@georgetakei@universeodon.com For some time now, it’s been a popular pastime to see others hating someone, and jump on the bandwagon just to be a part of it. There have been a lot of celebrities over the last few years that have been on the receiving end of some very unearned vitriol.

@georgetakei@universeodon.com and hating girls won’t never look like her and hating guys won’t never touch her. That’s also what turn them mad.

@georgetakei@universeodon.com Agreed, but could it also be because her music is mostly forgettable vanilla earwash?

@georgetakei@universeodon.com She encourages women to vote. A crime according to republicans.

@georgetakei@universeodon.com The right operates on a zero sum game. If some one else is happy, it steals some of their happiness. It is pretty miserable existence.

@georgetakei@universeodon.com It’s the same reason various folks on the right go berserk over hijabis.

A hijab is a very visible “unavailable, unattainable” marker, which is intolerable to anyone with patriarchal supremacist beliefs.

Even the usual run of fact-averse folks on the right can’t delude themselves into believing they’re in Ms. Swift’s league, so it’s the same “unavailable, unattainable” presence and the same “this is not how I command the world to be organized” tantrum.

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The ‘getting young people to vote’ bit might be a minus point for the Fox crowd, I’m thinking?

@georgetakei@universeodon.com I have heard, from a reliable source, that when she receives any form of negativity, she will simply shake it off.

@georgetakei@universeodon.com I’m not a hater.
I don’t like her though, since she flies way too much:
https://www.thenationalnews.com/travel/2022/07/30/a-listers-private-jets-ranked-by-most-polluting-with-taylor-swifts-plane-the-worst/
#climatechange

But observing from outside the US - the rightwing hates her guts for nebulous political reasons.

@georgetakei@universeodon.com The OP inadvertently outlined why certain factions can’t stand her …

@georgetakei@universeodon.com not justifying the hate, but just a reminder you could have said a lot of those things about JKR a decade ago. #FuckJKRowling

@georgetakei@universeodon.com I’m not really a Taylor Swift fan (I think I can name about three of her songs) but I greatly admire her as a business person.

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There’s gotta be a “Force for the Good” and a “Force for the Bad” to sell tickets to a movie or political drama in an election year.

Seriously, where would Luke be without Darth Vader?

@georgetakei@universeodon.com Greta Thunberg is my kind of rock star when it comes to female power.

@georgetakei@universeodon.com I feel like people started hating her when she was still a teenager and spoke out against the 30-something year old man who was more popular and successful than her who dated her and treated her like crap.

And honestly people still seem way more pressed over who she’s dating or not dating and the fact that she’s not married than they do over her success. I mean she was America’s sweetheart before she started speaking out against men.