First of all, Swifty’s do not come for me! I may be writing this article, but it does not mean that I agree with this title. It’s serving internalized misogyny. I also want to preface this by saying there is no such thing as a bad feminist- unless you aren’t one. It may be trendy and cool to be one at the moment (a significant win for society). Still, I do believe that most of us have the proper morals and beliefs and are in it for the greater good- we are just finally having a large number of conversations exercising our thoughts, which is well overdue.
Back to Miss Swift, T Swift has been openly feminist before it was trending. In 2012, when talking to The Daily Face, Swift was asked if she considered herself a feminist. She said, ‘I don’t really think about things as guys versus girls’; however, two years later, she clarified, telling the Guardian, ‘I don’t, and I didn’t understand that saying you’re a feminist is you’re saying that you hope women and men will have equal rights and equal opportunities; I’ve been taking a feminist without actually saying so’. Being a feminist is not all about having the label- it’s about having the right morals, which Taylor Swift and so many of us always had before we knew it was so important to be actively and openly exercising our views.
Whether you like the Woman’s music or not, I think we all can respect the amazing career that she has built and still has. In 2023 alone, Swift claimed the most number-one albums by a woman in history, the most streamed country album in a single day on Spotify and the first concert tour ever to gross $1 billion in sales. Not only is it a win for Swift, but it is a win for womanhood. Swift writes and performs openly about the heartbreaks she’s had and times she had been done wrong by a man, and her stats prove that so many of us can relate. You must be a pretty empowering and inspiring woman to gross over a billion dollars on a tour attended by primarily females. Remember, guys, there was a time when music like hers would not even get radio time. Things are nowhere near equal, but things are evolving for the better as a mass. Once upon a time, we could not vote, and now the biggest performer in the world is a young female who sings about shitty exes in bedazzled leotards. That’s fucking awesome.
Honestly, I’m not much of a T Swift fan; however, I did do a deep dive on everything controversial she’s ever done. According to the Internet, the most controversial thing she’s ever done is dated as many people as she should. It does not make her any less of a feminist that her songs are about men, which a few uneducated journalists have written about *Sorry, not sorry*.
The main takeaway from this is that Taylor is an outstanding feminist in the way she uses her platform to talk about issues so greatly affecting females and how she empowers women to live in their truth. You also don’t have to be Taylor Swift to be a great feminist; every feminist would agree that it’s not a competition or something we should judge people on a scale of good-‘bad’. Chur.
