How DID Taylor Swift Wind Up On This Magazine Cover?

"I immediately got annoyed, because why is Taylor on this cover? I asked that question, and many were quick to tell me that she sued a DJ who groped her, and she won. I know. I KNOW about that case and I am really glad she won but I ask again WHY IS TAYLOR ON THIS COVER?

I am not questioning the validity of Taylor’s experience or her story. I am not doing what Lena Dunham did to Aurora Perrineau. What I have a problem with is what Taylor is being positioned as the face of a movement by being placed on this cover, because she won a lawsuit"

~Awesomely Luvvie

There is an amazing section in this same Awesomely Luvvie article aimed at "disappointed white women"  --the white women who wrote to this author and expressed their disappointment over this black female author breaking solidarity (pause for sarcastic laughter) with all women...

WHEN
WHITE
WOMEN
HAVEN'T
SERIOUSLY
STEPPED UP

FOR
BLACK WOMEN

ONCE
IN
RECENT
MEMORY

As Luvvie says in the original article linked below, it is absolutely incredible that Tarana Burke is missing from this cover while Taylor Swift is on it.

Incredible. 

Tarana Burke

Tarana Burke was the originator of the #MeToo campaign. For 10 years or more she's stood up and taken aim at sexual harassment. And she did when she was alone sans millions of dollars and sans millions of fans to back her up

-- like Swift 

This movement against sexual harassment peaked because powerful white women in Hollywood-- most of whom are without much to lose as their careers have long since peaked -- spoke to a reporter doing an expose on Harvey Weinstein, who had a quiet, but well known reputation as a serial sexual harasser. 

Again, Burke who was not rich, white, or powerful stood alone and reached out to other women and created the #MeToo tag that created the initial flame that helped Weinstein story catch fire on social media, engulfing a bunch of men getting away with sexual blackmail for decades.

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND SEXUAL BLACKMAIL http://blackchickrocked.blogspot.com/2017/10/the-difference-between-sexual.html

Yet Tarana Burke was not on the cover of this magazine.

Lupita N'yongo wrote a major piece for a major newspaper, gave words to the experience of being sexually harassed and being unable to "just quit" or "just leave" without giving up your career and your dreams for your life. She detailed how she navigated getting out of Harvey Weinstein's clutches without pissing him off badly enough to trash her career with other movie makers. (<--the blackmail aspect of sexual harassment)  

And, Lupita is not on the cover either.

HARVEY WEINSTEIN'S ATTEMPT AT SEXUALLY BLACKMAIL WITH LUPITA NYONG'O

http://blackchickrocked.blogspot.com/2017/10/weinsteins-attempt-at-sexual-blackmail.html

The journalist who wrote the initial Harvey Weinstein expose that created this sexual harassment/sexual assault firestorm is reportedly Ronan Farrow.  

ronan farrow

His mother is actress Mia Farrow and his father is Woody Allen -- who was accused of molesting Ronan's then 7 year old sister among other things. Woody Allen wound up marrying his adopted sort-of step-daughter(?) that he was raising (?) with his then girlfriend Farrow.

Woody Allen says his 23-year relationship with Soon-Yi Previn worked because of their previous parent-child relationship. 

“I’m 35 years older, and somehow, through no fault of mine or hers, the dynamic worked,” the 79-year-old director told NPR in an interview published Wednesday. “I was paternal. She responded to someone who was paternal.”

https://pagesix.com/2015/07/30/woody-allen-soon-yi-responded-to-me-because-i-was-paternal/ 

It seems to me that Farrow comes by his bone marrow deep interest in stopping sexual predators honestly. He continues to speak out on behalf of his sister and against his father at movie premieres and such.  

By the way, the same NBC who claimed they didn't know what Matt Lauer was up to FOR YEARS, backed off the Weinstein story after assigning it to Farrow. He wound up having to take the Weinstein story elsewhere.

Tarana Burke

As the breaker of the initial Weinstein story, Farrow probably deserves Taylor Swift's place on this magazine cover too. 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ronan-farrow-on-how-the-harvey-weinstein-scandal-broke-open/

But let's say they only wanted women on the cover. That's fine. That means I'm back to asking why Tarana Burke isn't on the cover instead of Swift. 

My main point here is that it seriously torques me that Taylor Swift is on this cover at all. 

As I said before in a previous post, Swift, like most women have been conditioned to not respond mild sexual assault* --like a man putting his hand up her dress on your bare ass during a photo shoot. 

A lot of women have been conditioned to not react publicly to stuff like Matt Lauer givin a sex toy to a female co-worker as a Christmas gift and somehow communicating what he'd like to do to her with it.    

But Swift had tons of power in the moment she was assaulted. Swift is not Kesha. She has white fans legion enough to decimate anybody who might have challenged her if she had turned around and slapped some low-level flunky DJ. She's damn near got Beyonce-level power.

If Swift had smacked that man immediately instead of pretending a hand wasn't up the back of her dress in order to be "professional," Swift would have gotten the same support she got when she went to court in response to the lawsuit HER ATTACKER FILED because she reported him and got him fired.    

That's right. Her attacker filed the initial law suit, not Swift.  

While I know I have not responded immediately to sexual assault for the very same reasons Swift didn't**,  I also know that you do not get hero status for going to court, getting on the stand to tell your story without crying due to the humiliation....when firing back at an accuser that is 100x less powerful than yourself.  

 ** I BELIEVE TAYLOR SWIFT BUT...

http://blackchickrocked.blogspot.com/2017/08/i-believe-taylor-swift-but.html

You only get a loud congratulations when providence gives you a second chance to stand up for somebody beside yourself (getting him fired quietly)

And Swift already got that.

You don't get hero status on a magazine cover.

I'm also thinking somebody should tell folks at Time Magazine that they are actually allowed to have more than one black person in a group photo when they plan to use it for their magazine cover. 

Tarana Burke should have been in the photo along side Adama Iwu.

Read More. The section on "disappointed white women" due to lack of black female solidarity is NOT to be missed:
https://www.awesomelyluvvie.com/2017/12/time-person-of-year-taylor-swift.html

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(i'm going to try to call anything than involves sexual-unwanted touching as "sexual assault" if I don't use "sexual blackmail" from now on...cause...um.... if women in the U.S. were consistently 50% of the attorneys, governors, supreme court judges, and congress...that's exactly what it would be...legally speaking...every single time.)