It is the third day of Women’s History Month, and instead of talking about a range of female accomplishments and achievements; everyone is instead, once again, talking about Taylor Swift.
Swift tweeted yesterday, criticising the Netflix series Ginny and Georgia for its ‘lazy, deeply sexist joke’ which apparently is ‘degrading hard working women.’ The joke comes from the series’ finale, when 15 year old Ginny argues with her 30 year old mother and cries, ‘What do you care, you go through men faster than Taylor Swift!’
A lazy joke? Yes. A deeply sexist one? I’m not so sure.
After a decade of mass tabloid coverage of her relationships, it’s understandable that Swift might be tired of her love life being a punchline. There’s no doubt that if you take the joke at face value, then it does seem outdated, repetitive, and – crucially – not true; she has been in a relationship with actor Joe Alwyn for over four years now.
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