I actually felt female rage when I read she filed a trademark for Female Rage:The Musical. Everything about TTPD, from the announcement at the Grammy’s to the marketing to the songs and now its addition to the Eras Tour has felt so hollow. As some of you have seen, I have been dragging a song from the album as much as I can. Today, I will be dragging the title track itself. First, the lyrics are terrible “tattooed golden retriever” a Charlie Puth shoutout. Please be real, those are not earth shattering lyrics. This album is lazy and it felt created to cement her status as above critique and commentary. While of course scraping every dollar out of her fans bank accounts like a musical Metamucil.
Before TTPD, I would have given anything to see this tour and now I can’t even be bothered to watch clips on social media.
Relevant-Peach3997 on
> Those oppressed and marginalised are only allowed to express anger in fiction, and still it is often white, straight women who are praised for expressing said anger. Through this understanding, ‘female rage’, as a genre, starts to lose its edge and importance within media.
> At the end of the day, Swift is a billionaire continuously trying to sell her fans corporate-friendly liberal feminism with the sole purpose of strengthening her bank account.
This is a fair assessment. Even though she has faced misogyny, a white billionaire should not be the face of female rage nor capitalizing off of it.
fluorescentsky on
> Those who watch programs like Big Little Lies can understand why Celeste (Nicole Kidman) and the other women of the show >!would kill wife-beater and rapist Perry (Alexander Skarsgård)!<, but can’t understand why those suffering under colonialism and displacement would want to fight back against their oppressors. Not only can they not understand it, it doesn’t have any space within their so-called ‘feminist’ practice. Those oppressed and marginalised are only allowed to express anger in fiction, and still it is often white, straight women who are praised for expressing said anger. Through this understanding, ‘female rage’, as a genre, starts to lose its edge and importance within media.
This entire paragraph. It’s exactly this. It’s the emptiness of this type of “feminism” (patriarchy rebranded/wearing a hat), and how narrow and myopic it is.
theorist_rainy on
I have no problem with female rage, but I do have a problem with someone profiting off of it.
curiousbeetle66 on
This era is making me laugh, and laugh and laugh. First it was the lazy and incoherent concept, but that tracks for her. Then it was the nonsense lyrics under the guise of “poetry”, and then there are the live performances and the fans’ comments, like “omg she’s such a theather kid” no girl. She’s not. Funny that she trademarked the “musical” bit bc people have to sing live in musicals… just sayin’
etherealeggroll on
someone needs to tell taylor that her narcissistic victimhood isn’t “female rage”
Comfortable-Load-904 on
Does she actually understand what female rage is? Or is it a shallow interpretation like her poetry was? Your fan’s objections to you dating a racist and misogynistic creep does not induce female rage nor does Scooter legally buying your masters. what makes me rage is watching Palestinian mothers and children being killed everyday, it’s watching little kids in the Congo forced into tunnels to mine cobalt for our phones, it’s watching underage girls being forced to bear the children of their rapists, it’s seeing the girls in Iran being killed for refusing to wear the scarf and finally the girls in Afghanistan that are banned from studying at all. Your white feminism is very self serving and it’s a tool of the patriarchy as you are their capitalist queen. I’m over her performative nonsense and her fans just parroting what she says without understanding what any of it actually means.
7 Comments
I actually felt female rage when I read she filed a trademark for Female Rage:The Musical. Everything about TTPD, from the announcement at the Grammy’s to the marketing to the songs and now its addition to the Eras Tour has felt so hollow. As some of you have seen, I have been dragging a song from the album as much as I can. Today, I will be dragging the title track itself. First, the lyrics are terrible “tattooed golden retriever” a Charlie Puth shoutout. Please be real, those are not earth shattering lyrics. This album is lazy and it felt created to cement her status as above critique and commentary. While of course scraping every dollar out of her fans bank accounts like a musical Metamucil.
Before TTPD, I would have given anything to see this tour and now I can’t even be bothered to watch clips on social media.
> Those oppressed and marginalised are only allowed to express anger in fiction, and still it is often white, straight women who are praised for expressing said anger. Through this understanding, ‘female rage’, as a genre, starts to lose its edge and importance within media.
> At the end of the day, Swift is a billionaire continuously trying to sell her fans corporate-friendly liberal feminism with the sole purpose of strengthening her bank account.
This is a fair assessment. Even though she has faced misogyny, a white billionaire should not be the face of female rage nor capitalizing off of it.
> Those who watch programs like Big Little Lies can understand why Celeste (Nicole Kidman) and the other women of the show >!would kill wife-beater and rapist Perry (Alexander Skarsgård)!<, but can’t understand why those suffering under colonialism and displacement would want to fight back against their oppressors. Not only can they not understand it, it doesn’t have any space within their so-called ‘feminist’ practice. Those oppressed and marginalised are only allowed to express anger in fiction, and still it is often white, straight women who are praised for expressing said anger. Through this understanding, ‘female rage’, as a genre, starts to lose its edge and importance within media.
This entire paragraph. It’s exactly this. It’s the emptiness of this type of “feminism” (patriarchy rebranded/wearing a hat), and how narrow and myopic it is.
I have no problem with female rage, but I do have a problem with someone profiting off of it.
This era is making me laugh, and laugh and laugh. First it was the lazy and incoherent concept, but that tracks for her. Then it was the nonsense lyrics under the guise of “poetry”, and then there are the live performances and the fans’ comments, like “omg she’s such a theather kid” no girl. She’s not. Funny that she trademarked the “musical” bit bc people have to sing live in musicals… just sayin’
someone needs to tell taylor that her narcissistic victimhood isn’t “female rage”
Does she actually understand what female rage is? Or is it a shallow interpretation like her poetry was? Your fan’s objections to you dating a racist and misogynistic creep does not induce female rage nor does Scooter legally buying your masters. what makes me rage is watching Palestinian mothers and children being killed everyday, it’s watching little kids in the Congo forced into tunnels to mine cobalt for our phones, it’s watching underage girls being forced to bear the children of their rapists, it’s seeing the girls in Iran being killed for refusing to wear the scarf and finally the girls in Afghanistan that are banned from studying at all. Your white feminism is very self serving and it’s a tool of the patriarchy as you are their capitalist queen. I’m over her performative nonsense and her fans just parroting what she says without understanding what any of it actually means.