Taylor Swift has opened up bout her sexuality and dating history in prologue for her upcoming album, 1989 (Taylor’s Version).
The American singer had remained silent for years over conspiracy theories that she had a romantic relationship with her former best friend, Karlie Kloss.
In her prologue, the singer, 33, called out the public for sexualizing her female friendships.
Looking back at her life at 24, the 12-time Grammy winner explained she was desperate to ‘silence’ the voices shaming her for ‘dating like a normal young woman.’
After years of becoming a ‘target of’ relentless ‘slut shaming’ and enduring endless jokes about the ‘amount of boyfriends’ she had, Swift said being painted as a ‘boy crazy psychopath’ was ‘really starting to hurt.’
‘It became clear to me that for me there was no such thing as casual dating, or even having a male friend who you platonically hang out with,’ she wrote.
The Cardigan hitmaker continued: ”If I was seen with him, it was assumed I was sleeping with him. And so, I swore off hanging out with guys. Dating, flirting, or anything that could be weaponized against me by a culture that claimed to believe in liberating women but consistently treated me with the harsh moral codes of the Victorian era.’
As a self-proclaimed ‘consummate optimist,’ she assumed that if she ‘simply changed’ her behavior it would ‘fix’ the narrative.
