The critical response to Taylor Swift‘s new album, The Life of a Showgirl, has been all across the board, but there’s one section of the discourse that Ruby Rose — a longtime friend of the pop star’s — isn’t standing for.

In a series of posts on Threads on Monday (Oct. 13), the actress hit back at claims that Swift is pushing a socially conservative narrative with her lyrics about marriage and wanting to start a family on Showgirl. “As someone who has spent many nights discussing the world, social injustice and life, with The Show Girl herself,” Rose began, noting that she refuses “to say [Swift’s] name in the same sentence as the hate group, Wackadoodles,” seemingly referring to MAGA Republicans.

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