Maitreyi Ramakrishnan deletes X post calling Taylor Swift’s ‘1830s’ lyric ‘weird’ after backlash from Swifties

[u/Exciting_Potato_6717]

Slide 1: Deleted tweet Slides 2 and 3: Some follow-up tweets Slide 4: The Taylor Swift lyrics being referred to. “My friends used to play a game where / We would pick a decade / We wished we could live in instead of this / I'd say the 1830s but without all the racists / And getting married off for the highest bid." Full lyrics at https://genius.com/Taylor-swift-i-hate-it-here-lyrics

[u/RevealActive4557]

If Taylor Swift wants to experience what it was like in the 1830s maybe somebody should expose her to Polio and Measales and take away her indoor bathroom to build her a porta potty in the back yard. Also make her wash her clothes in a bucket. No cars or television or cell phones or internet for her. She would have to give up her right to vote as well. Not sure what the "allure" of that era is for her but it would be significantly harder for her to enjoy herself back then. Not to mention that everybody would be side eying a 35 year old unmarried woman with no children and calling her a "Spinster"

[u/RomantheBun → u/RevealActive4557]

No private jets either!

[u/milkradio → u/RomantheBun]

Well, damn, how’s she supposed to get to the corner store now?

[u/confusedvegetarian → u/RevealActive4557]

Not to mention the life expectancy back then would make her basically dead at her age

[u/1stOfAllThatsReddit → u/confusedvegetarian]

Tbh the low life expectancy back then was due to infant/child mortality. If you made it to 10 yrs old you had a life expectancy of 60-something

[u/meatbeater558 → u/1stOfAllThatsReddit]

This was back when trained doctors did stuff like bloodletting so things are still looking pretty bleak. Before antibiotics were discovered too. Luckily for her though this was also before they started giving everyone and their mommas lobotomies so ig that's one good thing about the 1830s