The Taylor Swift Dating Criticism I’m Taking Personally (Back Off You Guys!)

We all know Taylor Swift’s love life has become the frequent butt of jokes after her latest breakup with Harry Styles.

It was pretty funny when Tina Fey warned her to stay away from Michael J. Fox’s son at the Golden Globes. It was less funny when Fox responded to the remarks by instructing Tay Tay to “back off” since I’m pretty sure she never tried anything in the first place. Funny thing about jokes: they aren’t always based on facts!

Taylor Swift has finally decided to give it back to those who think they have a chance critiquing her dating choices and life. Read more below.
American pop sensation Taylor Swift, recently released her version of her 2014 album ‘1989.’ In the liner notes of the album, the singer reflected on the “intensity and relentlessness” of scrutiny in her earlier career.

The pop star wrote that she “decided to completely reinvent” herself at 24 years old before describing how she felt about the public and media comments on her relationships. “The voices that had begun to shame me in new ways for dating like a normal young woman? I wanted to silence them,” wrote Taylor.

“You see — in the years preceding this, I had become the target of slut shaming — the intensity and relentlessness of which would be criticized and called out if it happened today. The jokes about my amount of boyfriends. The trivialization of my songwriting as if it were a predatory act of a boy crazy psychopath. The media co-signing of this narrative. I had to make it stop because it was starting to really hurt.”

In this week’s liner notes, she wrote that she swore off doing “anything that could be weaponized against me by a culture that claimed to believe in liberating women but consistently treated me with the harsh moral codes of the Victorian Era,” Then, she addressed her famous “squad” of female friends, which made the fans to speculate that the icon could be queer, which she has never stated she is.

“If I only hung out with my female friends, people couldn’t sensationalize or sexualize that — right?” wrote the singer-songwriter. “I would learn later on that people could and people would.” She added that “everyone has something to say” about her behaviour and acknowledged that “they always will.” Then, the iconic music legend referenced to most famous tunes writing, “I learned lessons, paid prices, and tried to … don’t say it … don’t say it … I’m sorry, I have to say it … shake it off,”