Guys who complain about Taylor Swift annoy me
No one can forget last summer when it seemed as if every girl from NPHS attended the Taylor Swift “Eras Tour” concert. I didn’t mind it because I’m secure in my masculinity, and I don’t have the incessant need to control people; I just let people enjoy what they like. At the gym, I heard the “guys” constantly leaving sly remarks of the pop singer. I never understood why some guys feel the urge to hate things that girls enjoy. It shows traits of toxic masculinity: immaturity, weakness, and insecurity, as well as highlighting a defining characteristic–the need to control others.
I’ve never considered myself a “Swiftie.” I couldn’t name a single album even if my life depended on it; my tiny man brain still doesn’t understand the concept of “eras.” Taylor Swift basically has become a Messiah, with lyrics resonating across the globe primarily to young women such as the line, “Fighting with him was like trying to solve a crossword and realizing there’s no right answer,” from her song “Red.”
Personally, it just sounds like she’s attempting the broken puzzle from the fun-and-games section in the Panther Prowler.
In manhood, you are expected to know about or have as much passion for the “big game” to the extent of someone like Coach Joe Smigel. When Taylor Swift started dating the Kansas City Chiefs player, Travis Kelce, otherwise known as “Taylor’s boyfriend,” that was too much for some man-children. Suddenly there was an influx of new fans to football who just so happened to be wo…wo…women! Every time Tay Tay was shown sitting in the audience for five seconds in a two-hour long game, disgruntled fans would melt in a pool of their own misogyny. It just seemed like another example of us men gatekeeping things we enjoy from women, something us guys have done since the beginning of time, from voting, and now, to football.
Eventually, “Taylor’s team,” took the great state of Kansas all the way to the Superbowl. This caused misogynists all across America to band together with the city of San Francisco, a city well known for its traditional values. Basically, Taylor’s team won, and as a result, everyone was a little furious: Kelce didn’t propose to Taylor, and the misogynists were left to relish in their own self-pity. The root of this strives completely from envy and an inferiority complex; these men can’t accept that Travis Kelce, who fits a masculine archetype, is dating a successful woman. However, this inferiority complex is universal in men and starts from a young age when comparing themselves to their fathers and peers. So as long as there’s something girls enjoy, some men are just gonna hate, hate, hate.
