Taylor Swift and Matty Healy’s supposed romance has despatched sure Swifties spiraling. Some are vocal about their discontent and disappointment within the famous person, even calling Swift out with the hashtag #SpeakUpNow on Twitter. Others, nonetheless, have been feverishly defending her.
The backlash over her alleged new boyfriend comes at a vital second within the pop icon’s Period’s tour, for which she’s offered out stadiums nationwide. Swift is on the high of the world artistically; she holds extra prominence and energy now than ever earlier than in her profession. Her determination up to now somebody like Matty Healy speaks volumes about who she is and the place her values actually lie.
Taylor Swift ought to be held accountable for courting Matty Healy.
Swift has each proper up to now who she desires however her followers even have the best to name her on who she aligns herself with.
A Rolling Stone article from Could 30, 2023, made the declare that Swift has nothing to apologize for by courting Healy — if she have been a person, followers wouldn’t be having this dialog. There’s validity in that assertion. Sure, Swift is topic to a misogynist narrative, one which reductions her creative achievements in favor of dragging her for courting males after which writing about her expertise.
However to focus solely on whether or not she’d get criticized if she have been a person is to overlook the purpose of the dialog.
“For the final 17 years, we’ve held this girl answerable for the actions of males she chooses to spend time with, and it’s time to cease,” Rolling Stone reporter Angie Martoccio wrote.
Whereas it’s completely true that Swift isn’t answerable for the problematic, poisonous worldview Healy brazenly expresses, it’s additionally true that she’s a grown girl with huge quantities of privilege and energy. Swift made the choice up to now a musician with a documented historical past of weaponizing his personal privilege, by talking inflammatory cultural commentary on one facet of his mouth, then declaring how little what he says issues on the opposite. When requested by The New Yorker this week if he baits his followers, Healy mentioned he did, typically, then mentioned, “Nevertheless it doesn’t really matter.”
White silence is how white supremacy is constantly upheld. Healy made the energetic option to not communicate up when podcast hosts Adam Friedman and Nick Mullen made racist feedback about Ice Spice. He determined to take a seat there and snigger alongside. He may have leveraged his privilege, but didn’t—and his silence confirmed the place his allegiances are. Healy is all about talking his thoughts, then sloughing off accountability for inflicting hurt.
Swift’s silent option to date Matty Healy exhibits she isn’t taking accountability for her personal company or selections.
“Your voice holds great energy and proper now, your silence is palpable,” followers wrote in an open letter to Swift on Twitter.
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“True change requires greater than a easy apology: it necessitates a dedication to… actively dismantling methods of oppression that perpetuate racism and discrimination.”
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To be an inclusive confederate requires individuals to have an effect on change in how they stay their every day lives, not simply stand on stage and provides lip service to varied individuals on the margins. If love is an motion phrase, and actions communicate loudest, Swift is exhibiting the world her truest self—a lady extra curious about sustaining her standing than lifting others as she climbs.
Alexandra Blogier is a author on YourTango’s information and leisure crew. She covers superstar gossip, popular culture evaluation and all issues to do with the leisure business.
