Over a round of park golf yesterday, after about an hour of discussing the zaniness of the US Presidential Election 2024, my friend and I landed on Taylor Swift as the person most likely to defeat Donald Trump this fall. Now, at this point, we were mostly joking around because, as far as I know, there's been absolutely no indication that she's even being considered or would consider the job.
My friend was more serious earlier on when he brought up Cory Booker, the Democratic Senator from New Jersey who ran for president in 2020. So we then decided that Booker-Swift had a nice ring to it, though I suggested it sounded more like something from Reconstruction-Era history, like some sort of teaming up between African-Americans and women to overthrow their white male oppressors, you know, the Booker-Swift Revolt of 1871!
Anyway, your article felt too timely not to share this silly anecdote on, John.
PS In all seirousness, while I know she's tremendously popular, I suspect that the way-too-many-fan shots of her at those Chiefs games last year soured her for a lot of people, myself included. I actually like some of her music, and have for over a decade, but the contrarian in me has always rebelled against media figures that get shoved into my attention too much, a la Michael Jordan in the 1990s. And her boyfriend, while a great football player, dropped in the estimation of many, myself included, by being a shill for a shady pharmaceutical company. I won't hold that against Taylor, it's just one of those annoying things about her relationship with him.
Over a round of park golf yesterday, after about an hour of discussing the zaniness of the US Presidential Election 2024, my friend and I landed on Taylor Swift as the person most likely to defeat Donald Trump this fall. Now, at this point, we were mostly joking around because, as far as I know, there's been absolutely no indication that she's even being considered or would consider the job.
My friend was more serious earlier on when he brought up Cory Booker, the Democratic Senator from New Jersey who ran for president in 2020. So we then decided that Booker-Swift had a nice ring to it, though I suggested it sounded more like something from Reconstruction-Era history, like some sort of teaming up between African-Americans and women to overthrow their white male oppressors, you know, the Booker-Swift Revolt of 1871!
Anyway, your article felt too timely not to share this silly anecdote on, John.
PS In all seirousness, while I know she's tremendously popular, I suspect that the way-too-many-fan shots of her at those Chiefs games last year soured her for a lot of people, myself included. I actually like some of her music, and have for over a decade, but the contrarian in me has always rebelled against media figures that get shoved into my attention too much, a la Michael Jordan in the 1990s. And her boyfriend, while a great football player, dropped in the estimation of many, myself included, by being a shill for a shady pharmaceutical company. I won't hold that against Taylor, it's just one of those annoying things about her relationship with him.
Substack Reads suggested this article which is of interest to me as I think about a metamodern healthy feminism. https://lkennedy.substack.com/p/women-are-supposed-to-want-to-be-576