Taylor Swift clapped back for all the women who have been told ‘you didn’t write that’

Taylor Swift knows that the only way to respond when someone tries to slap you down is to slap back. With all your might. Photo: AFP

As someone who has raised two daughters during the age of Taylor Swift, I have a lot of mixed feelings about her music.

While it is admittedly unfair to blame anyone for their thrall over a certain demographic, it is also unfair to expect any adult human to endure countless talent-show renditions of Love Story and You Belong With Me without some lasting trauma. Ditto the endless gridlock-trapped replays of Shake It Off and I Knew You Were Trouble and subsequent conversations about why it is or is not OK for Swift to commit lyric revenge on past romantic partners.