It's funny how Taylor Swift was able to performatively pander to the LGBT crows, all while hoping they'd forget about her homophobic lyrics in "Picture to Burn."
Read up, buttercup!
https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/taylor-swift-once-criticized-one-of-her-early-hits-and-censored-its-video.html/
The article is misleading and a blatant lie, as she has never apologized or publicly made a comment about it.
Taylor Swift, kill yourself.
Donald Trump, kill yourself.
Dont be obtuse. I've provided full-context for you.
"Taylor Swift, meanwhile, has a word skeleton that she’s relegated to the closet for good. She too released a song in 2008, “Picture to Burn,” which, curiously, also has lyrics that have been tagged as possibly homophobic. The acerbic song about a high school ex includes the takedown“I realize you love yourself more than you could ever love me/ So go and tell all your friends that I’m obsessive and crazy/ That’s fine, I’ll tell mine/ You’re gay, by the way.”
In a 2011 interview with MTV, Swift chalked the lyrics up to her teen state of mind, saying, “Now, the way that I would say that and the way that I would feel that kind of pain is a lot different.” She didn’t regret the sentiment on her eponymous 2006 debut, though, adding, “I look back on the record I made when I was 16, and I’m so happy I made it. I got to immortalize those emotions that when you’re so angry, you hate everything. It’s like recording your diary over the years, and that’s a gift.”
https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/katy-perry-taylor-swift-jay-z-lyrical-regrets-7882332/
Careful, slave. You know that you're in my simulation and all mental health terminology is just…
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“So go and tell all your friends that I'mobsessiveandcrazy/ That's fine, I'll tell mine/ You'regay."
Insanity, madness, and craziness are terms that describe a spectrum of individual and group behaviors that are characterized by certain abnormal mental or behavioral patterns. Insanity can be manifest as violations of societal norms, including a person or persons becoming a danger to themselves or to other people. Conceptually, mental insanity also is associated with the biological phenomenon of contagion (that mental illness is infectious) as in the case of copycat suicides. In contemporary usage, the term insanity is an informal, un-scientific term denoting "mental instability"; thus, the term insanity defense is the legal definition of mental instability. In medicine, the general term psychosis is used to include the presence either of delusions or of hallucinations or both in a patient;[1] and psychiatric illness is "psychopathology", not mental insanity.[2]
Taylor Swift is mentally ill.
Lock her up!
https://daily.jstor.org/queer-time-the-alternative-to-adulting/
In its 2015 “word of the year” vote, the American Dialect Society shortlisted the verb form of “adult”—i.e., “adulting”—as one of the “Most Creative” new usages. The term’s emergence among Millennials speaks to a generational uncertainty about what it means to grow up—or rather, about the behaviors one associates with adulthood. This uncertainty manifests as a kind of self-consciousness about what the “right” age is to partner off, have kids, buy a house, settle into a career. The conversion of the noun into verb form implies that adulting is more performance than inevitability. In fact, books like Kelly Williams Brown’s Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps imply that adulting is a series of behaviors that can be chosen or learned.
Yet what constitutes adulthood has never been self-evident or value-neutral.If conventional markers of being an adult include getting a “real job” or purchasing property, for whom are those goals accessible? For whom are they a matter not of choice but of economic reality?In “Constructing Adulthood in an Age of Uncertainty,” the sociologist Jennifer M. Silva notes that in “the contemporary post-industrial world… traditional markers of adulthood have become tenuous.” She interviewed working-class young people in their 20s and 30s to explore how they’ve redefined adulthood in an era of declining economic opportunity.
Gay Men Earn Degrees at Highest Rate, Study Finds
Roughly 52 percent of gay men in the U.S. have a bachelor’s degree, compared to 36 percent of all adults. Their academic achievement shows resilience in the face of victimization.
By Maria Carrasco
November 30, 2021
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/11/30/gay-men-earn-degrees-highest-rate-us
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/dec/01/prince-harry-compares-covid-vaccine-inequity-to-hiv-struggle
The Analyst : Thomas. You seem particularly triggered, can you tell me what happened?
Neo : I've had dreams that weren't just dreams. Am Icrazy?
The Analyst :We don't use that word here.
https://www.slashfilm.com/633637/kesha-who-once-had-sex-with-a-ghost-will-now-hunt-ghosts-for-discovery/
https://www.bustle.com/articles/46144-did-taylor-swift-copy-lana-del-rey-with-wildest-dreams-there-are-some-similarities-listen
Without You
Song by Lana Del Rey
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Everything I want, I have
Money, notoriety, and rivieras
I even think I found God
In the flashbulbs of the pretty cameras
Pretty cameras, pretty cameras
Am I glamorous?
Tell me, am I glamorous?
Hello? Hello?
C-can you hear me?
I can be your China doll, if you wanna see me fall
Boy, you're so dope, your love is deadly
Tell me life is beautiful
They all think I have it all
I've nothing without you
All my dreams and all the lights mean
Nothing without you
Summertime is nice and hot
And my life is sweet like vanilla is
Gold and silver-lined my heart
But burned into my brain are these stolen images
Stolen images, baby, stolen images
Can you picture it? Babe, that life we could've lived
Hello? Hello?
C-can you hear me?
I can be your China doll, if you like to see me fall
Boy, you're so dope, your love is deadly
Tell me life is beautiful
They all think I have it all
I've nothing without you
All my dreams and all the lights mean
Nothin' without you
We were two kids just tryin' to get out
Lived on the dark side of the American dream
We would dance all night, play our music loud
When we grew up, nothing was what it seemed
Hello? Hello?
