A lot of us absolutely "bat an eye" when men do this. I don't think 22/18 is as bad as what the men you list did but I am not particularly persuaded by the argument that we should give a woman a pass for doing exploitative things men have been doing forever. It also think it's interesting you assume Taylor was "inexperienced and innocent" at 22 (when she'd been an international pop star for 8 years) but that a teenage Kennedy must have "had many girls" at 17. First of all, even if the teenager was very sexually experienced, does that make it okay? If a teenage girl at 17 had a lot of sexual experiences, and then dated a famous musician in his 20s, would you think "oh, makes sense, she's so experienced"? I wouldn't, it would trouble me. And second, I think you imputing the quality of innocence to the woman because of stereotypes about women, and the quality of knowledge/control to the teenage boy because of stereotypes about men. All so you can ignore the truth which is that she was more powerful than he was in that relationship, and he was not yet a man. |
DP. Understand what you’re saying but I think you’re making the Kennedy boy seem a bit doe eyed. When I was 23, a family friend I knew was absolutely enamored with me and tried to pursue me. He is four years younger than I am. I was dating someone else, but I remember thinking about the age gap and not being too concerned about it. I was more concerned that I was more mature than he was and would be looking for something more serious than I was about corrupting him. Makes it sound like this Kennedy boy was 12! I was a total emotional idiot at 22. Not much more mature than I was at 18 |
Well said. +1 Creepy how that poster was excusing T's behavior. |
No, she wasn’t. They dated the summer of 2012. She was born in December 1989 and he was born in July 1994. He would’ve been turning 18 that summer, she didn’t turn 23 until December after they had broken up. |
Who cares about a perfectly legal relationship that happened well over a decade ago. You really need some real life problems. |
+1 And let us not forget that Taylor bought a $5M house to be near the Kennedys. lol Something is not right with that girl. |
Are you sure you're ok? |
What is creepy is people trying to make this sound worse than it was… “He was 17!” Actually he turned 18. “She was 23!” No she wasn’t. They had a broken up months before she turned 23. You have to exaggerate the fact, so it sounds worse cause it’s really not that bad. This happened in 2012. But stay mad. |
I like how you consolidated their relationship AND her psychotic creepy ass buying a house next to his family’s into a perfect window of the couple months when he was 18 years old and she was 22. You Swifties are legitimately batshit. |
| Swift was a grown ass woman chasing around a high school BOY. |
It proves what a fake charade this Kelce thing is. She’s repelled every pretty boy she’s ever really wanted, so now at her advanced age she has to settle for this ugly thirsty buffoon. Slumming it. Their wedding will be “viral” and forced down everyone’s throats for a day and then nobody will care. There’s nothing romantic or aspirational about being obnoxious, thirsty for attention middle aged people getting married. If she could have lured Harry Styles down the aisle, sure, aspiration. Travis Kelce? LMAO. No just no. |
| LOL at thinking 22 makes you a "grown ass" anything, male or female. |
Tell me how I’m wrong. Was Taylor not born in December 1989, was he not born July 1994? Did they not date summer of 2012? She was not 23. I’m not a Swifty I just like to deal in facts. If it helps you sleep at night to think that she was 23 and he was 17 or she was 24 and he was 16 do so. I love that Taylor is living rent free in your head and you’re fretting over this relationship that ended 14 years ago. |
This is what Taylor has built her empire on. Giving women a pass for doing exploitative things in the name of “equality.” It isn’t equality if you are still squashing other people. |
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She has Peter Pan Syndrome, like most child stars. See also Michael Jackson.
She's not an erudite and educated grown woman, she's a creepy perpetual teenager stuck in the 9th grade. |