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According to Godwin's law, if an online discussion goes on long enough, sooner or later someone will compare someone or something to Hitler or Nazism. Well, leading feminist writer, Camille Paglia, has bypassed the discussion part and labelled Taylor Swift an 'obnoxious Nazi Barbie'. But it's such a laughable rant that we're sure there won't be any bad blood between the two and that Swift will shake it off without a second thought.
Paglia wrote her comments in an essay for The Hollywood Reporter in which she criticises Swift's brand of 'girl squad' feminism, and portrays her as elitist. She later adds that Swift is "a scary flashback to the fascist blondes who ruled the social scene during my youth".
Elsewhere, Paglia writes, "In our wide-open modern era of independent careers, girl squads can help women advance if they avoid presenting a silly, regressive public image – as in the tittering, tongues-out mugging of Swift's bear-hugging posse.
"Swift herself should retire that obnoxious Nazi Barbie routine of wheeling out friends and celebrities as performance props, an exhibitionistic overkill that Lara Marie Schoenhals brilliantly parodied in her scathing viral video 'Please Welcome to the Stage'."
Paglia has form for criticising Swift. She wrote for The Hollywood Reporter in 2012: "There’s Taylor Swift, America’s latest sweetheart, beaming beatifically in all her winsome 1950s glory from the cover of Parade magazine in the Thanksgiving weekend newspapers.
"In TV interviews, Swift affects a 'golly, gee whiz' persona of cultivated blandness and self-deprecation, which is completely at odds with her shrewd glam dress sense.
"Her themes are mainly complaints about boyfriends, faceless louts who blur in her mind as well as ours. Swift’s meandering, snippy songs make 16-year-old Lesley Gore’s 1963 hit 'It’s My Party (And I’ll Cry if I Want to)' seem like a towering masterpiece of social commentary, psychological drama and shapely concision."
