Any of you big mean men go to the game and boo taylor?

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Since Donald Trump took office, there have been several times I felt chilled by the rapid increase in misogyny seeping in our culture. But watching Taylor Swift at Super Bowl LIX booed by a crowd of thousands on Sunday night was a new low.

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But I was there at the game. When Swift’s face appeared on the Jumbotron, an almost instant—and distinctly male—dissent erupted from around me.

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(of course, there were those in the crowd who booed the president and cheered for Swift as well, but from my vantage point, it was clear what the overall sentiment was).

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To me, the disparate reactions felt like a message. That the Super Bowl, one of the biggest cultural events in the country, has been reclaimed by Trump and the type of toxic masculinity he appears to be the beacon of. And he and his supporters seem to be living for it.

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By calling her out, Trump looked to play by the now-standard internet misogyny playbook. It wasn’t enough that Swift was publicly mocked, now he needed to troll her about it, attempting to humiliate her even further. We all got normalized to this sort of conduct in 2016, when the president mocking his apparent enemies on Twitter became a near daily occurrence (surely he has something better to do, right?). But it's still worth calling out how gross—and frankly ridiculous—this sort of conduct is. And when the Twitter rant becomes real life, in the form of a stadium full of thousands and thousands of people, it's chilling. The online bullies of 2016 are now, in 2025, very real.

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