Swifties really like a good conspiracy theory. We all know this. Taylor Swift has qualified her fanbase to overanalyze at any time minuscule depth about her lifestyle to hunt for Easter eggs and lyrical references. And all that sleuthing has provided rise to a really niche but dedicated subset of the Swiftie fandom: Gaylors.

Gaylors think that Swift has been hiding passionate associations with well known gals from the public for yrs, making use of her high-profile boyfriends merely as a smokescreen. They’ve used a long time finding aside unique lyrics and zooming in on paparazzi photos seeking for clues that Swift may have dated women of all ages. The most well-known Gaylor topics have been Swift’s previous buddy Karlie Kloss, and her other estranged bestie Dianna Agron.

Swift has remained peaceful on this sector of her fandom for years, but last but not least addressed her irritation with the Gaylor theories in the prologue to 1989 (Taylor’s Variation). She wrote about her decision to minimize issues off with gentlemen in the course of her 1989 era.

“It turned very clear to me that for me there was no these types of issue as casual courting,” Swift wrote. “Or even having a male good friend you platonically hang out with. If I was observed with him, it was assumed I was sleeping with him. And so I swore off hanging out with fellas, courting, flirting, or anything that could be weaponized versus me by a tradition that claimed to imagine in liberating gals by continually handled me with the harsh moral codes of the Victorian period.”

Instead, Swift focused on her circle of female friends, thinking that would ultimately get individuals to prevent conversing so a lot about her really like life. “Being a consummate optimist, I assumed I could fix this if I only modified my habits,” Swift continued. “I swore off courting and resolved to focus only on myself, my tunes, my progress, and my feminine friendships.”

Swift was disheartened when her admirers began speculating she was hooking up with her buddies in the course of her attempt to shift the narrative absent from staying sexualized. “If I only hung out with my feminine close friends, men and women could not sensationalize or sexualize that, correct? I would learn afterwards on that men and women could and persons would,” Swift wrote.

In one more segment of the album notes, Swift also shot back at the narrative her 1989-period “squad” was some evil cult. “You, who realized that probably a lady who surrounds herself with feminine mates in adulthood is earning up for a lack of them in childhood (not starting a tyrannical hot lady cult),” Swift wrote.