celeb news Taylor Swift and her team are mad about her fans & the media calling her gay — CNN

[Shimenawa]

3 minutes ago, Timeless said:

Have you ever had friends in your life

Don't cry about people speculating about your sexuality if you take these kind of pics!

[Rebecca]

That they are so defensive just reeks of homophobia. 

[rihannasbe$tfrnd]

It’s time to destroy Taylor Swift. ENOUGH of this mediocrity being excused. 

[Into The Void]

16 minutes ago, ChrisTheLoner said:

Speculating someones sexuality is wrong and it should be called out 

Doesn't seem to matter when it comes to Shawn Mendes 

[Rebecca]

The article is pathetic and invasive, but that’s what happens when you  strategically cultivate, over the course of almost two decades, a parasocial relationship with your fans.  You can’t have your cake and eat it too. 

[Badgalbriel]

5 minutes ago, Shimenawa said:

Don't cry about people speculating about your sexuality if you take these kind of pics!

This is the dumbest **** I've ever read here. You must not have contact with the outside world. 

[Velvet Night]

Glad Taylors people said something. I can’t imagine how annoying it is for Taylor.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with being a queer person or absorbing art and seeing it through a queer lens. However, insisting that someone is a sexuality that they are not when they have explicitly stated so is invasive and wrong. The whole NYT article was very weird and a deeply weird choice to publish it.

[Shimenawa]

2 minutes ago, Badgalbriel said:

This is the dumbest **** I've ever read here. You must not have contact with the outside world. 

Yes you got me I live alone in the woods!

[Jeremiah]

Her fans dead silent because they are who started it

[readytowind]

shes not a real lgbt ally actually. dont drag her. thats how she is.

shes just attracting gays for money.

except white girls, only dumb gays are stanning her.

Edited January 6 by readytowind

[Shimenawa]

1 minute ago, readytowind said:

shes not a real lgbt ally actually. dont drag her. thats how she is.

It makes her You Need To Calm Down song even more fake now!

[Mandalore]

Nothing wrong with experiencing art through your own personal gay lens. Gay men can enjoy music made by heterosexual women for that reason. What's actually wrong is projecting those subjective personal interpretation onto the artist, calling them a closeted liar, denying them any agency over their own indentity and personhood under the guise of it's all some sort of "performance art". It's genuinely disturbing that so many queer people seem to adopt/condone this bs, it's even more disturbing (well, not really) that the NYT decided to platform a delusional conspiracy theorist...

 

Glad her team finally addressed this. 

Edited January 6 by Mandalore

[ImpressMeMuch]

Taylor has a right to be weirded out by the discussion as a straight person I guess

 

her team is just upset bc this hurts her marketability to the conservatives which is a part of the business plan and promised growth in the mega corporation that her career has become lol

[supaspaz]

11 minutes ago, Rebecca said:

The article is pathetic and invasive, but that’s what happens when you  strategically cultivate, over the course of almost two decades, a parasocial relationship with your fans.  You can’t have your cake and eat it too. 

Same thing with those Deux Moi stories they were angry about. Of course her fans have taken it too far! She needs to set some real boundaries instead of just sending Tree Paine to CNN with an anonymous comment.

[Draper.]

I just don’t understand the point of the fans that want her to be gay so bad. Why would you stan someone who purposely hides their gay relationships for business reasons but sings about so many details about her straight ones when she could use her platform to be a LGBT+ voice? Seems like something someone greedy and selfish would do.

[airplane]

why does she never confront her fans directly (who created this fantasy in the first place)? she’s always using indirect mediums 

Edited January 6 by airplane

[Mandalore]

1 minute ago, Draper. said:

I just don’t understand the point of the fans that want her to be gay so bad. Why would you stan someone who purposely hides their gay relationships for business reasons but sings about so many details about her straight ones when she could use her platform to be a LGBT+ voice? Seems like something someone greedy and selfish would do.

That's a good question, why not spend that energy stanning actual queer artists? But I've come to learn that these people don't even qualify as "fans" they're more infatuated with this fictional character they imagine her as and hyperfixate on it. Like QAnon type ****. 

[Kayseri Mantisi]

1 minute ago, airplane said:

why does she never confront her fans directly? always using indirect mediums like a coward.

[Tusk]

Those who get upset when someone doesn’t use their pronouns correctly are now upset when someone calls themselves straight. 
 

 

[Taylena]

Taylor should come out as a straight woman. 

[Uncatena]

28 minutes ago, Shimenawa said:

Ok Taylor

 

 

 

this literally being peak drunk straight woman behavior

[Tusk]

2 minutes ago, airplane said:

why does she never confront her fans directly? always using indirect mediums like a coward.

She has already said that she is straight numerous times. 
 

Her “fans” are the ones with the lack of respect.

[Mandalore]

7 minutes ago, airplane said:

why does she never confront her fans directly (who created this fantasy in the first place)? she’s always using indirect mediums like a coward. Probably doesn’t wanna lose sales 

She has directly stated she's not part of the LGBTQ community and just an ally in an interview. The prologue of 1989 TV called out the weird sexualisation of her female frendships. They wouldn't stop though because they're delusional consiracy theorists.  Going to CNN and having a well-respected senior editor publish this counters the fact that the freaking New York Times decided it was somehow appropriate to run this "opinion" piece. 

Edited January 6 by Mandalore

[awesomepossum]

Streisand effect! Lemme go read this article now 

Edited January 6 by awesomepossum

[liquiddiamonds]

It’s weird when people do it unironically and it’s beyond weird when one of the biggest papers in the world run an article about it. It’s really a tabloid