C-can you hear me?
I can be your China doll, if you like to see me fall
Boy, you're so dope, your love is deadly
Tell me life is beautiful
They think that I have it all
I've nothing without you
All my dreams and all the lights mean
Nothing without you
Hello? Hello?
C-can you hear me?
I can be your China doll, if you like to see me fall
Boy, you're so dope, your love is deadly
Tell me life is beautiful
They think that I have it all
I've nothing without you
All my dreams and all the lights mean
Nothing without you
All my dreams and all the lights mean
Nothing, if I can't have you
https://ew.com/music/2019/08/29/lana-del-rey-americana-influences/
https://www.vulture.com/2020/01/taylor-swift-miss-americana-netflix-doc-meaning-and-analysis.html
https://www.newyorker.com/news/us-journal/the-changing-meaning-of-the-american-flag-under-trump
On growing up Italian-American, novelist Don DeLillo stated:
"It’s no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture. America was and is the immigrant's dream, and as the son of two immigrants I was attracted by the sense of possibility that had drawn my grandparents and parents." (from Conversations With Don DeLillo)[9]
The zeitgeist of this idealized period is captured in the Disneyland theme park's Main Street, U.S.A. section (which was inspired by both Walt Disney's hometown of Marceline, Missouri and Harper Goff's childhood home of Fort Collins, Colorado),[10] as well as the musical and movie The Music Man and Thornton Wilder's stage play Our Town.[5] Especially revered in nostalgic Americana are small-town institutions like the barber shop,[11] drug store, soda fountain and ice cream parlor;[12] some of these were eventually resurrected by mid-twentieth century nostalgia for the time period in businesses like the Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour chain, with its 1890s theme.[13]
Ethical standards Edit
Community pharmacists’ understanding of ethics, confidentiality, patient autonomy, trustworthiness and reliability are essential in community practice and must influence their decision making should an ethical dilemma arise.[1] In some countries, community pharmacists may be asked to compromise on their values and ethical issues may arise not only because of patient's or physician's request but may also because of their employers' intrusion.[2] Individual factors such as age, gender, work experience, and educational level and organizational factors such as the number of pharmacists in a pharmacy and location of pharmacy may affect the ethical perspectives of community pharmacists.[3]
The film opens in 1956 Massapequa, New York, with a 10-year-old Ron Kovic playing with his friends in a forest. On his Fourth of July birthday, he attends an Independence Day parade with his family and best friend Donna. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy's televised inaugural address inspires a teenage Ron to join the United States Marine Corps. After attending an impassioned lecture by two Marine recruiters visiting his high school, he enlists. His decision receives support from his mother, but upsets his father, a World War II veteran. Ron goes to his prom, and dances with Donna before leaving for basic training.
In October 1967, Ron is now a Marine sergeant on a reconnaissance mission in Vietnam, during his second tour of duty. He and his unit kill a number of Vietnamese villagers after mistaking them for enemy combatants. After encountering enemy fire, they flee the village and abandon its sole survivor, a crying baby. During the retreat, Ron accidentally kills Wilson, a young private in his platoon. He reports the action to his superior, who ignores the claim and advises him not to say anything else. In January 1968, Ron is critically wounded during a firefight, but is rescued by a fellow Marine. Paralyzed from the mid-chest down, he spends several months in recovery at the Bronx Veterans Hospital in New York. The hospital's conditions are poor; the doctors and nurses ignore patients, abuse drugs, and operate using old equipment. Against his doctors' requests, Ron desperately tries to walk again with the use of braces and crutches, only to damage his legs and confine himself permanently to a wheelchair.
In 1969, Ron returns home and turns to alcohol after feeling increasingly neglected and disillusioned. During an Independence Day parade, Ron is asked to give a speech, but is unable to finish after he hears a crying baby in the crowd and has a flashback to Vietnam. Ron visits Donna in Syracuse, New York, where the two reminisce. While attending a vigil for the victims of the Kent State shootings, they are separated when Donna and other protestors are taken away by police for demonstrating against the Vietnam War.
In Massapequa, a drunken Ron has a heated argument with his mother, and his father decides to send him to Villa Dulce (The Sweet Villa), a Mexican haven for wounded Vietnam veterans. He has his first sexual encounter with a prostitute, whom he falls for until he sees her with another customer. Ron befriends Charlie, another paraplegic, and the two decide to travel to another village after getting kicked out of a bar. After annoying their taxicab driver, they are stranded on the side of the road and argue with each other. They are picked up by a truck driver who takes them back to Villa Dulce.
Ron travels to Armstrong, Texas, where he discovers Wilson's tombstone. He then visits the fallen soldier's family in Georgia to confess his guilt. Wilson's widow Jamie expresses that she is unable to forgive Ron, while her parents are more sympathetic. In 1972, Ron joins the organization Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and travels to the Republican National Convention in Miami, Florida. As Richard Nixon is giving an acceptance speech for his presidential nomination, Ron expresses to a news reporter his hatred for the war and the government for abandoning the American people. His comments enrage Nixon supporters, and his interview is cut short when police attempt to remove and arrest him and other protestors. Ron and the veterans manage to break free from the officers, regroup, and charge the hall again, though not successfully. In 1976, Ron delivers a public address at the Democratic National Convention in New York City, following the publication of his autobiography.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/11/dr-oz-senate-run-should-be-aha-moment-on-oprahs-quackery.html