Feminist Taylor Swift Smashes The Patriarchy, Pokes Fun at Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift may not be known as a feminist herself, but a parody Twitter account bearing her name has set out to smash the patriarchy and take some subtle stabs at her songwriting. Since launching last Wednesday, Feminist Taylor Swift has already gained more than 75,000 followers with its clever parodies of Taylor Swift songs like "22," "Love Story" and "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together."
Feminist Taylor Swift is certainly prolific, too. In the six days since launching, Feminist Taylor Swift has already sent out 72 clever takedowns of Swift's lyrics. Typical topics covered by Feminist Taylor Swift include slut shaming, male privilege and Judith Butler's theories that gender identities are a social construct. It helps to have some understanding of feminist theory when reading Feminist Taylor Swift, but you're not going to miss out on all of the jokes if you don't.
Buzzfeed reports that the Feminist Taylor Swift account is the brainchild of Brown University senior Clara Beyer, who also runs the college blog That Girl Magazine. Beyer says that she’s simultaneously a feminist and a Taylor Swift fan, and felt it was high time she combined the two.
“I consider myself a feminist, and I blog about that kind of thing all the time, but I also LOVE Taylor Swift,” Beyer told Buzzfeed. “Being a feminist Taylor Swift fan isn’t always easy, but it led to @FeministTSwift, so I’m not really complaining.”
After less than a week online, Feminist Taylor Swift has already spawned a its own imitators. The most popular, Feminist Kanye, even got a shoutout from the original feminist musician parody account. And like Kanye West’s real Twitter account, just about everything coming from Feminist Kanye West is in all caps.
“@feministtswift YO IMMA LET YOU FINISH CUZ AS A MAN I NEED TO STEP BACK AND LET YOU BE HEARD,” Feminist Kanye tweeted, earning a retweet from Feminist Taylor Swift.
So far, the real Taylor Swift has yet to release a response to her feminist doppelgänger.
Check out the 10 best tweets from Feminist Taylor Swift below.
You were Romeo / I was a scarlet letter / Because I've had like, 6 boyfriends / Which isn't even that many / Slut shaming is a real problem
— FeministTaylorSwift (@feministtswift) June 17, 2013
It's a love story / Baby just say yes / because consent should always be freely and enthusiastically given
— FeministTaylorSwift (@feministtswift) June 13, 2013
She wears high heels / I wear sneakers / We're each expressing our gender identities in ways that make us feel comfortable / Date me
— FeministTaylorSwift (@feministtswift) June 14, 2013
You cry / But you don't tell anyone / Because women's sadness is often trivialized / And men's sadness is downright condemned
- FeministTaylorSwift (@feministtswift) June 17, 2013
It's been true all along, so why can't you see-ee-ee / Gender isn't necessarily a binary-y-y / Not a binary
— FeministTaylorSwift (@feministtswift) June 14, 2013
You're on the phone with your girlfriend, she's upset / She's going off about something that you said /'Cause you think rape jokes are funny
— FeministTaylorSwift (@feministtswift) June 16, 2013
"I fell in love with a careless man's careful daughter / She is the best thing that's ever been mine" / Hold on, why am I a man's property?
— FeministTaylorSwift (@feministtswift) June 14, 2013
I don't know about you / But I'm feeling 22 / cents underpaid on the dollar
— FeministTaylorSwift (@feministtswift) June 13, 2013
You say you've never met one girl who / reads as many Judith Butler essays as you / But I do
— FeministTaylorSwift (@feministtswift) June 12, 2013
And lead me up the staircase / Won't you whisper soft and slow / "I'd really love to hear more about your experiences with male privilege"
— FeministTaylorSwift (@feministtswift) June 16, 2013
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