According to the women’s magazine Glamour, the booing of Taylor Swift at the Super Bowl felt “bigger than the game” itself. In the article, the author tries to explain how “Taylor Swift getting booed at the Super Bowl was even more chilling than you think.” And it’s all the fault of Donald Trump’s and his misogynistic ways.
This one is going to take a bit to unwrap.
“Since Donald Trump took office, there have been several times I felt chilled by the rapid increase in misogyny seeping in our culture. But watching Taylor Swift at Super Bowl LIX booed by a crowd of thousands on Sunday night was a new low,” began Stephanie McNeal, the magazine’s senior editor.
“Perhaps the moment would have felt less visceral if not for the fact that less than an hour earlier the crowd had exploded—this time with applause—to see Trump on that same screen. As an image of the president, stonefaced and standing in a salute, was shown to the crowd during Jon Batiste’s national anthem performance, the roar of approval and cheers was deafening (of course, there were those in the crowd who booed the president and cheered for Swift as well, but from my vantage point, it was clear what the overall sentiment was),” she continued.
“To me, the disparate reactions felt like a message. That the Super Bowl, one of the biggest cultural events in the country, has been reclaimed by Trump and the type of toxic masculinity he appears to be the beacon of. And he and his supporters seem to be living for it.” […]
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