{"id":1706033,"date":"2022-10-21T14:32:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T18:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1706033"},"modified":"2022-10-21T14:33:40","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T18:33:40","slug":"taylor-swift-holds-her-pen-like-an-absolute-psycho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taylor-swift-holds-her-pen-like-an-absolute-psycho\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Holds Her Pen Like An Absolute Psycho"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftaylor-swift-holds-her-pen-like-an-absolute-psycho%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1706033&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>I am once again here to proclaim with all the energy of Bobby Newport that I\u2019m a fan of Taylor Swift, and I\u2019m not ashamed to admit it.<\/p>\n<p>But I\u2019m also here to point out that, like the millions of other people who have already watched it in the few hours since its release, I\u2019ve seen her new music video for \u201cAnti-Hero.\u201d And I really can\u2019t get over how Taylor Swift holds her pen.<\/p>\n<p>As \u201cIt must be exhausting always rooting for the anti-hero\u201d lyrics consume the melody \u2014 which is kind of a reverby jam, by the way \u2014 the video depicts a dual-role Swift as a student of herself. A chaotic, party-ready Swift gives a blackboard lesson to a second retro Swift, who\u2019s contrasted in an antiquated houndstooth sweater, as the latter takes notes. <\/p>\n<p>I have a few questions. First, since Swift\u2019s perpetual takeaway is that \u201ceveryone will betray you\u201d \u2014 the message scrawled across the chalkboard, which hearkens back to \u201cBad Blood,\u201d the whole \u201cReputation\u201d era, and even \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yCMqcFAigRg&#038;ab_channel=TaylorSwiftVEVO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Picture to Burn<\/a>\u201d \u2014 why doesn\u2019t she start surrounding herself with better friends (or maybe just <em>be<\/em> a better friend)? <\/p>\n<p>But second, and somehow far more importantly, if you\u2019re going to feature yourself writing in a music video scene, how can you not break yourself of your serial killer tendencies and learn how to hold a pen properly? Who let this girl do this?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a real \u201cRocky II\u201d moment, except instead of illiteracy preventing her from reading cue cards, the music video exposes that no matter how well she can hold a high note, Taylor Swift can\u2019t hold a basic writing instrument. <\/p>\n<p>It isn\u2019t as though Swift is uneducated. Despite her musical ambitions picking up in her early and mid-teens, she attended a traditional high school for two years before switching to homeschooling and even graduating a year early. And though she never attended college, thanks to New York University bestowing an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportskeeda.com\/pop-culture\/where-taylor-swift-graduate-from-college-education-explored-popstar-receives-honorary-doctorate-nyu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">honorary doctorate<\/a> on Swift this spring, the 32-year-old Swift is now about on pace with Her Highness Dr. First Lady Jill Biden.<\/p>\n<p>So apparently an inability to hold a pen didn\u2019t hold Swift back intellectually, but some kids aren\u2019t so fortunate. In fact, senior pediatric doctors have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/children-are-joining-school-unable-to-grip-pencils-because-of-technology-2018-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sounded the alarm<\/a> on the pencil-grip problem because kids today are having a hard time developing finger dexterity as a result of their constant use of technology over traditional penmanship \u2014 which has undoubtedly worsened since teachers unions pushed to keep schoolchildren in a state of \u201cvirtual\u201d everything under the guise of the \u201cCovid emergency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, The Guardian told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2018\/feb\/25\/children-struggle-to-hold-pencils-due-to-too-much-tech-doctors-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">story<\/a> of a 6-year-old boy named Patrick who was in occupational therapy to help overcome his tech-induced handicap so he could hold a pencil effectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn retrospect, I see that I gave Patrick technology to play with, to the virtual exclusion of the more traditional toys,\u201d his mother Laura said. \u201cWhen he got to school, they contacted me with their concerns: he was gripping<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How about instead of &#8216;f-cking the patriarchy&#8217; we learn how to hold a writing utensil, mmmk?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":994,"featured_media":1706036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1706033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/994"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1706033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1706036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1706033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1706033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1706033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}