Taylor Swift named Woman Of The Decade, blasts "toxic male privilege" in acceptance speech

Taylor Swift was named Billboard's woman of the decade on Thursday night, and she used the occasion to criticise "toxic male privilege" in the music industry. "Women in music are not allowed to coast," she observed, and added - "we are held at a higher, sometimes impossible-feeling, standard". She said that in her early days, critics had speculated that "a male producer or co-writer" was the real reason for her success - "people want to explain away a woman's success in this industry". "In the last 10 years, I have watched as women in this industry are criticised and measured up to each other and picked at for their bodies, their romantic lives, their fashion," she continued. "Have you ever heard someone say about a male artist, 'I really like his songs, but I don't know what it is - there's just something about him I don't like?'". Billboard...