#this is completely separate from the safe space thing re Matty though

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I think I appreciate that she communicates directly to fans during shows the way she does (about many things, but pride month currently). It makes sense to me that she wouldn’t want to post much on social media, and a valid criticism of 2020 activism generally was how it became ~trendy~ to post about everything. I ran a social Justice social media page for a nonprofit at that time and it became very meaningless and soul sucking, especially when I was able to start living my activism in different ways in my real life and quit working for the nonprofit industrial complex. I haven’t been on anything other than tumblr in basically 2 years, and my activism is much different than it was before. Not that she’s necessarily avoiding posting for the same reasons as me, but I don’t think it’s okay to expect celebrities to put their every belief down in writing for public dissection in an increasingly hostile virtual world. And she should be able to choose how she uses social media without it being tied inherently to her politics. She has reach, and she is using that power to talk about it on stage to sold out stadium shows. And it seems likely that news/magazines will cover the gist of what she says. I also think there’s something to be said about her and her crowds safety. Posting something that can be instantly shared with anyone and that would enrage homophobic and transphobic potential mass shooters prior to announcing where her and 70k of her closest friends will be every night for months also seems like a fair safety concern. It’s just complicated!