“By the way, excellent work over there, Loren,” director Taylor Swift says to 17-year-old Loren Gray at the end of her new video for “The Man,” adding that her work was “astonishing.” The joke was that Loren did nothing but stand there and roll her eyes. Meanwhile, the male lead was asked to be “sexier” and “maybe more likable,” a gender-reversal of what probably has happened to Taylor, Loren, and countless millions of other women.