Taylor Swift is known for many things: being interuppted by Kanye at award shows, leaving the gym looking like a supermodel, dating a wide variety of celebrity men, creatively announcing her new albums, and, of course, her circle of very famous friends.
How does she make so many celeb pals, though? Sure, many of them probably happen through mutual, well-known friends, but sometimes it’s as simple as messaging each other on Twitter, as was the case when she and Lena Dunham became pals.
All it took was Taylor Tweeting how much she loved Girls, hitting the ‘Follow’ button on Lena’s Twitter account and moments later, Lena direct messaged her: ‘Can we be friends please?’ And that, right there, is how famous people become friends with other famous people.
Famous or not though, her group of girlfriends has become Taylor’s main support group, particularly in lieu of a romantic relationship, which she says is not really likely to become a reality for her anytime soon ‘Having a boyfriend ‘isn’t really possible right now,’ she told The Guardian. ‘It just doesn’t seem like a possibility in the near future. It doesn’t ever work. What works is having incredible girlfriends who I can trust and tell anything.’
She also credits Lena with helping her understand the meaning of being a feminist: ‘As a teenager, I didn’t understand that saying you’re a feminist is just saying that you hope women and men will have equal rights and equal opportunities. What it seemed to me, the way it was phrased in culture, society, was that you hate men. And now, I think a lot of girls have had a feminist awakening because they understand what the word means. For so long it’s been made to seem like something where you’d picket against the opposite sex, whereas it’s not about that at all. Becoming friends with Lena – without her preaching to me, but just seeing why she believes what she believes, why she says what she says, why she stands for what she stands for – has made me realise that I’ve been taking a feminist stance without actually saying so.’
Can we draw a line under the whole definition of feminism now?
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.