On Friday, following the release of her album, ‘Midnights,’ Taylor Swift dropped the video for her single, ‘Anti-Hero.’ On Twitter, Swift described the video as depicting “my nightmare scenarios and intrusive thoughts.” Those include watching her imagined adult children fight about their inheritance, being a larger-than-life “monster” who takes up too much space with her friends, and stepping on a scale that tells her she’s “FAT.” The backlash came, um, swiftly, as people started criticizing the use of the word “fat,” calling the video fatphobic and insensitive. Swift’s defenders pointed out that she has previously discussed suffering from disordered eating. “There’s a difference between saying being fat is bad and saying you have a literal eating disorder that you’re constantly battling,” tweeted one fan. Others argued that the scale in the video is intended as a criticism of society, and the frequent messaging that being “fat” is bad and something to be feared. Olivia Truffaut-Wong has some thoughts on the matter: “I can see why this interpretation is appealing, and it might have been her intention, but aside from this brief moment, the video doesn’t include any wider examination of what Swift feels about the word ‘fat.’ In the context of the video, ‘fat’ remains a negative word.” Read Truffaut-Wong’s essay on the video and what it says about how that three-letter word gets used in popular culture at the link in bio.