WHAT AN ACTUAL WOMAN THINKS OF TAYLOR SWIFT'S ＂THE MAN＂
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Summary
Taylor Swift's new music video "The Man" is out and it's getting a lot of buzz. In this episode, I talk about why I don't think Taylor Swift should be allowed to call herself a "victim" and why she needs to stand on her own two feet.
Transcript
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Hello, beautiful ladies and gents, and welcome to today's video where we're going to be talking about Taylor Swift's new video, The Man.
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So when I was younger, I was a huge fan of Taylor Swift. I loved her music, and I loved her fashion sense.
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I used to try and go out and buy the same clothes she was wearing, copy her outfits, and I really liked her songs.
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I thought her songs were really fun and relatable, and even when she moved into pop, I didn't really blame her for that.
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Okay, she wants to change her sound, she wants to kind of change her demographic.
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That doesn't really bother me. It wasn't my favorite. I started not liking her music as much, but it didn't make me not like her.
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And then Taylor Swift decided that she was going to become an SJW.
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Now, for those of you who don't know what an SJW is, that's a social justice warrior.
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I did not like her as much after this happened.
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It really felt like she polarized her followers into liberals and conservatives, and if you were not a liberal, she didn't want you listening to her.
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Well, all I can say is that I didn't really want to listen to her anymore, so I stopped.
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I actually wrote a piece for Evie Magazine about that, and I'll leave that in my description box below.
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And that just made me realize once again that she has really decided that she is a victim.
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Now, if you know me and if you know my blog, I am not a fan of victimhood.
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I think it's really important to stand on your own two feet, and I don't think that calling yourself a victim really helps anyone.
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But for someone like Taylor Swift, who has hundreds of millions of followers and hundreds of millions of dollars,
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it's an upsetting thing that she's decided to call herself a victim.
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It's also kind of scary, given the fact that she has so many followers who are willing to jump to her defense.
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If she says she's a victim, guess how many people are going to defend her and say,
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Now, I don't mind that the Swifties wanted to come after me after I put up this tweet,
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Now, I wasn't even coming after Taylor Swift, really.
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I was saying, I'm tired of women saying that we don't have rights in America.
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Now, clearly, Taylor Swift's video was about women in America, and so was my tweet.
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I wasn't trying to say that women around the world are given the same rights as men.
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I was specifically talking about America, and a lot of the time,
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feminists are arguing about equal rights and opportunities in America where we already have them.
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But I just found it fascinating that all of Taylor Swift's fans, who are supposedly the ones who think that all women are heroes,
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decided that when I tweeted something out against Taylor, they had the right to call me ugly, a rat,
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Some of them did, although most of them did not.
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And in my opinion, that's not really something to brag about.
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If you are a famous person who has a lot of fans who want to follow your lead,
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they're not really fighting for what you're fighting for.
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But I thought I would give you guys an actual woman's response to Taylor Swift's The Man video.
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The video starts off with her in an office, walking around, treating people badly,
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and the lyrics are talking about how if she was a man, she could sleep around and no one would care
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and people would actually give her praise for it.
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Well, the first thing that made me think is, what kind of people are you hanging about with?
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In the communities that I grew up in and in the communities that I still choose to be a part of,
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if men are sleeping around, that's not a good thing.
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That's not something that we espouse at all, actually.
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Anybody who is sleeping around before they're married or in a way that's disrespectful to their partners
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and isn't in relationships is not praised at all.
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So why are you hanging around the people who are saying that stuff?
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And even in the case where, okay, let's say broadly society says that men should be able to sleep around
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and women shouldn't, why are we trying to make it so that women can instead of saying that men shouldn't either?
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If we're living in a society where everyone can sleep with everyone and it doesn't matter,
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Wouldn't you want it to be the scenario where men should not be sleeping around
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and women should not be sleeping around in a way that's callous and awful?
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Actually, women are not criticized, in my experience, for sleeping around.
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Your friends give you a pat on the back and say, great job.
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When JLo got up on stage at the Super Bowl and danced around as she did,
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a lot of people criticized her, but a lot of people defended her.
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So, clearly, there's a divide in this country and it's not people just saying,
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oh, you slept around and you're a woman, that's bad.
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There are people who are also saying, you slept around and you're a woman, that's empowerment.
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I think that everyone should probably just not sleep around in a way that's gross.
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But the fact of the matter is that I don't think that there's this crazy divide between men and women.
