Solid pro-feminist advice to young women on how to marry smart

[Joie_de_Vivre]

1. This article is written in the snarky, sarcastic tone that is so popular with women’s magazines and media these days. This is not 100% literal, it is mixing good advice with hyperbole to make a general point.
2. It doesn’t seem that you know the first thing about feminism. If you did, you would know better than to group them all together.
3. Taylor Swift is a very devout and public catholic.
4. I’m pretty sure you don’t care about points 1-3, you just wanted to vent some of your anger towards women.

I wasn’t aware Taylor Swift said she is Catholic.

 

[Allegra]

Er… is it really that hard to understand?

The way I take it, she’s saying “be open to making mistakes. Embrace them and learn from them.” She’s just saying it poetically, that’s all.

Poetically? It sounds like she’s encouraging people to make really stupid, self-harming, even dangerous mistakes in their personal lives on purpose. Her advice is so stupid, it leads the reader to think she is making fun of people who do those things, but its really hard to say.

 

[Allegra]

I wasn’t aware Taylor Swift said she is Catholic.

I don’t know if she’s Catholic, but she’s definatly not public about it.

 

[R_C]

No, I believe this article is being 100% serious in the advice it offers. And like I said, it’s a good thing that this advice doesn’t come from any hatred of women at all… this is the information that women are being fed, either directly from these kinds of articles on the blogosphere, or indirectly like music

So basically your intent is to expose this sort of counterfeit advice and to point out that it reflects a view that is in fact against the dignity of womanhood even though it is presented as serious advice by supposedly pro-woman/feminist sources.

However you may want to point that out explicitly. At first it seems like you yourself are supporting this kind of counterfeit advice as something to be seriously considered. It would be good to make it clear where you stand, or to point out it is, in fact, bad advice from supposedly “good” or “trustworthy” sources.

 

[fastenatingguy]

I don’t know if she’s Catholic, but she’s definatly not public about it.

Apparently she is Presbyterian, but her brother may have graduated from Notre Dame.

She is a nice Christian girl in any respect, in a tough business for Christians.

 

[Petaro]

All very American and modern. Advice to the love lorn from sex in the city. Left me with a bad taste in the mouth and a pleasurable understanding that I don’t live in that culture. Ugly and small.

 

[Rawb]

Taylor Swift is rather antithetical to advice to embrace and enjoy being single for a while. I suppose though that she fulfills the advice to date a ton of guys. At any rate she’s not someone I would encourage as a role model.

 

[on_the_hill]

This is blatantly obvious. The writer is lampooning her own experiences. Don’t read into it from any sort of perspective other than satire.

Here’s my man-to-man advice to young men about what to do when the love of your life breaks up with you:

“Go to a New Year’s Eve party at a friend’s house. Have a really good time, and drink too much. Start to lament your lost love. Get surrounded by female friends who pour sympathy over you like maple syrup on a stack of waffles. Feel even more sorry for yourself. Walk around the party emptying half-drunk champagne flutes by drinking them. Feel sick. Go outside and vomit on your friend’s front porch. Have someone brave drive you home. Spend New Year’s Day horribly hungover. Realize that the booze didn’t help your problems. Vow to never drink again. Repeat as necessary.”

Get it?

 

[Estevao]

1. This article is written in the snarky, sarcastic tone that is so popular with women’s magazines and media these days. This is not 100% literal, it is mixing good advice with hyperbole to make a general point.
2. It doesn’t seem that you know the first thing about feminism. If you did, you would know better than to group them all together.
3. Taylor Swift is a very devout and public catholic.
4. I’m pretty sure you don’t care about points 1-3, you just wanted to vent some of your anger towards women.

1. Every bolded point from the article is serious advice. The flourishes that come after do not detract from the 100% solid pro-feminist advice young girls are being offered similar to this from all media streams.
2. No, au contraire, I know quite a bit about feminism. I’ve delved into the writings of Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, and the proto-feminist Friedrich Engels.
3. That’s news to me. I detect nothing in her music about the necessity of Salvation, repentance, nor the Catholic Church. Honestly I don’t care about celebrities personal lives, only what gets played on the radio/internet/TV, because that is what is influencing young people. From what I can tell from her songs, they are just the same as this 100% pro-feminist and non-misogynist advice on how to marry smart.
4. I harbor no ill will toward women. Why would you think I do?

 

[Joie_de_Vivre]

1. Every bolded point from the article is serious advice. The flourishes that come after do not detract from the 100% solid pro-feminist advice young girls are being offered similar to this from all media streams.
2. No, au contraire, I know quite a bit about feminism. I’ve delved into the writings of Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, and the proto-feminist Friedrich Engels.
3. That’s news to me. I detect nothing in her music about the necessity of Salvation, repentance, nor the Catholic Church. Honestly I don’t care about celebrities personal lives, only what gets played on the radio/internet/TV, because that is what is influencing young people. From what I can tell from her songs, they are just the same as this 100% pro-feminist and non-misogynist advice on how to marry smart.
4. I harbor no ill will toward women. Why would you think I do?

1. Not really
2. Try Mary Wollstonecraft, Florence Nightingale, Susan B. Anthony, Roquia Sakhawat Hussain, Virginia Woolf,
3. Seriously