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But my favorite single digit billionaire pop star is one of the "good billionaires"! (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Looks like your stats are a bit out of date, Swift is in first place again: https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2024/10/08/taylor-swift-becomes-worlds-richest-female-musician-heres-who-is-right-behind-her/

But you bring up a poignant point. Maybe some of it is because of the whole jet thing from some months ago, those discussions were really raging on here and so it’s probably echoing forward.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

People have been hating Swift for decades now. They were hating her for writing too many relationship-related songs even before the American left revived.

She's an easy target because her target demographic is teenage girls, and anything / anyone beloved by teenage girls MUST necessarily be gay and worthless.

See also: Justin Bieber, the Backstreet Boys, and the Jonas Brothers.

I highly suspect people joined the left and transferred their hatred from, "Taylor Swift the musician for stupid, hysterical girls, who I hate" to, "Taylor Swift, the billionaire," without once examining the lens through which they first started hating her. And now she gets more "anti-billionaire" hate than Jeff Bezos?

It bothers me.

Misogyny is a tool of capitalism, and to quote Lorde: the tools of the master will never dismantle the master's house. No one is destroying capitalism by weirdly fixating on Taylor Swift and her fans "because she's a billionaire" while criticizing her more than basically all other billionaires.

I look forward to the day I see a leftist meme reminding me "you can't love Bruce Springsteen (1.1b) or Jay-Z (2.5b) and still be a leftist."

Until then, I'm not taking lectures on leftism from people who haven't deconstructed their own feelings of hatred and superiority towards teenage girls.

Edit: I hope I didn't come across as angry at you in particular. You don't seem to be joining in the hypocritical, unnuanced hate.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I made a post about this a while ago! (edit: okay it’s not about this per se but relevant, inspired by Contrapoints’ video about JK Rowling.)

https://lemmy.cafe/post/3014506

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm glad you got a good upvote:downvote ratio for that post. It's encouraging to know that people are at least willing to listen to a reasonable take on Taylor Swift.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

thanks! i actually forgot how successful it was! to be fair, that was back when blahaj zone didn’t federate downvotes so the ratio must be taken with a grain of salt :)