The sale of Taylor Swift's music catalog is a reminder 'that, far too often, behind powerful women are men taking ownership of those women's work' | DCampoamor for CNNopinion
Danielle Campoamor is an editor at Romper and a columnist for Bustle. She received an award from Planned Parenthood for media excellence. The views expressed here are solely hers. View more opinions on CNN.
It's easy to argue that, in 2019, women are more powerful than they've ever been in United States history. A record 117 women won office in the 2018 midterms. A record number of women are vying for the presidency in 2020. The youngest billionaire in history is a woman . The number of women CEOs in Fortune 500 companies hit a record high.
Danielle CampoamorWe face a seemingly never-ending onslaught of examples that, in the midst of that fight, women are perceived as rude, angry, manipulative, or petty. And we cannot deny that, far too often, behind these powerful women are men... taking ownership of those women's work. Over the weekend, Taylor Swift learned her six-album music catalog was sold to a company owned by music manager Scooter Braun, who Swift alleges has been bullying her for years.
Taylor Swift outraged over her music catalog sale 01:58In a country whose critics notoriously turn their noses up at music geared toward teen girls and young women, like Swift's, it appears to be painfully difficult for many to resist the urge to label what's happening to Swift as frivolous drama. But this is a powerful woman losing the rights to what she created, to a man she claims attempted to control and hurt her -- an outcome we've seen play out before.
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