@georgetakei@universeodon.com My wife and I don't hate her. We acknowledge her talent. We simply don't see that she warrants all the attention. The constant TS news, especially the gushing, is tiresome.
However, that may be just a sign of the times. The polarized digital age where you are either 0 or 1, left or right, up or down with no comfortable center.
@georgetakei@universeodon.com “she got a lot of young people to register to vote” that is exactly their problem. They know young people don’t vote for them.
@georgetakei@universeodon.com The right operates on a zero sum game. If some one else is happy, it steals some of their happiness. It is pretty miserable existence.
@georgetakei@universeodon.com For some time now, it's been a popular pastime to see others hating someone, and jump on the bandwagon just to be a part of it. There have been a lot of celebrities over the last few years that have been on the receiving end of some very unearned vitriol.
A hijab is a very visible "unavailable, unattainable" marker, which is intolerable to anyone with patriarchal supremacist beliefs.
Even the usual run of fact-averse folks on the right can't delude themselves into believing they're in Ms. Swift's league, so it's the same "unavailable, unattainable" presence and the same "this is not how I command the world to be organized" tantrum.
I think it's about control - she is young and has wealth and defies how they think women "should" behave and they can't stop it and it drives them crazy.
And that's fantastic. Every bit of humility we can inject into the lives of the haters is useful.
@georgetakei@universeodon.com not justifying the hate, but just a reminder you could have said a lot of those things about JKR a decade ago. #FuckJKRowling
@georgetakei@universeodon.com I’m not really a Taylor Swift fan (I think I can name about three of her songs) but I greatly admire her as a business person.
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There's gotta be a "Force for the Good" and a "Force for the Bad" to sell tickets to a movie or political drama in an election year.
Seriously, where would Luke be without Darth Vader?
@georgetakei@universeodon.com I feel like people started hating her when she was still a teenager and spoke out against the 30-something year old man who was more popular and successful than her who dated her and treated her like crap.
And honestly people still seem way more pressed over who she's dating or not dating and the fact that she's not married than they do over her success. I mean she was America's sweetheart before she started speaking out against men.
@georgetakei@universeodon.com I don’t know the first thing about her music or her personally. I wouldn’t be able to identify her if she stood in front of me. But she seems to be a big deal in the USA and the USA is so polarised these days it is of no surprise people hate her. I assume the haters are those who adore the likes of Trump? I don’t get how anyone could hate any artist - you either enjoy them or you don’t. Where does hate come into it?