from: Midnights (2022) by singer-songwriter-internationalsuperstar Taylor Swift
to: postcards ideas by me, hi! i’m the problem
for: you all, my dears older souls
OK but why is “Sweet Nothing” setting off alarm bells in my head as potentially the most terrifying track so far??? It immediately made me think of the line about “drinking till walls speak back” in the prologue...
Oh. This is female rage. This is a song about female rage.
The most rage-provoking element of being a female is the gaslighting that happens when, for centuries, we've been expected to absorb male behavior, silent absorption of whatever any guy decides to do.
Oftentimes when we, in our enlightened and emboldened state, now, respond to bad male behavior, or somebody doing something that was out of line, and we respond, that response is treated like the offence itself.
There has been situations, recently, with somebody who has been very guilty of this in my life, who has tried to make me feel like I am the offender, by having any kind of defense to his defenses.
I have no right to respond or I'm crazy. I have no right to respond or I'm angry. I have no right to respond or I'm out of line.
How do I say why this feels so bad?
Without offending the entire world.
Women like hunting witches too. Doing your dirtiest work for you. No one likes a mad woman.