Guardian: As Gaga once was, Taylor is now viewed as a snake

[Redstreak 6,653]

The snake eating its own tail in Swift’s lyric video is a genius symbol for the hatred without any logical end or beginning; misogyny is always a self-fulfilling aim. It’s an infinitely repeating cycle – it wasn’t so many decades ago that Monica Lewinsky was the snake and Hillary Clinton was the contrasting archetype of purity. Before Swift, it was Lady Gaga or Lana Del Rey being slammed as fake and phony. Now they’ve miraculously fallen back into favour, but for how long? Women are swapped in and out of roles in the machinery of patriarchal society and its race to destroy them.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/30/taylor-swift-snake-woman-misogyny-look-what-you-made-me-do

 

I encourage everyone to read the full article. It goes really in depth and is very well written

 

[HauntingHollow 4,310]

WHAT THE **** ? 

[Karl 3,421]

Interesting article 

[Luke78619 23,383]

When was Gaga ever called a snake 

[Renly 343]

45 minutes ago, Redstreak said:

The snake eating its own tail in Swift’s lyric video is a genius symbol for the hatred without any logical end or beginning; misogyny is always a self-fulfilling aim. It’s an infinitely repeating cycle – it wasn’t so many decades ago that Monica Lewinsky was the snake and Hillary Clinton was the contrasting archetype of purity. Before Swift, it was Lady Gaga or Lana Del Rey being slammed as fake and phony. Now they’ve miraculously fallen back into favour, but for how long? Women are swapped in and out of roles in the machinery of patriarchal society and its race to destroy them.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/30/taylor-swift-snake-woman-misogyny-look-what-you-made-me-do

 

I encourage everyone to read the full article. It goes really in depth and is very well written

 

"Now they’ve miraculously fallen back into favour". No, Gaga fought hard. It wasn't a miracle. And she still gets hate 24/7. 

Other than that, interesting article. I don't like Taylor that much AND she is two-faced, but it's pretty clear how misogynistic the GP/media is. 

[Whispering 18,865]

"Swift’s imagery is too spine-tinglingly salient to be accidental – “you said the gun was mine” expertly captures the way the misogynist society conjures up incriminations to vilify, demonise and discredit women.

Swift knows she can’t win, so she is content to play up to whatever role will bring her temporarily back into favour – “I’ll be the actress, starring in your bad dreams”. Swift knows her reputation is out of her own hands. Yes, Swift’s new single is a diss track, but she’s dissing us. And we probably deserve it."

[Mirages 20,259]

Sad, but tru, no lies detected, at least we are talking about it! 

[Jinzo 9,639]

I read this article earlier today and it's on point  

[MJHolland 12,725]

What.... no ones dislikes Taylor because she's a woman... people dislike her because she lied in public to put down Kanye West, and bullies Katy Perry by abandoning her own promises and values to release all her music on Spotify/streaming right when Katy's album dropped. 

People dislike her bc she's done mean things...

Get out of here with the patriarchy bullsh*t. It's phony articles like this that make it hard to call out actually misogyny, which there is plenty of. 

[monsterdino 31,997]

Nope, you can not compare Gaga and Taylor together

 

Who did Taylor pay for this articale?

[MJHolland 12,725]

When the gp turns of Justin Bieber or Ed Sheeran, it's not bc they hate men...

[SamJ 8,008]

4 minutes ago, MJHolland said:

When the gp turns of Justin Bieber or Ed Sheeran, it's not bc they hate men...

Justin deserves to be liked forever 

[Redstreak 6,653]

5 minutes ago, MJHolland said:

When the gp turns of Justin Bieber or Ed Sheeran, it's not bc they hate men...

Justin still gets hit after hit after hit. If a female pop star had done even a tenth of what he's done their career would be OVER irrevocably.

[SlaeUrAnus 15,982]

12 minutes ago, MJHolland said:

When the gp turns of Justin Bieber or Ed Sheeran, it's not bc they hate men...

Female artists have always been subjected to scrutiny by the public though. One of the few male artists who was constantly scrutinised by the GP/media was MJ.

[Chromatislaps 34,851]

Just now, SlaeUrAnus said:

Female artists have always been subjected to scrutiny by the public though. The only male artist who was constantly scrutinised by the GP/media was MJ.

preach