I am so tired of male musicians trying to bring Taylor Swift down. Neil Tennant from the Pet Shop Boys saying she doesn’t have a lasting pop hit. Damon Albarn from Blur/Gorillaz saying (incorrectly) that she doesn’t write her own songs. Who can forget Kanye West’s constant harrassment of her? And now Dave Grohl who wrongly states that she doesn’t play live. Hello, misognyy my old friend.

There is a huge double standard surrounding the entirety of Taylor Swift’s success. Male superstars are not attacked in the same way by their peers. Ed Sheeran, Bruno Mars – they’ve all written similar songs. But Taylor is fair game, it seems. People constantly try to undermine her success, which is, in fact, due to her work ethic. They undermine her song writing ability, which is incredibly nuanced. Both of these skills she has honed now have university programmes around the world solely dedicated to the study of them throughout her career.

Misogyny is rife in the industry. Male artists have muses. Taylor has exes. Men are romantic, Taylor is emotional. When she was younger, she was called a “prude” for not revealing too much skin for photoshoots. Now she is being “slut-shamed” for some of her Era’s Tour outfits. She was criticised for staying silent during the first Trump campaign. Now she’s told, like the Dixie Chicks were, to “shut up and sing”.

She’s stood toe to toe with the music industry over her master recordings. When she was sexually assaulted by a DJ she took him down in a long, four-year legal battle (seven people saw it and there was even a photo of him doing it). She is shown too much on tv when she is supporting her boyfriend’s football games (for the Super Bowl she was on screen for a total of 54 seconds). She has had horrendous sexual comments about her thrown around on the Pardon My Take sports podcast. And these are only a few examples of the constant struggle that she is up against, and which she is winning.

She has stood up for herself against a host of misognyny, and she’s still coming out at the top her game. As Swift herself has said: ““There’s a different vocabulary for men and women in the music industry… A man does something, it’s strategic. A woman does the same thing, it’s calculated. A man is allowed to react. A woman can only overreact.”

Whether or not you like her music is irrelevant. What we see here is a woman who is under constant attack, and who stands up for herself in an inspiring show of strength. I celebrate not only Taylor’s defiant spirit, but also her music. And all the others in the music industry who can’t handle her success?

Well, tough.