Taylor Swift performs during the second day of the 2012 iHeartRadio Music Festival at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada September 22, 2012.
Are you a fan of Taylor Swift, but find her lyrics a little too complacent? Do you wish she was a little more forward with her feminism? Then do we have a Twitter account for you: @FeministTSwift, the online doppelganger of an imagined feminist Taylor Swift who has no qualms standing up for herself or her ideals in her refreshingly feminist lyrics.
Created by Clara Beyer, a rising senior at Brown University where she runs That Girl Magazine, a college blog devoted to “carefully walking the line between f—ing the patriarchy and recommending an awesome new lipstain,” the Twitter account went viral this week, gaining over 47,000 followers in its first few days of existence. Beyer considers herself both a feminist and a Taylor Swift fan, which she admitted to BuzzFeed “isn’t always easy.” Beyer launched the account last Tuesday after she tweeted the idea for it and a friend called her to make sure she followed through. Beyer did, and her 71 thought-provoking, clever and funny tweets have attracted over 75,000 followers so far. Here are some of our favorites:
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You were Romeo, you were throwin’ pebbles / And my daddy said “Stay away from Juliet” / But I’m a grown woman who can make her own decisions
— FeministTaylorSwift (@feministtswift) June 16, 2013
I’m not a princess / This ain’t a fairytale / I’m writing my own story / With a strong female hero
— FeministTaylorSwift (@feministtswift) June 14, 2013
If you just said you’re sorry / I know that we could work it out somehow / But if this was a movie it would probably fail the Bechdel test
— FeministTaylorSwift (@feministtswift) June 15, 2013
Feminist Taylor Swift now joins the ranks of Feminist Ryan Gosling and Feminist Hulk as the equality-loving mashups we never knew we needed, but are very glad exist.
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