Viewers flocked to the Netflix show “Ginny & Georgia” over the weekend, making it one of the top 10 shows for the streaming service. Despite the show’s success, Grammy Award winner Taylor Swift has left a scathing review on her Twitter page, dissing the Netflix drama for what she calls a sexist joke about her.
Swift, who released her Netflix documentary “Miss Americana” last year, said in a Monday tweet the jokes on the Toronto-filmed drama were not funny or necessary. The show, which follows a young mom and her teenage daughter coping with a new life in a well-to-do Massachusetts town, has been heralded by viewers. However, the “Love Story” singer and songwriter said she found one joke on the streaming program to be trite.
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When Ginny, played by Antonia Gentry, attempts to make a dig at her mom, Georgia, played by Brianne Howey, during an argument, the teen character drags Swift along the way.
“What do you care? You go through men faster than Taylor Swift,” Ginny tells her mother in one scene.
The joke, Swift contends in a tweet, is unoriginal and “deeply sexist.”
“Hey Ginny & Georgia, 2010 called and it wants its lazy, deeply sexist joke back,” she snipes in the social post. “How about we stop degrading hard working women by defining this horse (expletive) as FuNnY.”
She goes on to sarcastically wish the streaming service and the show a “Happy Women’s History Month.”
The 31-year-old’s fans were also unamused. They agreed that mocking the songwriter’s dating past was a form of “slut-shaming” and misogynistic, considering many other high-profile male celebrities have similar or perhaps more extensive dating cards, some noted.
Several fans panned the show’s writers for a poor effort at comedy.
Some even pointed to Swift’s mounting accolades as the better reference to make in any fictional show. She is currently up for six Grammy awards, including Album of the Year for “Folklore,” her eighth studio album.
The show’s writers have reportedly blocked fans of the singer, who are called Swifties, for making personal attacks against Gentry, an actress who hails from Atlanta.
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