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Eras Tour- Glendale + Detroit 🫶 25 | she/her

[1989taylorsversion]

Big Machine (derogatory)

[cages-boxes-hunters-foxes]

cowboy like me being one of the most romantic songs of all time actually

correct

[cages-boxes-hunters-foxes]

I have been listening to ttpd all week and it just blows me away how vulnerable she was. Also, anyone still trying to sell that she and Marty were soulmate twin flames hasn’t listened to the words.

she was extremely isolated and very sick and he read those vulnerabilities for filth and had her drinking out of the palm of his hand as a result. just a really horrible situation

[cages-boxes-hunters-foxes]

“but loneliness struck at that fateful hour, low hanging fruit on HIS wine stained lips.”. i’ve seen people misinterpret this line, but she is literally referring to herself as the low hanging fruit. she was lonely which made her vulnerable and he took advantage. it’s why anyone who sees any romance there is sick to me lmao, it was intentional manipulation.

she was a conquest made to believe otherwise

[maryoliveoil]

Also loved that it actually is Woke Odyssey. Not in a "we cast black and trans actors" way but in a "this is a movie about man's hubris, the disregard for and destruction of social contracts, the disdain with which we treat the living and the dead, the violence we wage against each other, the way we become enraptured with 'great' instead of 'right,' and the way all of that degrades the soul of man" way

[cages-boxes-hunters-foxes]

i loved your hostile takeovers, encounters closed and closer, all your indecent exposures, how dare you say that it’s—

[stillgotscars]

today marks 3 years since taylor said the words below at kansas city n2 after messing up the lyrics of last kiss, not knowing her future husband was there in the crowd… the universe works in mysterious and beautiful ways

[coldasyou]

what does the wedding mean for evermore long pond studio session

[natalieironside]

I think the aversion in our society to coming up w/ utilitarian answers to ethical questions (my favorite hobby) has caused us to cede way too much ground to the assholes of the world in the vein of "Evil will always triumph because good is dumb," as Dark Helmet put it. Like.

Laypeople (and also a concerning number of scientists) have often got the idea that unethical human experimentation is some sort of ultra-effective super science that would fix all the disease and discover all of the medicine and we only don't do it because it isn't nice (see: every science fiction show ever). No! Jumping straight from abstract theory to human trials is a terrible way to do science. It produces incoherent results and useless observations and nonsensical conclusions. We have pages and pages of historical precedent demonstrating this.

And lots of people have got the idea that totalitarianism is some sort of magic super-government that does all the government stuff really effectively abd efficiently and we only don't do it because it isn't nice. No!!!! "Let's put one idiot in charge and do whatever dumb shit they say" is the worst way to organize any project at all, let alone an economy and a political machine. Fascist regimes are models of corruption, waste, and inefficiency.

And so on

[itsabear]

mengela discovered nothing. 731 discovered nothing. Residential school trials discovered nothing. Unethical medical trials are just cruelty by mediocre people. None of the doctors in these unethical trials were outstanding students or notable doctors. We dont need science fiction we just need history and honesty.

[natalieironside]

In addition to its being niceys, ethics is a form of rigor. Someone who disregards ethics is (1) Doing It Wrong and (2) just as likely to disregard any other forms of rigor they decide they don't like.

[stuckinthistaydream]

I also think many people (including fans sadly enough) resent that they can't shame Taylor out of her personality. That no matter how many times they call her cringe or a loser or tone deaf or tell her they hate something, she doesn't try to make herself smaller or quieter anymore. It makes me think again of how she said she/celebrities are a mirror for how people feel about themselves. And I think it makes people resentful when someone who is simultaneously the most famous (and criticized) woman in the world and someone they feel personally superior to (in taste or personality or cool factor or whatever else), does not care at all about clean girl/quiet luxury/etcetc tiktok trends. And that forces them to acknowledge that they care a lot about what the internet tells them to like or dislike and that's not very nonchalant above-it-all cool girl of them!

you’re so fucking right and you should SHOUT IT

[cages-boxes-hunters-foxes]

a really important thing all the medical professionals who helped me as i recovered from cancer emphasised is the idea that, regardless of guidelines, something is better than nothing. like, when i'd be depressed about how weak i was, they'd praise me for being able to walk to the bathroom unaided. and they were always so happy to see me eating, no matter what it was, because i struggled to eat anything for so long. while obviously specific exercises and diets are great if you can do it, there's such a mentality online that (intentionally or not) shames people who can't when really the focus should be on doing what you can and celebrating that, even if its the bare minimum, at least you're trying

!!!!!!!!!

