Taylor Swift Calls Out Fans Who Sexualized Her Friendships With Women

🚨 | @TaylorSwift13 for "1989 (TV)" Prologue:

— “If I only hung out with my female friends. People couldn't sensationalize or sexualize that-right? I would learn later on that people could and people would.” pic.twitter.com/LBn4bafZE3

— Taylor Swift Facts (@blessedswifty) October 26, 2023

“It became clear to me that for me there was no such thing as casual dating, or even having a male friend who you platonically hang out with,” Swift wrote in a new prologue for the LP. “It was assumed I was sleeping with him. And so I swore off hanging out with guys. Dating, flirting, or anything that could be weaponized against me by a culture that claimed to believe in liberating women but consistently treated me with the harsh moral codes of the Victorian Era.”

“Being a consummate optimist, I assumed I could fix this if I simply changed my behavior. I swore off dating and decided to focus only on myself, my music, my growth, and my female friendships. If I only hung out with my female friends, people couldn’t sensationalize or sexualize that right,” she continued. “I would learn later on that people could and people would.”

It’s not exactly a glowing review of the fans and listeners who speculated and continue to speculate about the singer's sexuality and her close relationship with female friends like Dianna Agron and Karlie Kloss.

It also may be the most damning evidence that Taylor is, after all, completely straight. We obviously don’t have the entire prologue to read or listen to, but based on what we have, it seems like a young Swift had no idea that two women hanging out all the time could be seen as romantic or sexual at all.

Good for Taylor to not be hung up on homophobic ideas that anyone of the same sex getting too close to each other is “gay.” And we agree that for her entire career, her relationships and private life have been unfairly judged and scrutinized. But also, we can’t help but note how impossibly straight it is to assume that no one would think you’re being romantic or sexual if you spend all your time with people of the same gender.

What’s more, Swift also does not seem to be very happy with fans who started taking her female friendships and sexualizing them. She is pretty clear that, at least at some points in her life, she spent time with mostly other women in order to avoid relationship rumors and talk about her sexuality.

We’ll have to wait until tonight to listen to the whole album and see if it really is the final nail in the Gaylor coffin.