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Taylor Swift criticizes Netflix show over ‘lazy, deeply sexist joke’

Bea Cupin

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Taylor Swift criticizes Netflix show over ‘lazy, deeply sexist joke’

NOT TODAY. Taylor Swift also criticizes Netflix, the same platform that distributed 'Miss Americana.'

Photo from Taylor Swift's Instagram account

'2010 called and it wants its lazy, deeply sexist joke back,' writes the singer

Taylor Swift hit back at a recent Netflix series that made a sexist joke at her expense.

Taylor Swift criticizes Netflix show over ‘lazy, deeply sexist joke’

“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,” said the Grammy winner late Monday, March 1, in a tweet.

Taylor also criticized Netflix, which released Ginny & Georgia a week back, for its inconsistency. The streaming giant also distributed Miss Americana, Lana Wilson’s documentary on Swift’s rise from country singer to international phenomenon.

“Also, [Netflix], after Miss Americana this outfit doesn’t look cute on you. Happy Women’s History Month I guess,” she said.

In the documentary, released in early 2020, Swift talks at length about the sexism and misogyny she encountered as her star grew. The singer became fodder for tabloid headlines in the late 2010s, when the media and the public obsessed over and even slut-shamed her for her dating habits – which was the “punchline” in the 2021 Netflix series Ginny and Georgia.

In the show, one of the characters pokes fun at Taylor and tells another character: “What do you care? You go through men faster than Taylor Swift.” Taylor was a trending topic on Twitter, as fans demanded an apology from Netflix and the show.

Taylor has been vocal about the misogyny and unfair scrutiny women who happen to be public figures are subject to. Her 2017 album, reputation, touched on the media scrutiny she had to bear.

A more recent song from the 2019 album Lover, “The Man,” imagines how the media and the public would treat her had she been a man.

Taylor has come out with two albums – folklore and evermore – in 2020, as she quarantined in her Rhode Island home. – Rappler.com

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Bea Cupin

Bea is a senior multimedia reporter who covers national politics. She's been a journalist since 2011 and has written about Congress, the national police, and the Liberal Party for Rappler.