Undergrads, start your theses. Once again, Taylor Swift has publicly commented on her personal relationship with feminism, and, for most of us hopefully, what she says is illuminating.
“As a teenager, I didn’t understand that saying you’re a feminist is just saying that you hope women and men will have equal rights and equal opportunities,” the “Shake It Off” singer told The Guardian’s Hermione Hoby in an interview published on Friday, August 22.
“What it seemed to me, the way it was phrased in culture, society, was that you hate men. And now, I think a lot of girls have had a feminist awakening because they understand what the word means. For so long it’s been made to seem like something where you’d picket against the opposite sex, whereas it’s not about that at all.”
Swift continues: “Becoming friends with Lena [Dunham, the creator and star of HBO's "Girls"] — without her preaching to me, but just seeing why she believes what she believes, why she says what she says, why she stands for what she stands for — has made me [realize] that I’ve been taking a feminist stance without actually saying so.” The 2014 MTV Video Music Awards performer is probably referring to songs about not getting hung up on some ex like “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” her strong history of supporting other young women like Lorde, Dunham, and Rookie founder Tavi Gevinson, ...
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