Right yāall, listen up ā Iām only going to say this once.Ā
People make mistakes ā of course they do. What Taylor is saying doesnāt mean that isnāt true. But people also change their minds, they change their perspectives.Ā
I mean, wouldnāt 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?Ā
Like, how donāt 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 werenāt in context. She never heard the lyric about beingĀ āThat Bitchā, therefore wasnāt degraded in the snippets that she heard. Ā Ā Ā Kanye lied to her, didnāt play her the song like he promised, called her a name in the song that is basically used in rap to be derogatory to womenā¦Ā
Taylor thought Kanye was her friend.Ā
(She was SO excited about finallyĀ being able to call someone she had idolised her friendĀ again, after heĀ embarrassed her so in 2009, you could tell),Ā
butĀ friends donāt record friends to manipulate and speculate a privateĀ situation in the media later ā nor do they call their friends insults in songs and not tell them about itā¦Ā
So, Taylor is right to say now that she was never really part of their narrative, because itās 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 canāt even be inspired by relationships anymore without being calledĀ āobsessiveā orĀ ācrazyā or ādesperateā, and yet some of you think itās okay for Kanye to do all this and more?
Donāt you see the issue here??????????
By supporting Kayne in this ā 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 ā you are supporting theĀ blatant arrogance and misogyny that keeps him where he is. Ā Ā
BecauseĀ Taylor is right ā Kanye and the media have been telling the world that itās not okay for Taylor to feel what she feels,Ā even though she has no more control over that than you or I do over our feelingsā¦Ā
Letting Kanye tell people how Taylor should feel about something he did to her? ThatāsĀ likeĀ letting someone whoĀ assaulted you, or punched you, or ran you over with their car,Ā speak for you about how YOU feel after they hurt you to a juryā¦Ā expect TaylorāsĀ jury is the entire world.
That is why I willĀ always stand with Taylor on this, because if I have have learned one thing in myĀ life, it is that misogyny is about telling women what they can and canāt feel / do / beĀ and unless we stand up to it in all its forms, sayĀ āenough is enoughāā¦ well, then it wouldnāt ever stop. Ā
After all, give an inch and arseholes will take a mile.Ā
And to all yāallĀ āfansā who areĀ destroying evidence of secret session photos, or ranting and raving about the womanĀ you have supposedlyĀ ālovedā like a friend until yesterdayā¦ā¦. I swear to god I better not see you back here when meet and greets roll around again, because itās an insult to those of us who would never be so insulting or hurtful or so downright disrespectful.
(And to Taylor, if youāre out there somewhere, reading all this, I just want to sayā¦ā¦. I love you so much my heart hurts that I canāt be by your side, that I canāt hug you and be there to rant with you about all this like a friend should. Ā Ā
Our fingerprints donāt fade from the lives we touchā¦. and I just want to take this moment to say thank you for touching mine @taylorswiftā).
I am a better person because of you, and I will stand with you always. Ā #IStandWithTaylor
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