Just seen a post about not tagging your gaylor publications with the Taylor Swift tag so you dont get trouble, and I completely respect that. Is a great way to avoid problems with hetlors and people that only what to spread hate.
However, I am a Taylor Swift fan. My post is about Taylor Swift. I made post about Taylor, her art and her public performances. I have the right to use the Taylor Swift tag and I will (but it is perfectly okay not to use it to avoid hetlors and stuff).
Just because the analisys I have doesnt aling with the mayority of the fandom doesnt mean is less valid or punisheable. Seing and pointing out the flagging is not harmful, the queer flagging is there for a reason (and most definitely, on propouse).
My gaylor post are about Taylor Swift like are the ones about Travlor and Haylor (and they all have the same speculative nature), so I have the right to use the Taylor Swift tag as much as I want without getting any hate
I just read a re-post of one of my post from a non-gaylor, and I would like to say it was a really good, respectful answer that explained their point of view perfectly and, by any means, this post is an attemp to start beef or anything.
Being said that, one of the points that really standed out to me was how some fans would "force a queer identity on her" (not quoting them, just summarizing) and how twisting lyrics to hold a narrative or using certain interpretation of a song, was not healthy, in reference to the connection I made to the album midnights and Taylors queerness.
Now, I would like to ask, isnt twisting a lyric to fit a narrative how people started saying that Taylor was the "argumentative antithetical dream girl" she refers to in hits different, when is crearly (and is a question of grammar and basic language comprension) refering to the muse of the song?
Bet I could still melt your world, argumentative antithetical dream girl. Are you kidding me?? How could you posible say this makes sense if she was refering to herself???
Then, the paternity test constantly done by swifties to look for the muse of a song is nothing more than a certain interpretation of the lyric to fit the narrative. So that is not a thing exclusive to gaylors, almost every swiftie does it.
Now, that is what I like to call a double standard. I am not shaming the original autor of the post that have inspired this text, but pointing out a more societal problem. Very often, speculation and shipping and reading into things, if done in a hetero way is okay but do not dare to do it in a way that relates to queerness.
About the "forcing a queer identity on her", there is a thing, done through history called flagging. Safo was doing it in ancient Grecee, so did Oscar Wilde and more recently Elton John or James Dean. There are signals of the queer community to signal discretely to other lgbtq+ that they are one of them.
Taylor is not subtle about her flagging. She went out in a bi pride colored jacket to sing "and you can want who you want, boys and boys and girls and girls". She did sing about wearing someone like a necklace. She did spray paint her paint the bi colors to her gay pride music video. Use the lyric hair pin drop more than once. She puts lesbian flag colors as the main lighting in her world wide tour. And much much more. Is obvious, really out there for the people who want to see it to see.
Once you see that, you have no option but to hope she is queer; because if she was not, she would only be a straight girl that harmed the queer comunity by taking all the simbolisim that lgbtq+ people have built througt the ages and making it hetero to the mainstream, erasing the very little history the comunity has managed to create in the opressed world that it had have to endure.
So, even if I think that the answer to my previous post was really well written and respectful, I do not think it is a really nuance take.
PD: To the person behind the original blog that posted the answer, if you have read this and recognised yourself on it, just know this is not a personal attack and I apologize before hand if that felt like that to you.
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People saying the tortured poets department is somehow tied to Joe because of ONE word that coincides with Joe friends groupchat , but dismissing queer analysis of Taylor lyrics based on queer history and references and parallels that Taylor has done herself is wild to me.
We are all just guessing. Is just guessing. Hetlors are speculating as much as gaylors are.
The only difference is that gaylors get harrased because of that speculation
lesbians love and support our trans sisters ππ
Tell me why the actual fuck I was crying because the girl I like went back to her shitty boyfriend and then all of a sudden my head just go: "at least you are not crying for a man" ???like??? Wtf is wrong with me???
Of course Taylor Swift is straight. Is totally straight to dress up as Sappho and hide in a glass closet to sing in the MV of the first track of your really queer album where you sing "thats my man" so many times that is just campy and ridculous considering how queercoded that lyrics are. Those gaylors are just taking it too far.
Wanted To Share My Favorite Taylor Swift Songs As Quotes: My Interpretation
Dancing with our hands tied
King of my heart
Ivy
Willow
London Boy
Betty
Delicate
False God
Vigilante sh$t
Lover
YβALL HAVE TIME TO REBLOG THIS. IT TAKES LESS THAN FIVE SECONDS.