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It really just depends on who you're spending time with.
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I had to stop it there for you guys because when everyone believes ya, what's that like came up.
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As a country, I think we've talked about this quite a bit,
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but I don't think that hashtag believe all women is a good idea.
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We've seen time and time again that women can lie.
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Of course, there are situations where you should believe her.
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But you can't just make a blanket statement that you should believe all women or believe all men in any scenario.
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And we live in a country where it's innocent until proven guilty.
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You can't just assume that a man has done something and therefore ruin his life forever.
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So Taylor Swift just saying, oh, we should believe all women and I have a hundred million followers who will believe me.
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I mean, that's a little bit dangerous, don't you think?
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Wondering if I'd get there quick or if I was a man
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The lyrics don't really go with what's happening on screen, so let's take them apart separately.
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The lyrics say that she would have gotten there faster if she was a man.
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She's a beautiful young woman who was famous by 15.
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I don't think she would have gotten there faster if she was a man.
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She got there faster because she was pretty and cute and relatable.
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I'm not saying that's a terrible thing, but I am saying she can use her sexuality to get where she wants to go.
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So if she was a man, I don't think she would have that same appeal.
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Now looking at what's actually happening on the screen
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And the fact of the matter is I've never been in a scenario where other men wouldn't call that guy out.
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Also, why are the people around him letting him act that way?
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If you're gonna act like a bad person, people are gonna call you out for the most part.
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And then she pees on a wall and you see all the names of her albums that she doesn't currently own.
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Now, I don't have enough legal background to know exactly if she should own her old records or not.
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I don't really know what the legal ramifications of that are.
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And theoretically, if you're a woman doing that, that's also pretty gross.
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They wouldn't shake their heads and question how much of this I deserve
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Could I be separated from my good ideas and power moves?
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This next section kind of blows my mind because I'm so confused at what her point is.
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She has about 10 women lying on a boat in bikinis
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who have all decided that they want to hang out with this really kind of gross guy.
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And I don't think it's like a societal patriarchal thing.
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You're saying that the guy is the problem here.
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These women shouldn't be following the lead of a bad guy.
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And they're all on his boat because they want to party.
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And I think it's more of a critique of the woman than it is of the men.
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Then we see her as a man getting out of bed with a woman and he's already dressed
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and he runs down a hallway where people are giving him high fives.
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When I watched this video all I could think is that the people that I know
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And the women who are hanging around with him are the problem.
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The guy is the problem of course as well but he wouldn't have anybody to communicate with
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Are you criticizing men or are you criticizing the women who are following him around?
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I don't think that's the point of her video and I don't really want to argue that either
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but that seems to be what she's putting out there.
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If he's being a bad dad and women are just attracted to him because they're stupid,
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I don't understand why she's criticizing women so harshly in this video.
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She seems to be criticizing women much more harshly than she's criticizing men.
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All of the women in this video look like they're stupid.
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Then she cuts to all of these guys kind of being disgusting in a bar and that they're
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all allowed to be angry but because she's a woman she's not.
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Then she has a tantrum and I think it's supposed to be a throwback to Serena Williams when she had
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The fact of the matter is I'm watching this video and I would criticize any man who acted like that.
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We should criticize anyone who acts like a child on the tennis court.
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The premise here is broken that men and women should be treated equally is true and they are
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but the fact is how do you want them to be treated equally?
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Do you want them to be treated and held to a higher standard?
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Or do you want everyone to be treated equally and everyone can be terrible?
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Wondering if I'd get that quick or if I was a man
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Then it cuts to 58 years later as if she's the old man
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She's critiquing this woman for marrying an old man for his money
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Because she waves her big diamond at the camera as if
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Honestly, I think I've seen that happen at a bunch of weddings
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Where somebody's rubbed cake in the other person's face
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And now we're just critiquing the old man for being gross
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Was that last tick more of what you had in mind?
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And women are always told they have to be sexier
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Women are getting into schools at a higher rate than men
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Women are getting hired at a higher rate than men
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Or is she really just trying to cater to the SJW crowd?
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Of course, she has to finish off by saying she did everything herself
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I don't understand why we have to polarize men and women so harshly
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You should hire people who know what they're doing
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You've changed and you've alienated a lot of the people who used to follow you
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And I know that you want to say that you're brave for coming out as a political person
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I don't think your music is as good when you make it about politics
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