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I wish people would stop posting links to news websites with paywalls.
Okilly dokilly, I change link to the archived version
The sexism and racism at the time was ridiculous. Jackson was, essentially, the victim in that situation, and Timberlake was mostly ignored. It seems most plausible that he was supposed to rip off just 1 later, not two; an easy mistake to make.
Yet the director/publicist/team that planned the poorly-conceived stunt and the person who made the mistake weren’t black women. (Or who knows behind the scenes, but they weren’t known to be black women.)
And here we are again with Taylor Swift getting hate for daring to be a successful woman and to endorse the person running against the “grab-her-by-the-pussy” misogynist. Ironic. And depressing.
Most hate I’ve seen against Taylor Swift is that she’s a successful woman. “She’s at my football game.” Okay? And? “She’s just too popular”. Again, and? Most of the time when you drill into the real reason why they don’t like it it boils down to “she’s a successful woman on my TV” and if that doesn’t make sense then congrats, you’re right it doesn’t.
_except for her private jet usage that’s legitimate criticism _
From a Finnish perspective, a big controversy starting because of a woman accidentally flashing a bit of bare skin felt ridiculous. Nudity isn’t a similar taboo here compared to USA because of saunas.