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Taylor Swift slams Netflix and Ginny & Georgia for the show's "lazy, deeply sexist joke" about her

posted 3 years ago by TMC-4 (19571)
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https://tvline.com/2021/03/01/taylor-swift-ginny-and-georgia-joke-boyfriends/

On the new Gilmore Girls-esque Netflix series, mom Georgia comments on her daughter Ginny's relationship status, saying: “What do you care? You go through men faster than Taylor Swift.” After Swift's fans expressed outrage on social media over the weekend, prompting "RESPECT TAYLOR SWIFT" to trend, Swift responded this morning on Twitter, slamming not only the show, but Netflix, which last year streamed her Miss Americana documentary. "Hey Ginny & Georgia, 2010 called and it wants its lazy, deeply sexist joke back," Swift tweeted. "How about we stop degrading hard working women by defining this horse sh*t as FuNnY. Also, @netflix after Miss Americana this outfit doesn’t look cute on you. (broken heart emoji). Happy Women’s History Month I guess."

https://www.reddit.com/r/TaylorSwift/comments/lvb80o/taylor_tweets_about_the_sexist_netflix_show_joke/

https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/taylor-swift-drags-netflix.4444697/

https://www.datalounge.com/thread/28050452-taylor-swift-fuming-after-a-netflix-show-made-a-joke-about-her-dating-lots-of-men

https://www.datalounge.com/thread/28050477-taylor-swift-calls-out-netflix-ginny-georgia-for-deeply-sexist-joke-about-her

[–] samoanjoes (53075) 3 years ago

She dates every guy, trashes them in songs after they break up, but doesn't like when someone trashes her?

[–] TMC-4 (19571) 3 years ago

Amid Taylor Swift's Ginny & Georgia spat, Antonia Gentry is getting harassed over a "throwaway line"

https://themuse.jezebel.com/ginny-miller-isnt-real-1846383549

Gentry has received a barrage of harassment on her Instagram account after her character Ginny's joke that “you go through men faster than Taylor Swift" to her on-screen mom Georgia on the brand-new Netflix drama went viral over the weekend. The joke prompted Swift fans to get "RESPECT TAYLOR SWIFT" to trend, a line repeated numerous times on Gentry's most recent Instagram post from Sunday. On Monday morning. Swift responded by slamming not only the show, but Netflix, which showed her Miss Americana documentary last year. "Hey Ginny & Georgia, 2010 called and it wants its lazy, deeply sexist joke back," Swift tweeted. "How about we stop degrading hard working women by defining this horse sh*t as FuNnY. Also, @netflix after Miss Americana this outfit doesn’t look cute on you (broken heart emoji) Happy Women’s History Month I guess." Netflix has yet to comment on the controversy. "Several things can be true at once," says Ashley Reese of the controversy. "One truth is that Antonia Gentry, the 25-year-old actor from Atlanta, Georgia, in her first semi-major role, didn’t write the Taylor Swift line, and attacking her in the name of Taylor Swift is not feminism, it’s being boneheaded online. Another truth is this: Taylor Swift’s love life has been the center of both tabloid fodder and entire album cycles for the majority of her career. She has made a point to both poke fun at her reputation as a chronic dater and object to the media’s fixation with her relationship status, a fixation that has hounded her since her teens. That Swift is unhappy about a line poking fun at her multiple relationships is her prerogative. Plus, she’s right in saying that the line was outdated: Using Taylor Swift’s love life as a punchline would have been right at home in a script from 2014, but 2021?

[–] moviechatterer (14170) 3 years ago

" didn’t write the Taylor Swift line, and attacking her in the name of Taylor Swift is not feminism, it’s being boneheaded online. "
nailed it

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

Oh those Swifties are a nasty bunch. They are ruthless.

[–] Taeivon (197) 3 years ago

Maybe the joke was in bad taste and they shouldn't have done it, but please explain to me how the fuck it's sexist. It has nothing to do with her gender.

[–] PaladinNJ (20676) 3 years ago

It's not sexist. She seems to write a song about every Ex she has. That's a lot of songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=160kTrjVh2U

[–] TMC-4 (19571) 3 years ago

Taylor Swift's "sexism" accusation against Ginny & Georgia is "pretty dumb," especially since she essentially made the same joke about herself

https://slate.com/culture/2021/03/taylor-swift-ginny-georgia-netflix-sexism-dumb.html

Ginny & Georgia is a "pretty dumb" show, says Heather Schwedel of Swift's tweet accusing the Netflix show of being "deeply sexist" for a joke saying "You go through men faster than Taylor Swift." "So the idea of taking anything about this show seriously is a little ridiculous," says Schwedel, adding: "Big whoop, right? Calling this joke 'deeply sexist' is verging on ludicrous. Deeply sexist? To say that Swift famously had a lot of boyfriends? It’s a strange hill for her to die on—especially given how Swift herself has made her personal life a major theme in her music throughout her career. In fact, she made essentially the same joke Ginny & Georgia made herself years ago: Does the line 'Got a long list of ex-lovers' from 'Blank Space' ring any bells? Granted, Swift is right that the joke is lazy and dated; it’s not remotely sharp in 2021. But then close-reading her tweet further, the accusation of 'degrading hard working women' also reads strangely—what does 'hard work' have to do with this? And then, does Swift really believe Netflix owes her something just because it released her documentary, Miss Americana, last year? And then: 'Happy Women’s History Month I guess.' Uh, indeed? This show debuted in February, and it’s likely Swift got wind of the apparent unflattering reference to her before Monday—did she hold off on posting this tweet until the first day of March so she could really wallop us with the Women’s History Month connection? It’s not like Women’s History Month is a particularly sacred time when it’s worse than usual to take swipes at women; in my experience, it mainly exists as a theme for elementary school book reports."

[–] Flickers (11) 3 years ago

She's a humorless idiot. The media has mocked Leonardo DiCaprio for jumping from woman to woman. Is her crying about it? No! He's having the time of his life.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

Of course she is humorless, she is a cat lady!

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

That whole show is dumpster fire. Total woke garbage.

But Taylor is of course making a big deal about it starved for attention as she is. Yawn.

Still very funny to see the woke eat each other.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

Such a "strong" and "independent" woman Taylor is. Fake.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

Good for her.