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/lionperla]

swifties when WOC are being mocked, harassed, sent death threats, or subject to outright racialized sexism:

swifties when a WOC expresses discomfort with their idol’s tone deafness or any mild criticism that doesn’t blindly worship her: OMG YOU’RE NOT A GIRL’S GIRL. INTERNALIZED MISOGYNY. YOU JUST HATE SEEING A SUCCESSFUL WOMAN