because the author thinks fifteen year old girls should be thinking about uhh…
And so that’s what I hope for my hypothetical unborn children, whether it’s from Gaga or another powerhouse female who owns it on stage: pop music that shuns tired Dawson Leary cliché in favor of your drama, disease, love, revenge, and (when you’re ready) your dangerous ambisexual kiss in the motherfucking sand.
If this person has a daughter some day we’ll see if she really wants to push the ideas of drama, disease, revenge and ambisexual sand kisses or whatever the fuck on her. I think her tune will change.
I’m not saying I love Taylor Swift’s music because I honestly have never heard one of her songs. I’m just saying that fifteen year old girls are still girls. They’re not young adults, they’re not women, they’re not even seventeen. They’re still kids. Let them be kids without pushing sexuality at them at every turn.
I love when people who don’t have kids are always going on about how they are going to be the “cool” parent and make sure their kids are cool and punk and anti-establishment and all fuck you society because the second you become a parent that shit goes out the window.
Nobody’s telling you your daughter has to think about sex at 15. But. If other girls at your daughters school do, she should not start slut-shaming just because Taylor Swift does it. I think you missed the large point of the article - not that Taylor Swift teaches girls to think about something other than sex - it’s that Taylor Swift teaches the Madonna/Whore complex straight out of a right-wing, fundamentalist, anti-sex, anti-womyn, abstinence-only playbook.
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