The year is 2014, you're rocking high-waisted shorts, combat boots, dip-dye hair and hating Taylor Swift is the new hip trend. There's no reason for you to hate her but everybody else does, so why not join the crowd? It sounds like a fool proof plan to twitter popularity, hate on Taylor, get a thousand retweets and solidify your twitter fame.

The problem with that is that Taylor Swift doesn't deserve most of the hate she receives. Sure, she's not a perfect person, no one is. In fact she might be a bit problematic, but to be referred to as "Satan's spawn" , "the Antichrist" or "the worst thing to happen to music" is unnecessary.

Taylor Swift has turned her love for music into one of the most lucrative careers in all of music history. The youngest person to win a Grammy for Album of the Year, Billboard's Woman of the Year (twice!!) and a multi-multi platinum selling artist, Taylor exemplifies success. Starting off as a country singer at the age of 16, she has managed to reinvent herself quite a few times, as well as blur the lines between pop music, country music, and as of late, electronic influences. Of course people complain, "where's the old taylor? I miss her country music."

Haven't you heard? The old Taylor is dead. Like countless successful artists before her, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Beyonce, Rihanna, Brittney Spears, with every new album comes a new era, a new sound, a new look, a new and improved version of who she once was.

I've recently realized that a lot of Taylor's hate is a result of internalized misogyny. Whether its Kanye West taking credit for her fame (as if she weren't receiving a prestigious award when he interrupted her) or the twitter-verse complaining about the subjects of her music, a woman's success is always undermined.

Taylor writes about love and relationships because it is what she's experienced. Perhaps the most "celebrities: they're just like you" thing about her is the fact that she, like all of us, has tried and failed in love. With over a handful of relationships, by age 27, she nears the American average. Not to mention, the fact she's as famous as she is, makes dating and maintaining relationships difficult.

When Ed Sheeran, John Mayer, Shawn Mendes, and Bruno Mars write about love and relationships, they are congratulated for their insightfulness and sensitivity. When Taylor does so, she's hated on for being whiny and too sensitive. Double standard? I very strongly think yes. Yet when she writes about partying and friendships she's told to write about what she knows since 22 and Shake It Off aren't as good as Love Story and All Too Well.

I think that as a society, we have begun to view women being emotional and sensitive as something negative we should look down upon. People like Taylor receive the butt of those complaints because of her role in the spotlight, as well as the jealousy from her fame and success.

Hating Taylor Swift stopped being cool once being a feminist started being cool. If you support the equal treatment of women as well as girl power and sticking together, you have to support Taylor Swift. Even if you don't like her music, stand up for her and the unnecessary hate she receives.