https://www.bautrytaylor.com/the-intersection-by-brie daily 0.75 2026-05-14 https://www.bautrytaylor.com/the-intersection-by-brie/the-dixie-chicks-made-me-liberal-a-history-of-female-celebrities-punished-for-their-politics monthly 0.5 2026-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/690bbaa7aab5c621ef6b6dbd/b972aff2-f0e3-40c9-b2b9-8ba195b99d44/545323190_24757192387226416_2140642282372351119_n.jpg The Intersection: Where Politics and Celebrity Collide - The Dixie Chicks Made Me Liberal: A History of Female Celebrities Punished for Their Politics - Me and My Siblings, 2001, New Mexico, Locked in on CMT Country Music Videos. I was raised by active-duty Air Force members, both Southern, which meant Saturday mornings sounded like Shania Twain, Garth Brooks, and most notably, my girls, the Chicks. (Formerly The Dixie Chicks.) Their music made me feel empowered, like I, too, could pack up and leave, like staying small wasn't required, like there were wide open spaces somewhere with my name on them. My parents had strict rules and a general Republican aura, but our house was inundated with powerful women making powerful music anyway. The Chicks were the loudest of them. And they were everywhere. By the time I memorized their lyrics, the Chicks were the best-selling female group in any genre in American music history. Two diamond albums in a row, a feat no other female group of any genre had ever matched. In 1998, they outsold every other country group combined. By 2002, Home was triple platinum two months after release, with thirteen Grammys on the shelf and “Travelin' Soldier" sitting at their sixth number one. They were halfway through an arena tour called Top of the World. That was, until 9/11 and Operation Iraqi Freedom. Until Natalie Maines used her voice to speak out. Candidly, I was not sentient enough to know anything about the Chicks outside of their music back then. All I knew was that the radio that carried them every Saturday morning had quietly stopped, and the CDs were abruptly left out of our cleaning days. Something had shifted. Not Ready to Sacrifice Her Voice Back in early 2003, the Chicks were halfway around the world, headlining a sold-out show at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire. They were nine days from the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Most of America was still draped in the post-9/11 flag, and the Bush administration was finishing the war's PR rollout. The Chicks were on the second leg of the Top of the World Tour, and Natalie Maines was about to introduce "Travelin' Soldier," a song about a high school girl losing her boyfriend in Vietnam. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/690bbaa7aab5c621ef6b6dbd/a9c3f41f-13a3-43d8-8818-9775232f0067/dixie-chicks-entertainment-weekly.webp The Intersection: Where Politics and Celebrity Collide - The Dixie Chicks Made Me Liberal: A History of Female Celebrities Punished for Their Politics - “Just so you know, we're on the good side with y'all. We do not want this war, this violence, and we're ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas. - Natalie Maines, 2003 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/690bbaa7aab5c621ef6b6dbd/cd78c3cb-37a3-476d-9771-00aebd49aa94/Blog+Images+%2811%29.png The Intersection: Where Politics and Celebrity Collide - The Dixie Chicks Made Me Liberal: A History of Female Celebrities Punished for Their Politics The Scream franchise made it to theaters without her, on what she correctly called nostalgia bait. Spyglass attempted, and failed, to replace the raw chemistry and charisma that Barrera and Ortega brought to the franchise. Scream 7 is the franchise's lowest-rated film to date. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/690bbaa7aab5c621ef6b6dbd/aeb1e622-7998-4ee8-bf30-b3da7d5b130a/Blog+Images+%2812%29.png The Intersection: Where Politics and Celebrity Collide - The Dixie Chicks Made Me Liberal: A History of Female Celebrities Punished for Their Politics On September 17, 2025, ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show off the air indefinitely after he made a monologue connecting the rhetoric of the MAGA movement to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. The FCC chair, Brendan Carr, threatened licensing action against affiliates that aired the show. Nexstar and Sinclair, two of the largest broadcast affiliate groups in the country, dropped Kimmel from their stations. By any reasonable measure, this was a coordinated institutional action against a major figure for political speech. https://www.bautrytaylor.com/the-intersection-by-brie/euphoria-is-a-horror-series-how-male-creators-turned-female-suffering-into-profitable-art monthly 0.5 2026-05-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/690bbaa7aab5c621ef6b6dbd/b8933605-78e4-42d5-858f-633de82a178b/15.png The Intersection: Where Politics and Celebrity Collide - Euphoria Is a Horror Series: How Male Creators Turned Female Suffering Into profitable art In 1974, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre kicked things up a notch by introducing the world to what critic Carol Clover would later coin the "final girl," Sally, in this case, and then giving her two hours and an acre of land to run for her life and suffer. The final girl is scrappy. She's scared and alone. She survives. The male audience, Clover argued, is structurally compelled to identify with her, seemingly presenting the film as feminist media when, in reality, it was anything but. If she's going to survive, she'd better crawl her way to the end of the movie. Every director from Eli Roth to Damien Leone to Sam Levinson uses Clover's framework the same way: the girl survives, therefore the film is feminist, therefore I can put these women in violent, often sexually dangerous situations on the way there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/690bbaa7aab5c621ef6b6dbd/88f0d727-d313-4077-b1f8-2b50a48d2703/Blog+Images+%286%29.png The Intersection: Where Politics and Celebrity Collide - Euphoria Is a Horror Series: How Male Creators Turned Female Suffering Into profitable art - Did you know that Sam Levinson was a nepo baby? His daddy, Barry Levinson, directed the Academy Award-winning film Rain Man. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/690bbaa7aab5c621ef6b6dbd/9ccc6a81-4a4c-4aa9-83dd-88b889415f7b/16.png The Intersection: Where Politics and Celebrity Collide - Euphoria Is a Horror Series: How Male Creators Turned Female Suffering Into profitable art By Leone's own design, this is a series in which the most elaborate and prolonged kills are reserved for women. In Terrifier 1, Art saws a woman in half from crotch to skull while she is hanging upside down. In Terrifier 2, he spends roughly fifteen minutes torturing a teenage girl in her bedroom with a hammer, scissors, and salt. In Terrifier 3, he kills a man and writes the words "cunt pig bitch slut whore filth" in the man's blood next to a female victim. Male victims in the Terrifier films, when they appear, tend to die quickly and fully clothed. Female victims tend to die slowly and in some state of undress. Surely this kind of content isn't widespread, though, right? You tell me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/690bbaa7aab5c621ef6b6dbd/08b75e37-d88e-4bc8-ba4d-c67a6ef8e446/Blog+Images+%287%29.png The Intersection: Where Politics and Celebrity Collide - Euphoria Is a Horror Series: How Male Creators Turned Female Suffering Into profitable art In 2024, the French director Coralie Fargeat released The Substance, a body horror film starring Demi Moore as an aging television fitness star who injects herself with a black-market drug that allows her to birth a younger, more beautiful version of herself, played by Margaret Qualley. The film is, by any measure, more graphic than anything Sam Levinson has ever put on television. Bodies split open. Skin stretches and tears. 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The language evolved out of necessity. "Skinny" became "lean." "Dieting" became "eating clean." Restriction became "intuitive eating gone wrong" or a "gut reset." The fixation didn't disappear. It put on athleisure and started a podcast. Sociologist Erving Goffman's concept of impression management argued that we are all constantly performing versions of ourselves calibrated to our audience. Wellness culture is diet culture performing impression management for a post-body-positivity audience. 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