For the last few months, I’ve had this niggling feeling that I can’t shake off. Whenever I look at my female friends and their boyfriends, I think, “Him? Seriously?” Then I look at my male friends, meet their girlfriends and think, “Wow, he’s really punching.”
The same could be said about couples in pop culture. While I loved Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn’s relationship, their break-up didn’t surprise me because I always thought she could do better. I imagined her with a partner who is her equal in terms of confidence and career (like her now-partner, American footballer Travis Kelce) rather than Alwyn, who let’s be honest, few had ever heard of until he started dating her. Alwyn was struggling to make it big in Hollywood and was rumoured to have struggled with Swift’s fame throughout his relationship with her. Kelce has already won the Super Bowl three times while publicly supporting his girlfriend by attending her tour multiple times.
