Taylor Swift’s music has a lot of guts. But the pop star herself evidently has a spine made of jello. She is the latest singer to self-censor her art in response to extremely niche and eminently unreasonable online outrage.
The controversy stemmed from the music video for Swift’s song “Anti-Hero.” In one scene in the video, Swift is depicted standing on a scale. A close-up flashes and, instead of a number, the scale shows the word “FAT.”Apparently missing the entire point of the video and this scene, a tiny but very vocal internet outrage mob declared it “fatphobic” and screeched into the online ether.
— Shira Rose October 21, 2022 hey did you know you can talk about your body image issues without being fatphobic? did you know that fat is not the worst thing you can be? feeling fat and being fat are separate experiences, did you know that?— fat sajak-o-lantern October 22, 2022 The idea of being “fat” might be an “intrusive thought” or a “nightmare” for Taylor Swift — a valid experience that many people of all sizes can relate to. But the fact is that she has never lived in a “fat” body.
So far, none of this is surprising. Everything with any actual substance to it is offensive to someone somewhere, and social media has allowed fringe voices to seem amplified far beyond their actual number and significance. Where this story gets crazy is that Taylor Swift has now self-censored her own art and, in response to the niche online outrage, replaced the video on both YouTube and Apple Music with a version that does not depict the controversial scene.
This was, of course, obvious to anyone with two brain cells left to rub together. The scene was very clearly not intended to stigmatize or insult fat people but to depict the shame that even skinny people can feel about their bodies. Indeed, Swift has been open about her past struggles with an eating disorder. It’s not “offensive” for her to accurately depict how weighing herself made her feel — if anything, she’s depicting something millions of people can probably relate to.
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