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Taylor Swift choosing Dakota Johnson to star in her music video while Dakota has a movie out—Verity, a Colleen Hoover book adaptation—makes Taylor’s silence during the It Ends With Us promotion all the more noticeable.
Taylor may have lent Blake Lively her song for the It Ends With Us trailer, but she chose to feature Dakota in an entire music video. And it made me realize something: when Taylor wants to support her friends, she really isn’t shy about making it known. She goes all in, and there’s usually no ambiguity about it.

Courtesy of AssholeMedia Jessie for the clip

“Don’t let anyone tell you no.”

Ideally, this would be sound advice to empower young girls (and children in general) to work hard, stay determined, and believe in themselves in the face of adversity and challenges.

However, as we’ve all seen by now, when paired with narcissism, unmitigated entitlement, and lack of empathy, care, and regard for others, this can turn into an excuse to trample all over the boundary and dignity of other people in the name of “empowerment.”

And when she says she wants her daughter to be the “first to,” I guess Blake Lively can take the credit for being the first to (or at least the first whose actions have been so extensively exposed): weaponize her and her husband’s power, privilege, and influence to take over someone else’s film, to turn the cast against him, to relegate him to the basement at his own premiere, to market a serious DV film as a fun summer rom-com, to promo her alcohol and haircare brand in a tone-deaf way alongside said DV film, to speak flippantly and dismissively of survivors, to make up allegations of SH in an attempt to blame all the self-inflicted and well-deserved backlash on the director she extorted and then ostracized, to weaponize survivor advocacy groups, and to hijack the #MeToo movement, including Victoria Burke’s 47.1 bill—all as part of her attempted (but epically failed) redemption tour. 

Blake Lively isn’t the first narcissist, but I suppose she might be the first to do all those things with the end result of blowing up her own reputation even more.

Congrats on learning from your own mom how to not take “No” for an answer!

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Related Posts:

Dear Blake Lively, the call is coming from inside your own house by u/same-difference-ave

Terrorist Blake Lively hypocritically lecturing the public about accepting the word “No” by u/Serenity413

Blake Lively preaches about teaching boys to accept 'no', while her own daughter is intimately learning that saying 'no' is up for discussion — and retractable under pressure by u/kastanienn

To see what I modified, I've included a list of the original film titles and taglines below.

1. Green Lantern: No evil shall escape my sight
2. The Proposal: Here comes the bribe…
3. Mayday: A friendship with major red flags
4. The Rhythm Section: Witness the birth of an assassin
5. The Town: Welcome to the bank robbery capital of America
6. A Simple Favor: Keep your friends close and your secrets closer
7. Another Simple Favor: Every friendship has its twists
8. Safe House: No one is safe
9. Croods: New Age: The future ain’t what it used to be
10. The Shallows: Plan your getaway | What was once in the deep is now in the shallows
11. If: A story you have to believe to see
12. The Hitman’s Bodyguard: It’s not the size that matters… It’s how you use it
13. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Laugh. Cry. Share the pants.
14. The Private Lives of Pippa Lee: She lived many lives—except her own
15. Waiting…: What happens in the kitchen ends up on the plate
16. The Amityville Horror: What happened over the next 28 days has never been explained.
17. Deadpool: Wait ‘til you get a load of me

Blake Lively and her sociopathic arsonist husband Ryan Reynolds

1: Texts between Sanford Panitch and Ange Giannetti

2: Ange Giannetti’s deposition

3: Texts between Jamey Heath and Mitz Toskovic

4: Popcorned Planet Interview with Adam Mondschein

5: Texts between Jen Abel and Jameela Jamil