Thank you for this! It's awesome to have the opportunity to contemplate this in a more nuanced way, because I have basically no interest in Taylor Swift. So I'm basically acting as a witness with lots of detachment at play, because I feel so neutral toward her. All I really see from my sphere of disinterest are reactions to her acting as mirrors of the general state of society. Mostly I see leftists pointing out her climate abuses in admonishing ways (this speaks to the moralizers post you put out a few weeks ago) and those who are just clinging onto late stage capitalism focusing so much on who she's dating/who her friends are and what they do together. To me this all shows the power that women have in our society to activate literally everyone and their mothers to have something to say about their sheer existence. It's wild and all just makes me want to get offline and focus my attention on growing plants and building relationships with my neighbors.
That's a really good point, another good third thing that's happening beyond just sexism or just celebrity culture, but 'the power that women have in our society to activate literally everyone and their mothers.' There's something really interesting there, I'll have to keep thinking on it! Thanks for engaging, as always~
Thank you for this! It's awesome to have the opportunity to contemplate this in a more nuanced way, because I have basically no interest in Taylor Swift. So I'm basically acting as a witness with lots of detachment at play, because I feel so neutral toward her. All I really see from my sphere of disinterest are reactions to her acting as mirrors of the general state of society. Mostly I see leftists pointing out her climate abuses in admonishing ways (this speaks to the moralizers post you put out a few weeks ago) and those who are just clinging onto late stage capitalism focusing so much on who she's dating/who her friends are and what they do together. To me this all shows the power that women have in our society to activate literally everyone and their mothers to have something to say about their sheer existence. It's wild and all just makes me want to get offline and focus my attention on growing plants and building relationships with my neighbors.
That's a really good point, another good third thing that's happening beyond just sexism or just celebrity culture, but 'the power that women have in our society to activate literally everyone and their mothers.' There's something really interesting there, I'll have to keep thinking on it! Thanks for engaging, as always~
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