Increasingly political popstar Taylor Swift’s new film “Miss Americana” is a “feminist documentary disaster,” says conservative comedian and podcast host Steven Crowder. But rather than being annoyed with the recently “woke” Swift declaring various feminist talking points throughout the film, Crowder says he actually feels genuinely “sad” for the singer — because she seems to believe that her newly adopted worldview, “fed to her” by the Left, is going to create something positive for her, when all it’s going to do is “destroy.”
Crowder devoted some of his podcast “Louder with Crowder” Monday to providing his reaction to the new Swift-focused Netflix film and, as usual, didn’t candy-coat his criticism.
“The only way to redemption is through faith, family and freedom, and most of all truth — not lies based on the emoting of your perceived truth, ‘my truth.’ No, there is the truth,” Crowder says as an overview of his response to Swift’s new film (video below). “The idea that the Left feeds you, Taylor Swift, or people of your ilk, they’re not going to help. They don’t help, they don’t create. They only destroy.”
“I watched this film and I felt really sad for Taylor Swift,” says Crowder. “This is clearly someone who just discovered ‘woke’ ideology — but any kind of ideology — and assumes that nobody else has known about this. The fact is other people have looked into this, have studied this, have debated this for decades, and, Taylor Swift, you just didn’t care… So it really is kind of sad to see somebody who’s been so misinformed who now fancies themself the arbiter of truth and of women’s rights.”
“What bothered me: there were so many thoughtless answers that were stated by Taylor Swift in the absolute, which is really indicative of someone who is green and figuring out their worldview,” says Crowder, “which is somewhat scary because this person has an unbelievable sphere of influence.”
As the first example of his central point about the film, Crowder cues up a moment where Swift says, “I’m trying to be as educated as possible on how to respect people, on how to deprogram the misogyny in my own brain… Toss it out, reject it and resist it. Like, there is no such thing as a slut, there is no such thing as a b*tch….”
“Is there such a thing as an a**hole?” asks Crowder in response. “What about someone who has sex with a lot of different people for, I don’t know, money or to advance their career? … To say that it’s a figment of your imagination — have you ever been through a drive-thru?”
“It sounds really introspective — ‘there’s no such thing as a slut, there’s no such thing as a b*tch’ — but we don’t apply that to men,” he added, “because we also saw in this film where they refer to men as, I don’t if she did, as pricks or as a**holes or rubes. And by the way, I accept that some guys are and some women are.” That doesn’t mean that “defines them in their entirety,” notes Crowder, it’s just acknowledging the reality that people can act badly.
Video below via “Louder with Crowder“: