Yesterday an ex’s phone was somehow compromised, I don’t know how, I didn’t call her, but suddenly her Instagram was flooded with naked pictures and videos and whatever I suppose was on her camera that would be considered private. It made me angry as it should make everyone. This is, of course, the sort of thing that only really happens to women. Be it revenge from someone who felt wronged or a stranger who found her phone this is still very much an action we would take against women. Call them whores or at least imply it. Stand in judgement even as we giggle with glee and titillation. That is why Taylor Swift is here, not because she has nudes out there, she doesn’t as far as I know so you can stop googling and keep reading. No, she is here because she has had this sort of public rehabilitation of image which is great but at the same time a lot of what lead up to it was the public bullying a young woman in a way only a woman would be bullied. After all, Derek Jeter is celebrated for how often he’s a love em and leave em kinda guy. He gives gift baskets afterwards. Now, I did think at the time and still do some of the emotion just felt false to me because I was 20 once and every break up sucks but not every break up can really be the worst thing that ever happened to you. But I was also 20 once and I remeber everything seemed to matter a whole lot more. And I probably would have been way worse at making everything an over dramatic slight if I was writing songs. Young people are in love with romantic woundings and making ourselves seem like emotional cripples because of what that guy/girl/whomever did to us. So it would be foolish to look back and not think the hostility we threw her way was related to her being a talented and successful woman. I guess that is what I am thinking about today. And why Taylor Swift is on my mind because , and I have pointed this out before, we did wrong her and I do feel bad about that. I doubt she really needs me to make anything up to her but it’s the kind of thing that is important to acknowledge. It’s how you prevent repeating your mistakes, you admit them. Today I want to fuck Taylor Swift.
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