I look forward to a fruitful and positive discussion in the comments...

I feel so gladly accepting women to dialogue feuds one accomplishes at another.

Because it’s making us all forget about the Gawker meltdowns?

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. She apologies (which was the classy, necessary thing to do), makes it clear that she owns the blame, and your post is still all snarky that she didn’t do it sooner, or do it more? Do she need to sacrifice a goat before the gods of Internet Rage will be sedated?

People have been telling Swift since…

to every person saying ‘it’s a good apology but she shouldn’t have done something in the first place’

Wow, she took an entire day to realize her mistake and compose a tweet that precisely identified her mistake, and apologized expressly to the person she offended in the same medium both people were initially communicating in. What a horrible bitch!

they’ve already done this.

I’d agree if this had been a private disagreement, but if the beef starts in public I actually think it’s super cowardly to apologize in private and not own up in public. Like a paper posting corrections to a front page headline in 8 point font under the obituaries.

She probably did but this has become such a big internet deal that speaking publicly on it will help it all go away.

I am pleasantly surprised by the active verbs in this apology.

That's a decent, to the point apology.

It’s an old adage, but one that bears repeating for Rick:

Schadenfreude

i think the broader question here is why give rick santorum any airtime at all

Isn’t that what they teach you love is? One loves the other more and therefor holds the power to virtually murder the other.

This Cady person’s vaguebooking is gross.

If her tweets are anything like her lyrics, then it’s no wonder I’ve never heard of Cady Groves.

How To Lose Your Career in 10 Days: A Collection of Tweets by Cady Groves

I mean, she didn’t lie. Taylor doesn’t have to like Katy Perry but using her platform to write a song against her and using her fake industry friends to show Katy that she’s more liked in the industry than her is not feminism. Accusing women of color for “pitting women against each other” when we point out the…