[w0nderland]

the body glitter in the opalite video vs the glitter blood in antihero. just mulling things over

[json-derulo]

I'm not gonna articulate this well, but there's this phenomenon I keep seeing on the left that I'll call "bean soup rhetoric," wherein someone fails to understand that they are not the target audience for a particular message, or just can't conceptualize why a speaker would craft their message differently to resonate with a target audience that doesn't already completely agree with them.

"The 'God Made Trans People' billboard is stupid! God didn't make me! I'm an atheist!" Okay. The billboard sits along a major highway in Kansas. We can deduce that the target audience is not you—it's the centrist evangelical Christians driving along that road who could probably be persuaded to become allies as long as we choose our words carefully and don't make them feel attacked for not already knowing everything about trans rights issues. Another one I see a lot is, "We shouldn't be talking about how right-wing legislation catches [privileged in-group] in the crossfire when [marginalized out-group] suffers far more!" I know. I agree with you. Which is why you and I are not the intended audience of this argument!

The entire point of rhetoric is to win over someone who doesn't already fully agree with you. In this case, let's say that someone is Jennifer, the moderate center-right mom in your neighborhood who doesn't really know or care about transgender issues but would be absolutely horrified by the idea of her teenage daughter having to submit to an invasive inspection of her body just to be allowed to play soccer. Tell her, "Banning trans students from sports will inevitably subject all student athletes to invasive gender-policing," or "Legal restrictions on gender-affirming care will make it harder for you to access the hormone replacement therapy you take to treat menopause symptoms," and she is more likely to question her existing beliefs and listen to the rest of what you have to say than if you lead with leftist talking points that she already has a calcified opinion about or which she thinks do not personally affect her.

Tailoring the argument to the things she already cares about does not mean we're forgetting that she has more privilege than most—entirely the opposite, in fact. A privileged ally can be extremely valuable. Jennifer votes in every election. And so do all the other ladies at her book club, and church, and in the PTA, and those folks listen to Jennifer. There's a reason both parties were courting suburban women so hard in the last election cycle! If we can find common ground with her on this, if we can get her calling her representatives and talking to her friends and phone-banking and door-knocking and making a stink, that's how the needle starts to move. If I can convince her to take her support away from the candidates who are actively restricting my rights and throw it toward those who want to restore and expand those rights...then I'm sorry, but Jennifer is a more valuable ally to me than the people who agree that the legal boundaries of gender ought to be abolished altogether but refuse to actually do anything except complain online about how both sides are equally bad because the right is trying to force everyone to drink the cyanide kool-aid while the left keeps serving bean soup and they don't like bean soup

[vaspider]

"Meet people where they are" is Activism 101, and people seem to be allergic to seeing that this is exactly that.

"Bean Soup Rhetoric" is a very good concept.

[thediscossessed]

And I hope all my big girls lose all fear of taking up space. Fat women are discouraged for their existence on every level of society but we are beautiful and make the world worth living in.

[cages-boxes-hunters-foxes]

we haven’t talked about taylor mentioning in the NYT interview that a lot of songs are her dancing around something until the bridge where she says it outright - a quirk we’ve talked about loving on here for years!

[blankspace-sydney]

today was the deadline for justin baldoni’s crisis pr smear people to release their client list oh everyone else they’ve done smear campaigns on behalf of btw. that’s why they settled

[darkbluetennessee]

i know this is silly but i love when taylor gets to do normal stuff. especially having lived so long thinking she could only do normal things when her life was a shrunken, hollowed-out version of itself, and now it's big and flourishing and she's STILL able to do normal stuff like go see her friend's play. just makes me so happy for her idk idk

[darkbluetennessee]

#the monsters turned out to be just trees 😵‍💫