It was only a few years ago that Taylor Swift’s “girl squad” was the stuff of legend – not to mention an inescapable feature of our Instagram feeds.
A veritable who’s who of 20-something “it” girls – models, actresses, musicians – all publicly gushing over each other in interviews, showing up at each other’s work, and wearing coordinating outfits as they splashed about in Swift’s Hampton’s estate pool in photos seemingly too perfect to be real from her annual Fourth of July parties.
The girl squad featured a revolving door of Hollywood’s young, beautiful and successful – each year with new, and sometimes missing, faces. Those of Blake Lively, Jaime King, Karlie Kloss, Selena Gomez and the Hadid sisters seemed permanent fixtures, while others, including Lorde, Lena Dunham, the Haim sisters, Ellie Goulding and Serayah, came and went.
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"In my twenties I found myself surrounded by girls who wanted to be my friend. So I shouted it from the rooftops, posted pictures, and celebrated my newfound acceptance into a sisterhood, without realising that other people might still feel the way I did when I felt so alone."
Uh, no, not quite, Taylor. People who called your white girl gangs out as offensive and the antithesis of feminism didn't do so because they were insecure and wanted to be a part of your squad.
Seems she's halfway to enlightenment, but still has some way to go. Until she realises that that kind of behaviour isn't "goals" for women, she won't progress.
Halfway to enlightenment? More like all the way to narcissism.
Yeah, I was trying to be generous. For her to even admit to a modicum of tone-deafness and stupidity is a big step forward.
So, she's acknowledging it was immature and divisive - years too late, but OK. Is she also going to walk back all the allegations that you were a "bully", "unfeminist" or a "hater" if you had the audacity to point out how stupid and attention-seeking the whole stunt was?