Fans have accused TaylorSwift of promoting fatphobia in her new music video.
The criticism has been levelled at Taylor's music video for, released last week, which she described on Twitter as ‘watching my nightmare scenarios and intrusive thoughts play out in real time’. We see Taylor take shots with her ‘evil’ drunk self, taking notes from a blackboard which reads ‘everyone will betray you’, and stepping onto a pair of scales which then simply display the word ‘fat’.
As soon as the video dropped, people started criticising Taylor's use of the word ‘fat’, calling it fatphobic, insensitive and harmful. “Terrible. Just awful.at its finest. And from a skinny, rich, white, straight cis woman. Your choice to include this will cause intense harm to many people,” read one critique on Twitter. “It is possible to appreciate Taylor Swift and midnight as an artist AND call her out on her blatant fatphobia.
She continued. “Having an eating disorder doesn’t excuse fatphobia. It’s not hard to say, “I’m struggling with my body image today” instead of I’m a fat, disgusting pig.” Taylor has previously been open about her struggles with disordered eating, both in her 2020 documentary– in which she describes seeing “a picture of me where I feel like I looked like my tummy was too big, or… someone said that I looked pregnant … and that’ll just trigger me to just starve a little bit… just stop eating” – and press interviews, including with
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