in his arms
And suddenly, Benjamin Button was back in the news. Not Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s hero, played on screen by Brad Pitt in 2008, but Taylor Swift’s cat. On September 10, the world star took a stand in favor of Kamala Harris, the Democratic candidate for the American presidential election, at the end of the debate organized on ABC, provoking the wrath of Donald Trump, who posted “I HATE Taylor Swift!” the following Sunday. He then appeared on Instagram with his rag doll, a species native to the United States, signing his post “Taylor Swift, the cat lady without children” (“The childless cat lady”). Without even naming him, the 34-year-old artist with 284 million followers responds to JD Vance, the Republican candidate’s running mate. In a 2021 video, which resurfaced in July, he used this spinster stereotype to refer to Democrats, including Kamala Harris, whom he considered “unhappy in their lives”.
Favorite of the fast ones
Benjamin Button had already had his moment of glory in 2023: wrapped boa-style around the singer’s neck, he appeared on one of the magazine’s covers. Time when her mistress was crowned “personality of the year.” The bushy-furred, blue-eyed cat is a favorite of Swifties, fans of the artist, who gave him his own page on Swiftipedia, a site dedicated to the Pennsylvania native. Taylor Swift is crazy about her three cats, which she shows off in all their glory on her social media, often with the hashtag #catlady, and sometimes includes in her music videos. The rag doll is the youngest of them. She adopted him in 2019 after meeting him on the set of her song. ME!, where the kitten was going to make an appearance.
All claws out
Taylor Swift is not the first to denounce JD Vance’s comments, but she does so with a keen sense of communication. The country music star transforms her cat, an animal once associated with paganism and witchcraft, into a symbol. Like certain American suffragettes who re-appropriated it at the beginning of the 20th century,my century, the figure of the cat used by anti-women’s vote propaganda, the thirty-something woman takes a step back to embody the free and autonomous woman, without offending grumpy people. “I learned and now it’s time to take the tape off my mouth” She said in Miss America, a documentary aired on Netflix in 2020.
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