But we can also drag Swift for being a respectable white woman that often performs purity (more whiteness) and constantly plays the victim card, using her white femme womanhood to navigate conflict in ways that avoid accountability or culpability. Especially when this conflict is her pinning the blame on West’s Black masculinity and assumed misogyny that is often read as more dangerous or stringent than white men’s misogyny.

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