@emilylenkeit: Update: I’m done arguing with insane people in the comments. None of the die-hards have made anything close to a good point and it’s honestly disturbing how violently you are reacting to an extremely mild critique. Look inward instead of commenting something insulting or trying to send someone else to attack me cause it will just end in you getting blocked.
the travesty of ophelia is that the men in her life manipulated and used her to the point of madness. she had no agency or free will in a patriarchal society. the message isn’t that she needed a man to save her. she needed men to leave her alone😭😭
2025-10-04 22:19:17
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victoria vega! :
Mind you she called herself our English teacher 😜😜😜
2025-10-04 05:38:11
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Shan :
Maybe she thought Ophelia girl bossed too close to the sun xxx
2025-10-04 18:18:23
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mdga :
she flattened Ophelia's character, I feel so disappointed as a swiftie
2025-10-04 15:06:04
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jlj71090dance :
mind you, she “knows aristotle”
2025-10-04 17:35:47
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Alice :
in the film she talks about how men kept lying, gaslighting and manipulating Ophelia to the point of madness, she meant that by Travis being truthful and kind it saved her mind from madness. And as a girl in love, have you considered it is okay to reimagine the story in a "what if she met an actual kind man" once you meet someone that makes you feel like that. Feminism doesn't have to exclude love and other feelings from women.
2025-10-04 19:55:25
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NattyP :
Are you ok?
2025-10-06 04:20:41
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Sam :
i’m going to be honest this is how i’ve always felt about Love Story. lol. that song was written by a girl that had never read or at least digested Romeo and Juliet, it’s not remotely a love story it’s a tragedy or maybe an ironic comedy.
2025-10-04 17:23:55
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damnnnn_gina 🍉 :
Taylor said she wanted to flip the Shakespeare tragedy and give it a happy ending…. But Shakespeare has comedies with happy endings. So why not use one of those characters? 😭 😫
2025-10-04 15:16:50
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mc :
I say this with a lot of love, but if girlie actually wanted to get the literature degree she likes to pretend she has, she could do it! She’s a billionaire—I’m sure many schools would be happy to have her.
2025-10-04 11:50:14
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cozyemeralds ☕️🍃🏹 :
What Taylor did to Ophelia is like what emerald fennell did to wuthering heights
2025-10-04 20:28:34
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Abby :
She does explain it differently in the movie.
2025-10-04 07:24:27
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bel :
I truly think that Taylor herself, in her writing- and the fact her fans think she's a lyric genius, is a PEAK example of the literacy crisis we are in rn. her lyrics have never been impressive, she struggles to convey complex topics and thoughts- and she very clearly has never read Hamlet
2025-10-04 17:27:27
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dilly 🧿 :
thank you i was feeling so gaslit 😭
2025-10-04 05:23:45
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Storm_inamartiniglass :
yeah this is a problem with the interpretation, not the song - Taylor is well aware of this and wrote this song to seem like she's talking about Travis on purpose. the whole album is satirical and this is the first clue. You can choose to believe that or not, I don't really care, and I doubt Taylor does either, but it's much more fun to think about it that way whether I'm right or not so I choose fun haha
2025-10-06 22:32:16
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Alexis B. :
I think this is the point. she made this album as satire and the sampled songs give meaning through their lyrics. she told us she would write “white noise” in tortured poets
2025-10-04 12:17:09
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