Truth Is Truth: The Taylor Swift Reckoning
The ethos of this blog, my writing, indeed, this phase of my life, is to be totally open and honest, to bare my soul, to say how I really feel about everything, starting with the fact that Jewish girls are smoking hot. This isn’t easy. And sometimes, it’s really really hard. But I believe it is important. So, I don’t want to say what I’m about to say, which is why I have to say it. I’m not joking when I say this HURTS!
So, I’m bored in the middle of the night aimlessly searching Google. I scroll through a list of news stories and I see the story about Taylor Swift objecting to a joke about her in a Netflix show. This is another instance of “Taylor being Taylor”. She’s not wrong, but she could have let it go. But she doesn’t let anything go. That’s her identity.
Taylor Swift flame wars are always interesting, so I take the bait and click. After scanning the news story enough to flesh out what the vague headline didn’t reveal, I Google Image search Taylor Swift. Why? Simple. I’m bored and she’s smoking hot. I knew she was smoking hot, but when I see her most recent pictures, she is so transcendently beautiful, I feel like she might be challenging Amanda Seyfried’s crown as the most beautiful woman on earth that I’ve seen.
I immediately hate myself for having this reaction. I mean, I love Amanda’s movies and Taylor’s music is not for me. And Amanda is part of my Jewish MAT Girl club. It feels like a betrayal to think anyone might be as cute as her. I want to keep Amanda and Scarlett at the top of my list unchallenged forever. I actually don’t WANT anyone to ever be more beautiful than them because I like them in a childish sentimental kind of way, like a kid with a poster of his sports hero on the wall.
It was hard enough for me to accept a while back that Taylor had become nuclear smoking hot. And now it’s like she’s getting cuter every day. Is it sexist for me to say that, Taylor? I guess this makes sense that she looks better every time I see her given that, unlike most men, for me the usual peak of female beauty is 35-40. Which makes the idea of Taylor Swift in a few years frightening.
Also, I’m into women’s fashion and a girl being well-dressed goes a long way to enhancing her attractiveness to me. I was never particularly enthralled with Taylor Swift’s style in the past, but in all her recent photos, she has on the most beautiful outfits and the most flattering hairstyles. I can’t even handle how good she looks right now. It is, literally, breathtaking.
So why do I hate saying this? It’s not really a controversial view that Taylor Swift is one of the hottest girls around. She’s famous for both her music and her beauty. It’s because she’s the most cliche answer possible to ANY question. She’s America’s prom queen, and nobody wants to heap more praise on the prom queen. It’s disgusting. And she has her...ummm...challenging personality on top of that. But if we’re honestly going to be an equal society, prom queens with challenging personalities need love, too.
In scrolling through her images, I saw the headline “Taylor Swift: Why Is It So Difficult to Support Her?”. And that is really THE valid question, the one I have to answer for myself.
Race is part of it. If I saw any Black girl in entertainment and felt like she might be the hottest woman alive, I wouldn’t have any hesitation about coming on here and raving about it (like I did with Tessa Thompson a little while back). And the fact that they are Jewish is not an insignificant reason why I feel comfortable saying the things I’ve said about Amanda Seyfried and Scarlett Johansson, but not Taylor Swift.
Look, it’s a fact that a Black man being attracted to a White woman is STILL a controversial thing with many people in this society. The fact that this is still true in the 21st century makes me want to relocate to another galaxy, but since that’s not an option, I’ll have to stay here and try to fight it. And for now, I’m fighting by unashamedly declaring the truth about Taylor Swift.
My tastes are diverse. I’ve talked about Laura Coates, Tessa Thompson, Lupita Nyong’o, Rihanna and a bunch of other Black girls as being near the top of my smoking hot list. I wrote about Ryan Michelle Bathe a while ago, and if she wasn’t married to an old friend of mine, that post would have contained some stronger statements than it already does. Not to mention all the Jewish and Latina girls I’ve talked about here.
In this society, the same attitude applies in this arena as the old homophobic bridgebuilder/cocksucker joke. If a Black man likes ONE White girl, he’s the “Black guy who is obsessed with White girls”. Knowing this, I feel a degree of self-consciousness any time I discuss the beauty of a White woman, especially a blonde one, for a number of reasons that I’m going to be writing about soon.
But beyond that, I just don’t want to give Taylor that much credit. I want to hold on and refuse her that because she seems to have so much already. I’m sure my opinion is not important to her. But as little as what I think about her is worth, I don’t want her to have it! It was hard enough to write the positive things I said about her in the piece I posted a while back, “I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Taylor Swift”. I want Amanda Seyfried, Scarlett Johansson, Natalie Portman and all these other girls I’ve mentioned on this blog to know the admiration I have for them. I don’t want Taylor Swift to know I like her! In fact, I don’t want to like her at all!
On top of all that, I don’t want my top three list of the most beautiful women in the world, maybe in history, to begin with three blonde “White” girls (four actually because Grace Kelly’s probably next—yes, those three have her beat). But truth is truth and I cannot deny what I’ve just experienced...
As of now, the three most beautiful women I’ve ever seen in my life are Scarlett Johansson, Amanda Seyfried, and Taylor Swift. I’m no longer sure who’s first. Amanda won on television, Taylor won on the internet, and Scarlett won in real life. If I could ever get the three of them in the same room with me and figure it out...I might not survive that LOL
Since Amanda is married and Scarlett's married...Taylor, I’m sure I’m not your type, but just for the record, I’m AVAILABLE! I like cats, too. But anyway, you are so...I won’t say it to you. You can’t make me!
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