Here's Why I Don't Think We Should Believe The Reports About Taylor Swift And Blake Lively's Friendship Amid The Justin Baldoni Legal Battle

Note: This station is an Op-Ed and shares the author's idiosyncratic views.

If you've vaguely been keeping up with the ongoing ineligible saga betwixt Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, past you've apt heard Taylor Swift's sanction being tossed around.

Last year, Blake accused the It Ends With Us manager and prima of intersexual harassment and retaliation. He past countersued and alleged that Blake had, among different things, utilized the power of radical similar Taylor to effort to exert power implicit the movie, with the Blake referring to the vocalist arsenic a "dragon" to her "Khaleesi" implicit substance message. Justin's $400 cardinal suit against Blake has since been thrown out.

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Still, a enactment of "sources" has been telling a communicative of the decade-long relationship betwixt the 2 disintegrating. Back successful May, a source said that their relationship had "halted" arsenic "Taylor wants nary portion successful this drama." This weekend, a source told People, "Taylor and Blake aren't speaking."

Here's the thing: I deliberation there's a anticipation it's each bullshit.

I deliberation it's worthy considering that Justin's squad has been called retired by the justice connected their case for evoking Taylor before. When Justin's lawyer tried to assertion that an unspecified root had informed him that Blake had threatened to merchandise texts betwixt herself and Taylor if she didn't enactment her, the justice struck it from the grounds and said, "The sole intent of the Letter is to 'promote nationalist scandal' by advancing inflammatory accusations, connected accusation and belief, against Lively and her counsel...It transparently invites a property uproar by suggesting that Lively and her counsel attempted to 'extort' a well-known celebrity."

We cognize that evoking Taylor was apt considered arsenic portion of Justin's PR strategy from astatine slightest past August. Blake's lawsuit provides a "Scenario Planning Document" created by Justin's PR squad "should [Ms. Lively] and her squad marque her grievances public." It suggests that Justin's squad should "also research planting stories astir the weaponization of feminism and however radical successful BL’s ellipse similar Taylor Swift, person been accused of utilizing these tactics to ‘bully’ into getting what they want.” Justin's team has said that they created the papers due to the fact that they believed Blake and Ryan Reynolds were taking "extreme measures" to "undermine" Justin.

We besides cognize that Justin's squad astir apt had a gathering with astatine slightest 1 contributor to assorted tabloids who, according to messages from Justin's PR squad that look successful Blake's lawsuit, "hates Blake" and “will bash thing for [Justin's team]." A subordinate of Justin's squad besides expressed fear that Blake would "activate" Taylor's fans against Justin, according to tribunal documents.

Now, Justin's squad has denied orchestrating a smear run against Blake. But I bash deliberation it's just to question the validity of stories that look to privation to weaponize the Swifties against Blake. These stories could easy service 2 extremity goals: 1) Make Blake the atrocious feline successful the tribunal of nationalist opinion, and, 2) Distract from ongoing quality from the tribunal lawsuit that doesn't precisely overgarment Justin successful a large light.

You mightiness subsequently ask, Well, wherefore hasn't Taylor travel to Blake's defense? Why haven't they adjacent been seen successful public? To that, I'd accidental that this is an ongoing ineligible case. Given that Justin's squad are fundamentally arguing that Blake uses Taylor to strongarm radical into getting her way, it wouldn't beryllium a great look for either 1 of them to marque a large nationalist amusement of support.

None of this is adjacent getting into the information that this isn't immoderate petty "drama." Real home unit organizations person argued that this lawsuit could person affected however we litigate and speech astir intersexual harassment. Remember, underneath each of the sound is simply a documented allegation of intersexual harassment. This is existent careless of whether oregon not idiosyncratic made a cringe remark astir an aged HBO show. So erstwhile you remark astir however you can't beryllium fucked to perceive astir this anymore, retrieve that each the wealth and privilege successful the satellite could allegedly not halt idiosyncratic from being smeared for raising a workplace complaint. If Taylor has breached up with Blake implicit the "drama," past what does that accidental astir her?

In short: Maybe there's much going connected than what the sources say!