This Should Be The Sacred Rule Lol

https://www.reddit.com/r/GaylorSwift/s/NqaA7M6PPm 🫣 it's just insane how Taylor's PRomance machine has been working so well for years and all the people really believe she was in love with all those men and wrote all those love songs about them.

Link

It’s a good post isn’t it?

There’s no doubt about Travlor, it’s the most obvious PR ship ever. Even if I believed it was real, I couldn’t doubt they’ve been milking the hell out of it since day one.

I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.

Flannery O’Connor (via mariannapaige)

Maybe in the 2044 remake we are gonna finally have a wlw relationship like Regina-Janis or Regina-Cady or whichever,I’m not picky 🤩🥰

I honestly do think Mean Girls DOES need to be made every twenty years.

It's an honest (if very exaggerated) look at how brutal high school social politics can be and with just two generations of it, you can see how ideas of what feminism is and how best to advocate for it have changed.

Not to mention, it's relevant how bullying keeps evolving with technology. Social media is obviously a huge part of Mean Girls (2024), whereas it was, of course, non-existent in Mean Girls (2004). I'm terrified of what that could look like in 2044 lmao geez

"Rights are being stripped from basically everyone who isn't a straight white cisgender male," she tells Vogue, when asked about why she chose to, all of a sudden, stand up for LGBTQ+ rights. "I didn't realize until recently that I could advocate for a community that I'm not a part of."

Source: https://www.out.com/news/2019/8/08/taylor-swift-says-shes-straight-despite-all-bisexual-rumors#toggle-gdpr

I was waiting for this to come through my inbox lol. (There was more then one ask about this but I'm only responding to the first.)

There's lots to unpack here but the first and foremost thing is: She doesn't actually say here, "I'm straight." It was a perfect opportunity. It was the ideal conversation. She punted. Why?

Why did she instead give this vague, circuitous, carefully couched answer?

She calls out communities encompassing sexuality, race, and gender, followed by saying, "a community that I'm not a part of." There are lots of communities that she could have been referring to, but she crafted the sentence in such a way that makes it unclear which one. She could have been talking about the trans community. She could have been talking about the poc community. She could have been talking about the ace community. She could have been talking about the gay male community. There are lots of possibilities. In this carefully worded sentence, she deliberately avoided naming the specific community she's talking about.

Another thing to consider is that many, many closeted people don't consider themselves part of the queer community. They don't feel like they belong because they're not out and proud. And even once people come out, it often still takes time before they feel like they're part of the queer community. That was certainly my personal experience. Cara Delevingne said something similar in her Hulu show when discussing her own coming out.

Let's move on. The link anon provided isn't the source. It's an article quoting the source. The actual source is the 2019 Vogue cover article. And the full article is important because there are lots of interesting things that give context to this quote.

First, there's a great deal of conversation about gay stuff and lgbtq+ rights. And the writer makes a point of saying about this subject matter that Taylor seems to enjoy that part of the conversation "as much as she’d enjoy a root canal." Wouldn't a straight ally be eager to discuss this? They would. And a closeted queer person would be uncomfortable and panicking at the thought of having to talk so blatantly about this subject. The writer also makes a point of saying that once the conversation changes to music, Taylor lights up and her demeanor and speech patterns relax dramatically.

The other important context that the Vogue article discusses is Taylor's very long history of supporting lgbtq+ rights. Everything from the Mean mv of a gay boy being bullied to the "boys and boys and girls and girls" line in WTNY to donations to lgbtq+ organizations to giving out queer awards to queer people to dedicating Dress to Loie Fuller, an openly gay artist. There are plenty of other examples of Taylor advocating for the queer community that aren't mentioned. All the way back in 2008 she participated in the LOGO queer anti-bullying PSA. In 2009 she was in Seventeen magazine taking a stand against the slaying of a teenager for being gay.

Why is this important? Because it proves that Taylor is lying in the quote in question. "I didn't realize until recently that I could advocate…" girl yes you did. You've been advocating for years and years at this point. She's lying. She's lying. She's covering herself up. She's hiding in the closet and hoping desperately that no one notices.

And this isn't the first time she's done this either. During the 1989 press tour she gave an interview where she was asked about the "And you can want who you want / Boys and boys and girls and girls" line. As the interviewer is starting to speak about this, a look of pure panic immediately takes over Taylor's face:

And then she starts stumbling around trying to give a coherent answer. At one point she stutters out, "And also I wrote this song, um, I wrote this song, kind of, kind of following, the, uh, when gay marriage became legal in New York." This interview was in October 2014. Gay marriage had been legal in New York since June 2011. Sooo three years later is "kind of following." Right. Sure, Taylor. Nice closeting. You really nailed it.

Okay let's review. She doesn't actually say she's straight even though this was a perfect opportunity to do so. She doesn't name the actual community she's talking about, giving herself cover if she ever comes out. She's closeted and probably doesn't think she's part of the queer community anyways. She full-on lies about not knowing she can advocate for others. And the writer states Taylor seems deeply uncomfortable talking about lgbtq+ things even though the context of the article was that blondie wanted to make it clear how much of an ally she is.

None of this remotely adds up to hetero. And none of this comes even close to Taylor saying that she's straight.

Love to see 🥰 ( me thinking the second girl was from Fear Street ahha the dark curly hair/blondie confused me for a sec)

mean girls (for the gay girls!)

How do we know that MySpace post was to a girl?

hi anon! good question!

so you're right, this screenshot doesn't say who were message is to. maybe there's some other context out there that we can find, but i feel pretty confident that this was probably sent to a girl because of the other baby tay myspace posts our historians have preserved

IVE Yujin performing Born This Way on live South Korean broadcast 31122023

I love you An Yujin the growl is my new Roman Empire

Don’t know much about Tumblr but from what I gathered this seems like a photo that would fit better here than insta.

Someone likes that and that’s definitely not me

Mon + grabbing Sam’s neck

GAP THE SERIES Episode 8 | Episode 9

Love them 🥰

23.5, Ep 8