Earlier this week, Taylor Swift proved female pop stars can be support each other and be friends when she posted a photo of Lorde's handwritten lyrics to "Yellow Flicker Beat" to Instagram. She also stopped by Canadian talk show Tout Le Monde En Parle, where after discussing her single "Shake It Off," she gave her thoughts on Emma Watson's viral U.N. speech.
"I wish when I was 12 years old, I'd been able to watch a video of my favorite actress explaining in such an intellectual, beautiful, poignant way the definition of feminism," Swift said about the Harry Potter actress's speech.
She addressed her stance on feminism in another interview back in August, saying that her friend and GIRLS creator Lena Dunham helped clarify what the word means. She echoed those sentiments again in her Tout Le Monde En Parle interview.
"I would have understood it and earlier on in my life would have proudly claimed that I was a feminist, because I would have understood what the word means," Swift said. So many girls out there say, 'I'm not a feminist,' because they think it means something angry, or disgruntled, or complaining, or they picture rioting and picketing. It is not that at all. It simply means you believe women and men should have equal rights and opportunities."
She went on to talk about the problems she sees with how she and her peers are represented in the media and how it harms women.
"Females are kind of pinned up against each other," Swift explained. "For example, you'll never see online 'Vote for who has the better butt: this actor or this actor.' It's always this female singer or this female singer. It's every day [for me].... In order for us to have gender equality, we have to stop making it a girl fight, and we have to stop being so interested in seeing girls try and tear each other down. It has to be more about cheering each other on as women."
When the host asked for her opinion on the way Miley Cyrus and Britney Spears dress, she proved that she meant what she had said earlier about women not tearing each other down.
"I cheer on anybody who is living their life on their own terms, wearing what they want to wear and representing what they want to represent," she said. "I think that no other female artist should be able to tell me to wear less clothes, and I'm not going to tell any other female artist to wear more clothes."
Way to go T. Swift! Keep doing what you're doing, girl.
Watch the full interview below, and let us know what you think in the comments section!
