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The music video for Taylor Swift's "You Must Calm" has just been dropped, but Twitter is anything but calming down. The lyrics were already openly anti-homophobia but the video numbers it up to 1000 (in case they would be too subtle ?!). With a Rainbow Trailer Park and about a thousand celebrities the video shows Taytay and his colorful gay friends (and Katy Perry because, in case you have not heard it, their conflict is over ) chillin & # 39; and be fabulous while being shouted by a bumpkin band waving placards (THE HOMOPHOBES). However, people are far agreeing with how stereotypes are stereotyped in just three and a half minutes:
The Anti-LGBTQ + Lewk
About the middle of the video, we are introduced to the anti-LGBTQ + crowd protesting the false marriage of Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Justin Mikita. Of course, they are described with as much nuance as the lyrics of the song. Seriously, look at this guy:
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Ooft.
We even see a sign" GET A BRAIN MORAIN "many times, because IRONIE! These are you, the edentulous and clothed protesters, who are the crazy!
The implication is that it is the backward country types that are the real bad guys here (admittedly, saying that the implication is a little generous – all this video is so much on the nose that it could kick me out.) However, as far as I'll like to say stupidly, this stereotype is far from being true. Queer's Fab 5 Eye (who also play in this video) OWN SHOW DEMONSTRATES, even if you are the most crimson of rednecks does not mean that you are also a hateful person.Our real threat is not always aggro protesters: it's the costume-wear Bigots occupying positions of responsibility, which can be even more dangerous.
Rainbows! Shine!
The bearers of signs contrast with the hero of our video, Taylor Swi – I mean, the LGBTQ community, of course! There are so many drag queens in this video that I can basically taste the hairspray from here. As fabulous as it also corresponds to many stereotypes about pride. On the one hand, queer male celebrities way outnumber queer female celebrities (Alexa, what's a bad?) Moreover, at one time where there are many initiatives to bring Pride back to his activist roots, perhaps a video show the LGBTQ community as a big party is it a little deaf?
Whatever the case may be, the petition linked to the end of the video contains more than 200,000 signatures, so that at least the stereotypes are useful for something. And in the end, there are so many springing reactions from the queer community sprinkled between those who are angry.
Despite the backlash, Taylor makes a positive move late in the day. And we can not hate about it.
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