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YES. Taylor Swift’s Bad Week continues. Looks like Swifty isn’t the only one capable of making some excellent strategic maneuvers to collect powerful and accomplished friends. On Tuesday night, Swift and Nicki Minaj got into it on Twitter – I have no desire to recap the whole sordid/funny/tragic mess, so go here to see yesterday’s post. Following the initial beef, Swifty looked like a tone-deaf a—hole and Minaj was still talking about racism in the music industry and how artists like Swift are applauded while artists that look like Minaj are demoted to “strictly urban markets/awards.” And guess who joined Minaj? Only Taylor Swift’s #1 Enemy, Katy Perry. This is so delicious!!! My only complaint is that Katy’s wording could be much better.

Finding it ironic to parade the pit women against other women argument about as one unmeasurably capitalizes on the take down of a woman…

— KATY PERRY (@katyperry) July 22, 2015

My Katy Perry-to-Kaiser translation: “It’s pretty ironic for Taylor Swift to use an argument of ‘women are being pitted against other women’ just as she capitalizes on the takedown of another woman.” Was Katy even referencing Nicki Minaj or was the “takedown of another woman” a reference to Katy? But Katy wasn’t even done:

The real travesty is where is the shine for #BBHMMVideo when VMA eligibility period was 7/7/14-7/1/15 & that gem dropped 7/1… @MTV

— KATY PERRY (@katyperry) July 22, 2015

I think Katy Perry might need a slow clap for this one. It’s not even about Rihanna’s video at this point. With two little tweets, Katy Perry stuck it to Taylor Swift on so many levels. First, the petty girl-drama level: Minaj “favorited” Perry’s first tweet, meaning Katy and Minaj are BFFs now. And you know Rihanna and Katy are even closer now – Rihanna has refused to take sides in the beef between Katy and Swift, but by using her platform to recognize Rihanna, you’ve gotta think that Katy just insured Rihanna’s future loyalty.

Even more than that – and I never thought I’d write these words – Katy has proven herself to be a much more thoughtful feminist ally to women like Minaj and Rihanna, and any artist, really. The curtain really came back on Taylor Swift’s version of “feminism” and I feel like there’s going to be a lot more shade thrown in Swifty’s direction in the future. Swifty believes that feminism is “no one can say mean things about me but I can pick catfights with other women” and she came across as especially tone-deaf in the Twitter beef. Well played, Katy.

Update: Taylor just tweeted this:

I thought I was being called out. I missed the point, I misunderstood, then misspoke. I'm sorry, Nicki. @NICKIMINAJ

— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) July 23, 2015

Ha, the world got Taylor Swift to back down and admit she made a mistake!!

Photos courtesy of WENN, Getty.

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