Ginny’s first time feels akin to fanfiction: In the pilot episode, she approaches and kisses her neighbor and classmate Marcus (Felix Mallard). It’s just the way life works.” On the contrary, some of the strongest parts of Ginny and Georgia are about sex. “He had a horrible death because I had incredible sex. “I had sex and now dad is dead,” Grace says. “I had sex, so now I don’t get to go to Harvard.” This kind of thinking about teenage sex permeated other shows during that time: On The Secret Life of the American Teenager, Grace (Megan Park) learns her father died right after she has sex for the first time. Rory’s nemesis-turned-friend, Paris (Liza Weil), is rejected from her dream school, Harvard, after she loses her virginity-and Paris thinks having sex is the reason she didn’t get accepted. When Rory begins dating, Lorelai tells her, “If you’re going to throw your life away, he’d better have a motorcycle,” and Lorelai brags that “I’ve got the good kid” when she overhears Rory telling a friend she’s still a virgin.īeyond Lorelai’s rhetoric, Gilmore Girls constantly reinforces a black and white understanding of teenage sex: Rory’s best friend, Lane Kim (Keiko Agena), becomes pregnant with twins the first time she has sex. Thanks to this complicated and painful situation, Lorelai paints teenage sex with a broad brush: It’s bad, leads to pregnancy, and should be avoided at all costs. Lorelai’s sexuality is entangled with her difficult history: She disappointed her parents by becoming pregnant and then refusing to marry Rory’s father, marring the family’s reputation. But the shows tackle the role of sexuality in Ginny and Rory’s coming of age in dramatically different ways. This plays out differently for each woman: Georgia is rash and at times cruel, while Lorelai is melodramatic and often distracted, but their daughters share more in common: When we first meet them, Ginny and Rory are both very smart, very studious, and very virginal.
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While the series has many moving parts- as many critics have noted-the show strikingly faces sex and sexuality head on, especially when held up against its predecessor.īoth Georgia and Lorelai were teenage parents, so they’re coming of age at the same time as their daughters. The 10-episode first season follows 15-year-old Ginny (Antonia Gentry) and her mom, Georgia (Brianne Howey), who is 31, as they relocate to New England after the death of Georgia’s latest husband. But now, Netflix is airing Ginny and Georgia, another mother-daughter show, that’s drawing comparisons to Gilmore Girls (though, NPR notes, “ Ginny & Georgia Is Not Gilmore Girls 2”). While Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and Rory (Alexis Bledel) share adorably witty banter and I still turn to the show for comfort, the series often stumbled over sex, sexuality, pleasure, and punishment.
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Brianne Howey as Georgia, left, and Antonia Gentry as Ginny in Ginny and Georgia (Photo credit: Netflix)ĭespite spending two decades being heralded as the ultimate mother-daughter series and an example of early feminist television-they’re both strong and independent women!- Gilmore Girls is full of sex shaming.
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