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The point is that the scapegoat is usually female. Why is Taylor Swift being singled out for her private jet use? Is it because her use is assumed to be less legitimate because she's a woman?

A quick Internet search brought up this:

Among the most polluting jets covered by the list was a Boeing 767 wide-body aircraft used by the Rolling Stones. It emitted an estimated 5,046 tonnes of CO2, the equivalent of someone taking 1,763 return flights from London to New York City in economy class.

Aircraft owned by Lawrence Stroll, the billionaire owner of the Aston Martin Formula One team, recorded a combined 1,512 flights since the start of 2022. His private aircraft, including two helicopters, also made the most journeys of 15 minutes or less.

Thirty-nine jets linked to 30 Russian oligarchs – including Roman Abramovich, Leonid Mikhelson and the recently deceased leader of the Wagner group, Yevgeny Prigozhin – were responsible for 30,701 tonnes of CO2 (equivalent to the total average carbon footprint of around 1,000 Russians).

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So, attacking billionaires who are abusing private jets is totally fair, in general, but always singing out the woman who does so is misogynistic.

Where are the Rolling Stones or Laurence Stroll memes?

yep! the memes worked over a year ago. see my sources below. my concern is that the memes are spiking now when the joke has already made a difference. again, this is all valid criticism in a vacuum! but i encourage folks to consider how much the MAGA crowd has latched onto Swift as their “female devil.”

24 flights per month at the beginning of 2022

12(ish) flights per month at the beginning of 2023 while she kicked off her massive eras tour

All billionaires are evil. That includes all female billionaires

This is the issue, not criticising Swift in general.

OP misses the mark in my eyes, not because the misogyny isn't fuelling the recent wave of criticism from the right (who couldn't give two fucks about emissions since they don't believe in climate change), but because it lumps all criticism of Swift together, valid or not, almost feeling like it's pro-Swift rather than being anti-misogyny, and fuck being pro Swift, and excusing any of her actions (downsizing from two jets to one isn't worthy of any praise nor defence, it's not like she can use both at once, and is still flying just as much).

You can (and should) call out misogynists without defending the billionaire.

I always criticized her and every other ultra wealthy PoS. Celebrity culture needs to die off as it is anyway

• I'm quite confident that, more often than not, women face greater challenges than men.

• This post is fucking weird.

She is getting this attention because some very powerful people, who benefit from producing a lot of greenhouse gases, would prefer that everyone be mad at T Swift instead of them.

honestly, for me personally? the fact a “washed up classic rock band,” as you put it, is outputting more CO2 than an actually-relevant Swift? that’s a huge difference and reason to be all the more critical of The Rolling Stones. like what are they even doing all that for lol.

i criticize both and defend neither.

I only know Taylor Swift from Americans talking about her. Presumably she's "the biggest in the world" just like the Superbowl is the biggest TV or sports event in the world, which it isn't.

I just don't understand this. In any reasonable conversation, these two things have nothing to do with each other.

Who is reading Swift memes and thinking "Man, I was going to vote, but seeing how much she jets around has really made me not want to anymore."

holy shit homie this means a lot thank you 🫶

this is such a great question, and one I am interested in myself.

you have to consider engagement and reach. let’s look at the numbers:

• raw ascii size of the meme text is ~625 bytes
• size of the image: 787 KB

so your estimate of “millions of times” is already not quite accurate. its just a little more than 1000x.

from experience on the internet, i know that people are more likely to read something if it looks pretty. advertisers and marketers are aware of this too.

so am i getting 1000x more reach than if i just did a text post? well, without empirical evidence, my guess is actually probably, or at least in that ballpark. especially considering the context that this is c/196 and no one really wants to read text posts on here :)

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bro is comparing some clothes to the imprisonment and execution of millions of people 💀