing a wave of even braver men and women on social media, calling out bullshit and striking down misogyny. I thought the last nine months built an online army of journalists and Twitter users and anyone else who’s fed up with sexism and its disturbing presence in the administration, fighting every day against the trails of normalized misogyny Trump leaves behind and defending the women who speak out about it.

But there’s a ringing silence now. And it’s looming around Taylor Swift’s groping trial. A woman who is constantly attacked for being silent is now getting the worst of it.

Colorado DJ David Mueller is suing Swift for $3 million in damages after she alleged that her lifted her skirt and grabbed her during a meet-and-greet photo op. Mueller was fired soon after, and sued Swift, her mother, and her radio promotions director for defamation.

As much as grabbing women in sexual violation has been dismissed and normalized by our country’s leaders and its people, it’s an issue of sexual assault that made Andrea Swift want to “vomit and cry at the same time” seeing the look on her daughter’s face post-backstage incident.

Firsthand, I’ve seen girls run out of clubs in a heartbreaking tearful mixture of shock, fury and disturbance after a man grabbed them sexually without any form of consent. I’ve seen girls weakly laugh it off because they think that’s what they’re supposed to do. I’ve seen them stammer excuse after excuse after excuse, because they’re taught to search for anything to blame but themselves.

I’ve also seen girls, on and offline, race to the defense of those who were violated. I’ve seen them deliver completely scathing responses to regular people and political leaders alike who try to dismiss a woman’s story of sexual assault in any way or call it anything less than it is.

These people I’ve seen are incredibly vocal. They like to hold others accountable, and they spend a really admirable amount of energy spouting their support to women, famous and not, who choose to speak out about their sexual assault experience.

Let’s just take Ke$ha’s trial, shall we? Tons of celebrities, journalists and everyone in between shouted their encouragement, their disgust at her alleged abuser. Adele used her acceptance speech at the 2016 Brit Awards to publicly express her support of Ke$ha. Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande, Snoop Dogg, Kelly Clarkson, Lorde and a clump of other pop stars (apologies to Snoop Dogg and his admirers for grouping him into a ‘pop stars’ category) used Twitter to do the same.

And then, two days after a New York judge denied Ke$ha a court injunction, Taylor Swift donated $250,000 towards any of Ke$ha’s financial needs. Kind, right? Nope, no one seemed to think so. Internet users everywhere shamed Swift for her donation, including the “I-always-know-the-best-thing-to-say-on-the-Internet” Demi Lovato.

Lovato Tweeted “Take something to Capitol Hill or actually speak out about something and then I’ll be impressed.” This attitude was reiterated widely across Twitter, because it’s Twitter. And also because Taylor Swift, no matter what on the Lord’s green Earth she does, cannot win. But that’s another story that would take pages and pages to tell, so I’ll refrain myself.

Swift was ripped apart for “silence” after her donation. She was also ripped apart for her “silence” during the Women’s March. She Tweeted about it, celebrating the day and expressing her pride in everyone who marched. But of course that wasn’t enough, because it never is. She was annihilated for not going to her local march. (Even though she’s one of most papped and stalked celebrities in the industry and could probably not go to a march without people harassing her and/or accusing her of going for attention and a photo op, but whatever it’s fine.)

Before my fury completely takes over my fingers and I start to type a fuming address to everyone who continually hates this girl because it’s what they’ve been in the habit of doing since 2012, let me take it back to the trial.

I’ve never heard silence quite this loud. (I hate myself, that is a Taylor Swift lyric, whatever.) It’s obvious, and not just to me.

Yes, @Iwatcheditbegin, everyone is a feminist until it comes to Taylor Swift. This has been proven to me enough times to make me scream internally while staring at Tumblr.com. Demi, is your Internet down? Or are you in a plane on the way to Capitol Hill to discuss sexual assault and actually impress someone?

Where is everyone? Where are the mighty feminists I so admire, I so try to be? Suddenly they aren’t as loud.

But Taylor Swift, no matter what card you think she plays, is a forcibly strong human being. To be hunted down every day physically and on the Internet, to be mocked at absolutely every turn, you can’t be a weak person. You just can’t.

Swift only countersued for $1. Before you open your mouth or press that little blue button in the corner to compose a Tweet, close it and take your hands off the keyboard. She’s not doing this for the money. Her mother wanted to keep it private until DJ Mueller sued. She’s doing this to show every other girl who watches her with adoring eyes and the ones who pretend they don’t that you can report your sexual assault. You can hold the person accountable. She’s showing men who mock her for her dating life but objectify her at the same time that they will not be tolerated. And it’s being met with silence. But we’ve known since the early days of 2010 that silence doesn’t follow Taylor Alison Swift for long, and it won’t now.

 

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[gagarox 1,495]

Because she is a trump supporter. Its that simple. She never spoke a word against trump so why should i or anyone bother with her problems..

[CommonWhiteGirl 1,039]

When did the trial start? Because I actually didn't hear anything about it until today when I was scrolling through Twitter. It is kinda weird how everyone's very silent on the issue. 

