As someone who writes her own music, isn’t conventionally attractive, and is far less sexualized than her peers, Taylor is probably the female pop star who benefits the least from body standards.

“ignorant and insensitive”? really?

And nowhere did I say you were, dickhole

White people love when non-white people call out other non-white people for not being non-white enough.

So is she dressed as a nurse who is also a Nazi, or did Nazi nurse costumes really look like that? I don’t remember covering this in 11th grade.

OK, fair enough. But you could also argue that Rihanna, for example, is also all “look at me I’m so edgy and smoke weed and don’t give a fuck.” She’s affecting a persona just as much as Taylor, but on Jezebel, Taylor “tries too hard” while Rihanna is a “boss bitch” for it. But if you find Rihanna’s persona tolerable,…

She makes pop music that is, at the very least, equally good as that of Beyonce, Rihanna, and Nicki Minaj, who Jezebel worships. You could make the argument that they all suck.

Questioning the application of a rhetorical trope doesn’t mean that I don’t “understand” that rhetorical trope. But thanks for your dickish faux-concern about me, whom you know nothing about.

Thank you for you very thoughtful and informative response. I would only add that it’s possible that the tweets were simultaneously about a larger cultural issue and shade at Taylor. In that hypothetical case, I’m not sure it’s entirely fair to expect a human being to say “Someone just threw shots at me, but I’ll hold…

Their instantly fawning attitude toward non-white celebrities is also low-key condescending and belittling.

How was it a “classic derail”? Even Jezebel speculated that the tweets were about Taylor in its initial post. Is Taylor not allowed to respond to subtweets about her?

Rihanna is the worst.

ok

No, that was really shitty of me. I got caught up in trying to be clever and snarky and just ended up being a mean jerk. Again, I’m sorry. I hope you have a good night!

fair enough!

I apologize for being rude to you. I was wrong to do that and I’m sorry for it.

I’ve listened to Nicki since she was freestyling over Biggie beats in those pre-Young Money mixtapes. She is not, and has never, ever, ever been “easily one of the best rappers in the game.”

She’s pretty much considered a prodigious pop songwriter. And for a pop singer, she’s not remarkably attractive, and is far less sexualized than her peers.

but if she didn’t look the way she does, she would have no career

#notallNikkisongs