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Taylor Swift: Precocious Talent and Self-determination

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Taylor Swift On Feminism

“As a teenager, I didn’t understand that saying you’re a feminist is just saying that you hope women and men will have equal rights and equal opportunities.

“What it seemed to me, the way it was phrased in culture, society, was that you hate men. And now, I think a lot of girls have had a feminist awakening because they understand what the word means.

“For so long it’s been made to seem like something where you’d picket against the opposite Sєx, whereas it’s not about that at all.

“Becoming friends with Lena [Dunham, creator of HBO series Girls] – without her preaching to me, but just seeing why she believes what she believes, why she says what she says, why she stands for what she stands for – has made me realise that I’ve been taking a feminist stance without actually saying so.”

On gender bias and misogyny

“I really resent the idea that if a woman writes about her feelings, she has too many feelings.

“And I really resent the ‘Be careful, buddy, she’s going to write a song about you’ angle, because it trivialises what I do. It makes it seem like creating art is something you do as a cheap weapon rather than an artistic process.

“They can say whatever they want about my personal life because I know what my personal life is, and it involves a lot of TV and cats and girlfriends. But I don’t like it when they start to make cheap sH๏τs at my songwriting. Because there’s no joke to be made there.”

 

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