Furious Taylor Swift attacks Netflix over ‘sexist’ Ginny and Georgia joke aimed at her: ‘This isn’t a good look on you’

Taylor Swift has hit back at Netflix teen series Ginny and Georgia for making a slut-shaming joke at her expense.

The Love Story singer was unwittingly drawn into the series during a row between Ginny (Antonia Gentry) and her mother Georgia (Brianne Howey). 

In the series finale, teen Ginny lashes out at her mum after she gets into a series of complicated romances after moving into a new town. 

Georgia then brings up Ginny’s relationship with boyfriend Hunter, asking if they’d broken up or not.

Starting an argument, Ginny snaps back: ‘What do you care? You go through men faster than Taylor Swift.’ 

This didn’t sit right with Taylor, who worked with Netflix on her documentary Miss Americana, and after fan backlash supporting her trended on Twitter, she responded herself.

‘Hey Ginny & Georgia, 2010 called and it wants its lazy, deeply sexist joke back,’ she wrote.

‘How about we stop degrading hard working women by defining this horse s**t as FuNnY.’

She then took aim at Netflix and added: ‘Also, Netflix after Miss Americana this outfit doesn’t look cute on you.

‘Happy Women’s History Month I guess.’

The comment was a clear knock at Taylor, whose past relationships have been highly publicised and scrutinised. 

In an interview with Vogue in 2016, even Taylor hit out at the criticism of her romantic life, and said: ‘If I could talk to my 19-year-old self, I’d say “hey, you know, you’re gonna date just like a normal 20 something should be allowed to, but you’re going to be a national lightning rod for slut shaming.”’

Despite it being no one’s business who she dates, and despite the Look What You Made Me Do star happily being in a relationship with actor Joe Alwyn for four years – that didn’t stop the swipe still remaining. 

Fans of the star have therefore leapt to her defence, telling Netflix to ‘respect Taylor Swift’.

On top of their outrage on Twitter, fans have also been bombing the show on review sites.

Rotten Tomatoes now has its audience score set at just 12% – despite the series being in the top 10 most viewed shows over the past week.

But even regardless of the Swift fans giving their input, the show has been on shaky ground with others condemning their treatment of issues of race and sexism.

During one scene, dubbed ‘Oppression Olympics’, Ginny (who is half Black) and boyfriend Hunter (who is half Asian) hurl racist insults at each other during a fight about how Black/Asian they come across to their white friends.

Metro.co.uk has reached out to Netflix for comment.

Ginny And Georgia is available now on Netflix.

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