Maybe it has something to do with her reputation because it's not squeaky clean and I don't think she's extremely well liked in the industry (in terms of other celebrities and the GP liking her).  

[ALGAYDO 30,328]

T is strictly a commercial force. She may as well be a POC-Feminist-Rights extremist, but her paychecks and her fame seem more important to her, right? So she'll keep dodging political questions and continue being a SUPER vague force in the WHITE-Feminist movement. 

Because, as far as morals go, they're limited to money. She is a GRAND example of this, tbh 

[Redstreak 6,653]

5 minutes ago, HOMODRAKE said:

T is strictly a commercial force. She may as well be a POC-Feminist-Rights extremist, but her paychecks and her fame seem more important to her, right? So she'll keep dodging political questions and continue being a SUPER vague force in the WHITE-Feminist movement. 

Because, as far as morals go, they're limited to money. She is a GRAND example of this, tbh 

She's counter suing for $1 against a guy who's suing her for 3 million so nothing of what you just said makes any sense.

[Whispering 18,865]

16 minutes ago, alejandro24 said:

Because she is a trump supporter. Its that simple. She never spoke a word against trump so why should i or anyone bother with her problems..

I don't think you can jump to that conclusion. She follows the rule that most country stars have learned...never get too political! She did support The Women's March and that was anti-Trump. 

[Whispering 18,865]

I think people are preoccupied with Trump, Russia, North Korea and the threat of war. That's all I see on my timelines right now. It's like our government has become the most bizarre reality show and everyone in the country is watching it. 

[BELINDA POP 1,123]

Show support and then we'll support you. She has never supported women and instead she puts one against each other supports the biggest pusszyy grabber and expects change? I don't think so!! Not on my watch!

[Thomas P 18,469]

I'll support her but I wouldn't expect much else from others. 

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27 minutes ago, HOMODRAKE said:

T is strictly a commercial force. She may as well be a POC-Feminist-Rights extremist, but her paychecks and her fame seem more important to her, right? So she'll keep dodging political questions and continue being a SUPER vague force in the WHITE-Feminist movement. 

Because, as far as morals go, they're limited to money. She is a GRAND example of this, tbh 

 

32 minutes ago, alejandro24 said:

Because she is a trump supporter. Its that simple. She never spoke a word against trump so why should i or anyone bother with her problems..

 

Just because you don't know her personal life doesn't mean shes just a commercial force or a trump supporter, etc. I'm not that big of a fan of hers but its kinda unfair to judge her like this

[Andrea B 16,460]

57 minutes ago, alejandro24 said:

Because she is a trump supporter. Its that simple. She never spoke a word against trump so why should i or anyone bother with her problems..

 

 

 

WHAT? all her friends supported Hilary and they had dinner together the day of the election if I remember correctly. She even posted a photo of Hilary Clinton on her IG. She never said she was going to vote for her but also she never claim she was a trump supporter, in fact, she's an LGBTQ supporter, she has tweeted about BLM and believes in gender equality. trump is against of all of her beliefs. stop being so ignorant. 

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[Andrea B 16,460]

People are so dumb   they just hate her because she had a feud WITH ANOTHER PERSON. 

34 minutes ago, gordo said:

Show support and then we'll support you. She has never supported women and instead she puts one against each other supports the biggest pusszyy grabber and expects change? I don't think so!! Not on my watch!

 

 

 

yall fake and hypocrite. She doesn't support trump.  she deserve what? people not supporting her for being sexually assaulted or the sexual assault? I'm so sick of this site. She has shown support to the LGBTQ community, she wrote welcome to new york when same sex marriage became legal in NYC because she felt inspired and she has talked/tweeted several times about the LGBTQ community. I'm so done with you all  

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[Nicogly 2,579]

I hope that Taylor gets the justice she deserves after the assault. As for the silence, social media isnt everything, I'm sure many celebrities have reached out at a personal level (privately) 

[AJH219 4,448]

I've really not heard about this alleged incident until now. And it's fascinating how her supposed silence on the current political climate in America is enough to accuse of her of supporting Trump. Remember, actions speak louder than words. We don't know what she does privately. But even if she did support him, it doesn't mean she deserves sexual harassment.

[Yuuri 21,636]

43 minutes ago, alejandro24 said:

Because she is a trump supporter. Its that simple. She never spoke a word against trump so why should i or anyone bother with her problems..

 

22 minutes ago, gordo said:

supports the biggest pusszyy grabber

Do either of you have a shred of evidence to back up your claims that she supports Trump?

40 minutes ago, HOMODRAKE said:

So she'll keep dodging political questions and continue being a SUPER vague force in the WHITE-Feminist movement. 

It's not her job to be political, if Taylor wants to show off her political side she can.

I find it so hypocritical that y'all support Kesha and Gaga when they came out that they were assulted, but bat an eye at Taylor. Yes Taylor wasn't penetrated, but isn't someone touching you without your permission assult? And can all of you stop acting like she killed the most important thing in your life? That fued with Kayne and Katy, are likely fake, both created to draw attention to them, it's bussiness.