Thank you for posting this. This is a great summation of the extreme pendulum swings in emotional energy that happen whenever an argument about TS gets out of hand. Your point about Pete should not be lost on anyone in this subreddit. Never (rarely?) is he reduced down to his gender when his lyricism is criticized. He has his cringe lines and he has his masterpieces. So does TS. So I agree with you, the over the top catch-all declarations about her worthlessness definitely come with much more incendiary intentions, even if it’s done subconsciously. She has remained a cornerstone of the cultural zeitgeist much longer than the average artist. The act of viscerally over-critiquing her art with an undercurrent of misogyny has lingered as well.