Right y’all, listen up – I’m only going to say this once.
People make mistakes – of course they do. What Taylor is saying doesn’t mean that isn’t true. But people also change their minds, they change their perspectives.
I mean, wouldn’t you, if you found of the person you thought was your new friend was secretly recording you, as well as not keeping his promises about plying you the entire song?
Like, how don’t people see not hearing the full song adds a whole different context and slant to the words that Taylor heard in the phone call? By the sounds of it, they weren’t in context. She never heard the lyric about being ‘That Bitch’, therefore wasn’t degraded in the snippets that she heard. Kanye lied to her, didn’t play her the song like he promised, called her a name in the song that is basically used in rap to be derogatory to women…
Taylor thought Kanye was her friend.
(She was SO excited about finally being able to call someone she had idolised her friend again, after he embarrassed her so in 2009, you could tell),
but friends don’t record friends to manipulate and speculate a private situation in the media later – nor do they call their friends insults in songs and not tell them about it…
So, Taylor is right to say now that she was never really part of their narrative, because it’s the truth. Ever since then, he has used her to get publicity, and this has turned out just to be another one of those moments and highlights the main issue here:
Can you imagine the uproar if Taylor had done in 2016 what Kayne has done? Not only named a famous person in a song but insulted them without their permission???? Taylor can’t even be inspired by relationships anymore without being called “obsessive” or “crazy” or “desperate”, and yet some of you think it’s okay for Kanye to do all this and more?
Don’t you see the issue here??????????
By supporting Kayne in this – in the insulting a powerful woman in a lyric that would be heard the world over; the lack of permission to do so; the secret recording of the phone call; the naked depiction of her in the video – you are supporting the blatant arrogance and misogyny that keeps him where he is.
Because Taylor is right – Kanye and the media have been telling the world that it’s not okay for Taylor to feel what she feels, even though she has no more control over that than you or I do over our feelings…
Letting Kanye tell people how Taylor should feel about something he did to her? That’s like letting someone who assaulted you, or punched you, or ran you over with their car, speak for you about how YOU feel after they hurt you to a jury… expect Taylor’s jury is the entire world.
That is why I will always stand with Taylor on this, because if I have have learned one thing in my life, it is that misogyny is about telling women what they can and can’t feel / do / be and unless we stand up to it in all its forms, say “enough is enough”… well, then it wouldn’t ever stop.
After all, give an inch and arseholes will take a mile.
And to all y’all ‘fans’ who are destroying evidence of secret session photos, or ranting and raving about the woman you have supposedly ‘loved’ like a friend until yesterday……. I swear to god I better not see you back here when meet and greets roll around again, because it’s an insult to those of us who would never be so insulting or hurtful or so downright disrespectful.
(And to Taylor, if you’re out there somewhere, reading all this, I just want to say……. I love you so much my heart hurts that I can’t be by your side, that I can’t hug you and be there to rant with you about all this like a friend should.
Our fingerprints don’t fade from the lives we touch…. and I just want to take this moment to say thank you for touching mine @taylorswift).
I am a better person because of you, and I will stand with you always. #IStandWithTaylor
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