"The biggest news of the season is obviously the engagement of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. Are you sick of hearing about it? Too bad! I have opinions! People are talking about what trends Taylor is setting with her ginormous engagement ring-as if the only thing preventing a normal human from wearing a five million dollar rock is because a celebrity hadn't suggested it yet. It's the Kris Jenner facelift of jewelry-pretty on Instagram, but yikes out in the real world."
"The conservative manosphere is excited about the engagement because they think Taylor will stop supporting Democrats for political office once she settles down and has babies. This just shows how much they don't talk to women, because every mom I know (myself included) has only become more rabidly leftist with every passing day of existence in a society that treats children and families the way that it does ours."
Celebrity gossip is framed as art through a playful professor persona. Taylor Swift's engagement to Travis Kelce is presented as the season's biggest news and as a driver of jewelry trends. Celebrity endorsement is critiqued for normalizing extravagant pieces that function on Instagram but falter in everyday life. Conservative manosphere reactions expecting Swift to shift politically after marriage are ridiculed and countered with the claim that many mothers grow more politically progressive. Gendered assumptions about name changes are criticized. Jordan Hudson's trademark filing for 'gold digger' to sell jewelry and keychains raises questions about cultural commodification.
Read at Portland Mercury
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