Ginny & Georgia is the new teen series that is creating the buzz on Netflix. If it remains number 1 on the platform since it went online, not everyone welcomes this program with an unfulfilled heart. This is the case of some fans of Taylor Swift who because of a line aimed at their idol, harass an actress of the program.
Article updated on March 5, 2021 –
Ginny & Georgia, this is the new sensation of Netflix.
Since it went online last February, the 10 episodes of the program have literally been devoured by subscribers to the platform. We understood.
In it, the character of Ginny makes an awkward stop at Taylor Swift, alluding to her private life:
It balances indeed:
“What can that do to you? You change men faster than Taylor Swift. “
A task that the star in question did not digest well. Neither do his fans. And the latter began to act in a reprehensible manner …
Taylor Swift fans harass Ginny & Georgia actress
The young actress who plays Ginny is called Antonia Gentry and she is only 23 years old (that’s still 6 years older than her character, but that’s another debate).
While she posted a new photo of her on Instagram on March 1, some Taylor Swift fans, named the Swifties, swarmed, urging the young woman to respect Taylor Swift.
It is therefore a real harassment that the actress had to face.
The Swifties should therefore be reminded that there is no valid reason to harass someone, that harassment is punishable by law and that Antonia Gentry, moreover, is not responsible for the dialogues written for the series.
These lines were written by the authors of the programs. They represent the fictitious point of view of a television character, not that of a person who actually exists in reality.
It is therefore legitimate to ask what are the factors which lead certain individuals not to distinguish between a fictional character and his interpreter.
We remember for example Tom Felton, the actor who played Draco Malfoy in the saga Harry Potter, who for years suffered harassment from fans of the films.
In question ? His role as a villain in the opuses.
The actor thus revealed to Extra, in 2019:
“Sometimes I still have a few small clashes with people who have very, very virulent opinions and who say to me” How dare you be so mean to Harry ?! “”
A most astonishing behavior, which this year harms Antonia Gentry to whom we definitely wish good luck.
Article originally published on March 2, 2021 –
After the bottles of rose water distributed by Bridgerton and toppers provided by Lupin, it’s the turn of the program Ginny & Georgia to cap at first place in the top Netflix France.
A teen series full of good intentions, which nevertheless attracts the wrath of a crowd of viewers.
In question ? A line on Taylor Swift deemed sexist. A shame for a format with progressive finery …
Ginny & Georgia taclée par Taylor Swift
The Netflix show, which depicts the mother-daughter relationship of two women who are only fifteen years apart, against a background of murder, has been a hit since it was posted on the red-branded platform on February 24.
But not everyone welcomes the program wholeheartedly.
Indeed, the singer Taylor Swift was the object of a valve with doubtful taste indeed. Ginny’s character lets go of her mother after she asks her if she broke up with her boyfriend:
“What can that do to you? You change men faster than Taylor Swift. “
A mockery that has not passed!
The 31-year-old singer tweeted:
“Hey ‘Ginny & Georgia’ 2010 called and wants you to make her joke easy and deeply sexist.” What if we stop degrading women’s hard work by treating this shitty joke as funny? And by the way Netflix, after “Miss Americana” [le documentaire que Netflix lui a consacré en 2020], this costume does not suit you. Happy month of women in history by the way ”
His fans, meanwhile, were quick to express their displeasure by launching the hashtag. #respecttaylorswift.
The past love and the conquests of the singer have indeed long made the front page of the tabloids.
And it was never to be detailed in a good light, on the contrary. It was more about judging the plurality of her relationships, effectively denying her primary right to do WHAT SHE WANTS.
Reactions, from the media and sometimes even other artists who played the game of sexism from another time.
Taylor explained in an interview given in 2014 on 2Day:
“There will always be people to say: she just writes songs about her ex-boyfriends. […] Nobody says that about Ed Sheeran or Bruno Mars. They all write songs about their exes, their girlfriends or their love life… ”
Yes, it is customary to blame women for behaviors considered normal when adopted by men. We don’t teach you anything. This is the basis of sexism.
And that, Taylor is full of cowboy boots.
Even if one can reproach the singer for approaching feminism head-on only when it concerns her personal life, which attracts her certain criticisms of feminists, in particular racialized, difficult not to side with her in relation to the gratuity of this remark of the series Ginny & Georgia.
Ginny & Georgia, What is that ?
A controversy all the more unfortunate that the program tries by all means to play the game of its time by checking all the boxes of progressivism.
Her heroine, the young (and talented) Ginny is racialized, she reframes a teacher from her new high school by stressing that he only makes them study male authors, white and of a certain age, she speaks of the invisibilization of minorities , her best friend is a lesbian, her mother does not respect the classic pattern of “the model mother” and her group of friends are diverse.
Thereby, Ginny & Georgia is paved with good intentions and is carved in the same stone, at times, that Sex Education.
In short, Ginny & Georgia is a less white, less heteronormous program than many other teen dramas. And that is far too rare not to be underlined.
But we have to admit that the program makes a few mistakes, including this inappropriate line because it is sexist and a slightly shady scene in the first episode of the program, during which the high school BG sneaks into Ginny’s room by fashion Edward Cullen in this good dung Twilight.
But does a show absolutely have to be flawless to deserve to be consumed?
Can the few mistakes of a program destroy its good initial intentions?
In a world that we would like to be more nuanced, more tender and tolerant, it is believed that the measure should replace the pillory.
Thus, and despite its faults, we advise you to give it a chance Ginny & Georgia who tries so hard to do well and whose half-teen, half-police springs will delight your too long evenings alone.
Ginny & Georgia, what is it about exactly?
Ginny is Georgia’s daughter.
She is a high school student and often rolls her ulcerated eyes at the sky. When his teachers tell nonsense or when his mother falls in love with a new man, for example.
Ginny is fed up with moving every year, changing schools, not having friends because Georgia got married or fell in love with a man she then left before she left. ‘escape.
Georgia, on the other hand, is a funny, brash, whimsical and above all very young mother.
Because she had her first child at only 15 years old. As a teenager, Georgia had to flee her home where she was subjected to violence and very quickly found herself struggling to survive and lead an adult life.
For her now, it’s her children and she against the rest of the world. And there is no question of someone coming to endanger his little clan.
She can go far to protect those she loves.
Very far…
Ginny & Georgia, with Antonia Gentry and Brianne Howey is available on Netflix.
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