Ruby Rose Slams ‘Incredibly Stupid’ Criticism of Taylor Swift’s ‘Trad Wife’ Lyrics on ‘Showgirl’: ‘Stop It’

The captious effect to Taylor Swift‘s caller album, The Life of a Showgirl, has been each across the board, but there’s 1 conception of the sermon that Ruby Rose — a longtime friend of the popular star’s — isn’t lasting for.

In a bid of posts connected Threads connected Monday (Oct. 13), the histrion deed backmost astatine claims that Swift is pushing a socially blimpish communicative with her lyrics astir matrimony and wanting to commencement a household connected Showgirl. “As idiosyncratic who has spent galore nights discussing the world, societal injustice and life, with The Show Girl herself,” Rose began, noting that she refuses “to accidental [Swift’s] sanction successful the aforesaid condemnation arsenic the hatred group, Wackadoodles,” seemingly referring to MAGA Republicans.

“Given her public position against Trump, and his against her,” Rose continued of the 14-time Grammy winner. “If you are falling for the propaganda ‘Trad wife’ ‘X,y,z’ claims, you are astir decidedly walking into the biggest antheral made, rage bait, achromatic hole. Stop it.”

According to Merriam-Webster, the Internet-coined word tradwife — “trad” meaning “traditional” — refers to a “married pistillate who embraces accepted sex roles and values.” It’s often applied to young women who take to beryllium homemakers, and it’s “closely associated with a 2020s societal media inclination wide viewed arsenic ultraconservative.”

Swift is surely a acold outcry from this explanation of a alleged tradwife. The vocalist has spent the past 20 years gathering up 1 of the astir palmy euphony careers of each time, and she lone precocious got engaged astatine the property of 35 to fiancé Travis Kelce.

On Showgirl, however, Swift does astatine times sing astir wanting to get joined and person children. “When I said I don’t judge successful marriage, that was a lie,” she croons connected “Eldest Daughter,” portion “Wi$h Li$t” finds her gushing astir however she wants to “have a mates kids, got the full artifact looking similar you … got maine drеaming ’bout a driveway with a hoops hoop.”

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