A student Trump campaigner accused Taylor Swift of ‘grooming’ women to hate men and this magnificent response was everything
We hadn’t come across Ryan Fournier before and by the looks of it we definitely haven’t missed out.
Fournier is chair of something called ‘Students for Trump’ and he’s been making a bit of a noise on Twitter when he took aim at Taylor Swift suggesting she was ‘grooming’ a generation of women to hate men.
Taylor Swift… A multibillionaire… gets an entire audience of mainly kids to scream “F*ck the Patriarchy.”
Grooming an entire generation to hate men.pic.twitter.com/lycHfUmP7n
— Ryan Fournier (@RyanAFournier) June 23, 2024
Nothing like annoying all the right men is there?
And it prompted no end of responses as you might imagine.
The most popular musician in the world will write a song about having her heart broken by a male feminist with a fuck the patriarchy keychain—
—and the right won’t even attempt to turn it into the mildest of cultural victories. They are allergic to winning. They must remain… https://t.co/KS8AXm7Vf3
— Christine Eriksen (@AnEriksenWife) June 24, 2024
THE PATRIARCHY IS NOT THE SAME AS MEN
the patriarchy is a societal system that favours men. thats not the same thing https://t.co/08vgBUPFtr— Rosie (@rosieswiftiee) June 25, 2024
Boys are watching porn of actual women being choked, slapped, bound, drugged, and spit on by men who call them “whores” and worse – but a woman saying words you disagree with is “grooming an entire generation”. https://t.co/Xc5W9ULB3Q
— Genevieve Gluck (@WomenReadWomen) June 24, 2024
I hated men long before Taylor “got me to scream fuck the patriarchy” https://t.co/Nx7HfomtJP
— Fran (@wildesttiptoes) June 24, 2024
But it was this community note, a Twitter-style correction and clarification, which surely shouted loudest, as highlighted by @briantylercohen
Ooof. And while it’s important, obviously, to remember the ‘allegedly’ bit, here’s precisely what many people made of that.
That community note just made a room full of people look my way because of how loudly I laughed.
— hottie von leftist (@34convictions) June 25, 2024
Dead. Just dead.
— Michael VanDeMar (@mvandemar) June 25, 2024
i love when community notes fire back at maga
— rylan (@ryryw2003) June 25, 2024
And once again, the Internet extends it’s undefeated streak.
— Chris Flanagan (@MachineShedFred) June 25, 2024
H/T @briantylercohen
