Could Taylor Swift Have Written “F— the Patriarchy” a Decade Ago?

The feminist call to action is older than you think.

While “fuck the patriarchy” may have emerged as a slogan in activist circles by the mid-’90s, it was still a long way from reaching more mainstream exposure of the kind that might have caught the eye of a young Taylor Swift. But let’s fast-forward to 2009, when Swift was turning 20 and already had two albums under her belt. That year, in

, Anna Holmes wrote, “Fuck the patriarchy: With all this slut-shaming and victim-blaming, maybe it’s fuck the matriarchy.” Meanwhile, in a recap of an episode of, a blogger opined, “I’m generally a fan of ‘fuck the patriarchy’ messages, but it’s getting tired.”Even if, as Craighead asserts in her Gawker piece, “Swift herself did not enter her feminista era until 2014,” she still could have encountered these bloggy mentions of “fuck the patriarchy” and incorporated the phrase in her songwriting.

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