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If anyone has helped bring back “squad,” it’s Taylor Swift and her white, thin, blonde army of friend candy and all its #squadgoals delights.

Over the past year, Swift has made female friendship trendy, gathering a collection of actors, models and singers, including Selena Gomez, Karlie Kloss and Cara Delevingne. A group which feminist icon Camille Paglia has called out as “exhibitionist overkill” in a scathing new critique of the pop singer for The Hollywood Reporter.

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Her twinkly persona is such a scary flashback to the fascist blondes who ruled the social scene during my youth

She refers to Swift as an “obnoxious Nazi Barbie” whose “twinkly persona is such a scary flashback to the fascist blondes who ruled the social scene during my youth.”

Paglia, known for landmark feminist writing, such as Sexual Personae, criticized the singer for perpetuating elitism and appropriating feminism by surrounding herself with women who are nothing more than “performance props.”

Swift herself should retire that obnoxious Nazi Barbie routine of wheeling out friends and celebrities as performance props

She writes that the “tittering, tongues-out mugging of Swift’s bear-hugging posse” opposes the modern era of female independence, instead promoting a “silly, regressive public image.”