Anonymous asked:
from a european swiftie whose second language is english, can somebody explain why did taylor call herself a childless cat lady, what does it mean, and why does it matter 😭
Hi! She signed off in that manner as a reference to something Republican VP nominee JD Vance said in a resurfaced interview from 2021.
At the time, he described the Democratic party as being run by “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.” (Source)
His implication was that people, particularly women, who are childless do not have a stake in the future of the country. As a result of not having children, these people aren’t invested in the prosperity of younger generations. And further that women who are childless are inherently miserable because they don’t have children.
Taylor, as a currently child free woman who owns three cats, obviously (and rightly) took offence to that insane insinuation and clapped back at it in her endorsement of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.
Hope that explains it! Your English is great!
