We've Decoded the Hidden References in Taylor Swift's "Ready For It" Video So You Don't Have To

While this could allude to the Salem witch trials where people were wrongfully accused and executed for being something that they're not, it also resembles director Joseph Kahn's recent tweets about women being treated unfairly in the media. "Society is tougher on girls through critical generalizations, mostly through the cultural dismissal of female intelligence as manipulation," he wrote. "I think females have empathy superpower that men often lack. So when you combine natural empathy with intelligence, it scares a lot of men. Remember, they burned witches."