Pop artist Taylor Swift edited the video for one of her new songs after fat positivity
activists
accused her of fatphobia over a scene with a bathroom
scale.
The scene from her song "Anti-Hero" shows the singer weighing herself on a
scale and looking at the display that reads "fat."
While the video and the song were intended to be a commentary on how the
wrong mindset can lead people into self-destructive habits, many on social
media were outraged with and offended by the scene.
"Taylor Swift’s music video, where she looks down at the scale where it says
'fat,' is a s****y way to describe her body image struggles. Fat people don’t
need to have it reiterated yet again that it’s everyone’s worst nightmare to
look like us," read one tweet that had more than 43k likes.
"The Taylor swift fat discourse is killing me. Ppl saying it’s not harmful are
*******ing stupid, just rotted. If my poor fat 13 year old self had sat down and
watched a skinny blonde woman stand on a scale and it say fat I would have
cried. If she’s fat what hope was there for me?" responded another
commenter.
"I feel like the fact that EVERY single person defending Taylor Swift is white
and thin themselves kinda reinforces the point lol nobody who has
experienced actual fatphobia is coming to her defense!!! Just the thin girls
who 'feel fat sometimes' and are now experts," read another critical tweet.
In order to appease the outraged crowd, the video was edited and the "fat"
display scene was taken out, although the overall scene remained. Variety
confirmed that the scene was excised from the music video on Apple Music,
and it was also cut from the video on YouTube.
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