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Taylor Swift slams 'Ginny and Georgia', says '2010 called and it wants its lazy, deeply sexist joke back'

On two different occasions, the show took potshots at Swift with jokes like, 'What do you care? You go through men faster than Taylor Swift,' and 'Taylor Swift made an entire career off her exes'

A new Netflix young-adult drama series has caused an outrage, angering not just Taylor Swift fans, but the pop star herself. 'Ginny & Georgia', which premiered on Netflix on February 24, 2021, had allegedly misogynistic dialogues. The show follows Ginny Miller (Antonia Gentry), a 15-year-old, and her 30-year-old mother Georgia (Brianne Howey) in a New England town. 

‘Ginny & Georgia’, from first-time showrunner Debra J. Fisher and first-time creator Sarah Lampert, tells the tale of the angsty and awkward Ginny Miller, who often feels more mature than her mother, the irresistible and dynamic Georgia Miller. After years on the run, Georgia desperately wants to put down roots in picturesque New England and give her family something they've never had... a normal life. But it's not all carpool and Kombucha as Georgia's past threatens her and her family's new way of life... and Georgia will do anything to protect her family.

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In one of the episodes, we see the mother-daughter duo in conversation. On two different occasions, the show took potshots at Swift: “What do you care? You go through men faster than Taylor Swift,” and “Taylor Swift made an entire career off her exes”. Fans of Swift soon took over Twitter to slam ‘Ginny & Georgia’, accusing the show of slut-shaming. 

“If those scriptwriters thought of these lines as jokes, are they really that dumb? Being misogynistic and slut-shaming people has never been a joke. Taylor has been slut-shamed throughout her entire career and she doesn't deserve it, no one else does! RESPECT TAYLOR SWIFT,” wrote one fan on Twitter. Thousands of others had similar comments.

Like fans, Swift has criticized the show’s writing as well. She called the dialogues from ‘Ginny & Georgia’ a “lazy, deeply sexist” joke made about her dating life. “Hey Ginny & Georgia, 2010 called and it wants its lazy, deeply sexist joke back. How about we stop degrading hard-working women by defining this horse shit as FuNnY,” Swift wrote. “Also, @netflix after Miss Americana this outfit doesn’t look cute on you [broken heart] Happy Women’s History Month I guess.” 

‘Miss Americana’ is a 2020 American documentary film directed by Lana Wilson, that follows American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift and her life over the course of several years of her career. As per Netflix, the documentary “is a raw and emotionally revealing look at Taylor Swift, one of the most iconic artists of our time, during a transformational period in her life. The film tells the story of Swift navigating the difference between who the world wants her to be, and who she wants to be. Director Lana Wilson offers a luminous and multifaceted window into a global superstar learning to embrace her role not only as a songwriter and performer, but as a woman harnessing the full power of her voice.”

Swift has been at the receiving end of potshots at her dating life in the past. Whether it is award shows or TV appearances, her highly-publicized dating history has been widely discussed. The ‘Love Story’ hitmaker has dated celebrities such as Harry Styles, Tom Hiddleston, Calvin Harris, John Mayer and Jake Gyllenhaal. The singer has also been a part of memes and jokes for getting inspired from her heartbreaks to make new songs.