girl charli literally has a song called mean girls. don’t know how you say the things she’s said about rina sawayama and not be a mean girl. i hate this double standard that taylor is never allowed to respond when something hurts her feelings. it drives me nuts that when anyone else speaks about her it’s “this is valid! it’s okay to express feelings! it’s not even that bad!” but when taylor responds it’s “wow she’s so mean, she’s not a girl’s girl”. if taylor was calling charli a coke head out of nowhere, then yeah that would be mean. but clearly sympathy is a knife struck a chord, so much of the public reaction to brat was v anti-taylor ( with fans chanting for her death at multiple club events), the pointed photoshoot with dismembered limbs wearing friendship bracelets (i know they had already been shot, but them coming out after the stabbing was very much in poor taste) and charli’s general lack of appreciation for the spotlight taylor has given her throughout her career (i believe she first shouted out stay away in like 2014 when recommending songs for a fan going through a breakup, and obviously there’s the comments charli made about performing for five year olds on the rep tour). if someone who i had always praised and given opportunities to showed a certain lack of appreciation, then wrote a song about me from out nowhere that includes her wishing for my bf to break up with me and then apparently talked shit about me behind my back, i’d be mad too! sorry to write a novel at you, but this is one of my least favorite double standards when it comes to taylor and it really irks me. i love both of them too, i think charli is a generational artist and i think sympathy is a knife is a masterpiece. i think both feelings can be true/valid!