I always find it interesting how little I see non-gaylor swifties discuss Taylor's need for us to see her as The Man, so I decided to lay it all out here. Sincerest apologies if this has been done before and I just didn't see it!

Taylor calls her counterpart in CLM a "cowboy like me, she is definitely wanting us to envision her as a *cowboy here which is interesting because later in hits different she refers to herself as an asshole outlaw which isn't to say women couldn't be outlaws, there just weren't many prolific women outlaws so again I think she wants us to see her this way.

Taylor created the (self-insert) character of James, coincidentally enough the surname of the male musician that is Taylor's namesake.

She is Miss Americana and The Heartbreak Prince

She is both Wendy and Peter

She is the Good Girl and the Sad Boy

She's the cursed man, on his fourth drink desperately praying for purchase

She is the Main guy you shouldn't kill off

She is THE Man

I'll end this with possibly my favorite nod to Taylor being The Man

No I can not seem / to get a moments peace/ if there's a man like me/ his birch ain't my tree