“Look what you made me do”

Mad, Cow-Scientist
Aug 28, 2017 · 2 min read

Those are the words of an abuser. The words of someone playing the victim. Someone who has the emotional IQ of a toddler and refuses to take responsibility for their own actions. These are now also the words of Taylor Swift; a white, middle-to-upper-class (before she became famous and insulated by wealth) white woman who has made her living off being the self-aware victim who shrugs off the verbal abuse of her accusers. I was content to hate Swift and her “music” for the past 7 years or so since she showed up on my radar simply because the bitch can’t sing…or write. I was content to mostly ignore her or laugh at her, her stories of love gone wrong. But now…now, I cannot just sit idly to the side while she spouts the mantra of so many abusers: “Look at what you made me do.”

Let’s just get this out there: no one makes anyone do anything unless there is a proverbial gun to their head, which there most certainly is not in the case of Swift. Other people might, by either accident or purpose, make you angry or sad, but they do not make you do anything. Your actions are your choices, and yours alone. I have, sadly, been on the receiving end of a well-timed insult or blow, followed by the menacing, hateful trope, “look what you made me do”.

And, make no mistake about it, the latest T. Swift offering is nothing less than an accusers admonishment to their victim, placing the responsibility of their actions on someone else. This, coupled with her “you must buy hordes of my useless, self-promoting shit to even hope to buy a ticket” self-aggrandizing shit-show, tells me everything I never wanted to know about her: she’s a greedy, vapid, talent-less hack.

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Mad, Cow-Scientist

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Wife, lesbian, mother, scientist, philosopher. I spend most of my free time pouring metaphorical salt in my metaphysical wounds.

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