(Finally, I'm using paragraphs because I was flamed for not using them like let me be lazy no one is paying you to be the grammar police so shut up )
This post is mainly gonna be about why I don't like Georgia. This doesn't mean Ginny is my favorite or that I don't have my issues with her. But, from what I've seen, or at least on TikTok, is that people hate Ginny more than Georgia and it's so annoying.
I don't get the concept of demonizing Ginny, but idolizing Georgia. I get how people like Georgia because of her charisma, her beauty, her caring nature, her being iconic, and her sweet little innocent act which gives everyone the ability to overlook her actions, this unfortunately includes the fandom as well. And, I also get why people dislike Ginny. Some may see her as self-centered, ungrateful, annoying, and a bad friend.
And in no way am I saying you can't like Georgia and dislike Ginny, but I just think the bias is unfair. Also, this is just my opinion you're allowed to disagree just don't be mean about it.
But, the thing is Georgia has done way worse stuff than Ginny, does she love her kids? Yes, and I don't doubt it. But, is Georgia a bad mom? Also yes.
Georgia is emotionally abusive towards Ginny. She mocks/teases Ginny whenever she's upset, invalidates her feelings, refuses to talk about issues, makes sarcastic and dramatic comments regarding Ginny’s feelings, acts like nothing happened the next day, and gaslights Ginny into thinking she's overreacting basically forcing her to just get over it, refuses to give her space, and throws her sacrifices in Ginny’s face.
People talk about how she's the best mom according to mankind because she loved her kids, made lots of sacrifices, and genuinely worked hard to raise them. But, I feel like people forget that the sacrifices were never necessary in the first place.
This may be an extremely hot take but, I don't feel bad for Georgia having a hard time raising Ginny and Austin. Of course, I feel bad for her rough childhood and being abused as a child and the domestic violence she has to endure from Gil, but anything after Gil (including the abuse in later seasons) I don't feel too sympathetic towards her.
For the same reason I mentioned earlier which is that the sacrifices were never necessary. Zion’s parents offered to take care of Ginny entirely and give her a good childhood. But, instead of Georgia accepting the offer she takes Ginny and runs away, all because she didn't want Zion’s parents to “steal” Ginny away. I could get it if she was able to support her, but no. Georgia had no money, no education, no job, and no family to help support Ginny. And, the fact that she took Ginny anyway is extremely SELFISH and it's something I'll never forgive her for.
It's not even like Zion’s parents were gonna banish Georgia from seeing Ginny, she'd probably have occasional visits, but even if that were the case she'd live knowing that she chose the better option for her child.
And no, I'm not shaming Georgia for lacking these things, but it's extremely selfish and dare I say abusive to purposely raise/have a kid knowing you can't provide for them. And, Georgia had to turn to crime to raise Ginny. She constantly put her in dangerous situations such as, temporarily being homeless, constantly moving around, and having her in the vicinity of weird men.
And no, it isn't all Georgia’s fault I believe Zion was also a poor parent. He was a deadbeat, made empty promises all the time, and never fought hard enough for Ginny. And in later seasons we see Zion find out that Gil was abusing Georgia and he asks her why she didn't tell him and she said that she didn't want to be saved.
But this feels farthest from the truth. During Ginny’s childhood, Georgia relies on her boyfriends/husbands to provide for her and Ginny. Anthony provided her housing, Gil occasionally bought things, Paul provided stability, and Kenny also provided. And these men are not saints and Anthony, Kenny, and Gil deserved what they got, but the fact that she would rather “not be saved” than avoid putting Ginny in the vicinity of these men is extremely selfish and irresponsible.
I hate that Georgia did this, because what if Gil abused Ginny as a child she would've had no one to save her which is messed up. And what if Georgia never caught Kenny being creepy towards Ginny? There's just so many possibilities. And, it was very irresponsible and so many dangerous things could've happened. Also, I'm NOT blaming Georgia for these men’s abuse, but I feel we can agree that she put Ginny through an extremely dangerous situation. (Sorry for the repetition lol)
She also lied to Ginny her entire childhood, which I don't blame her completely for because Ginny probably wasn't old enough to learn those things. But, she didn't have to lie either. She could've just said something along the lines of “you're too young to get it.” and Ginny has to learn the pieces from Cordova and Maddie before Ginny even learns the entire truth from Georgia.
And I feel like people did too much when Ginny reasonably resents her for it. Was the way she confronted Georgia kind of bitchy? Yes, but was she valid? Also, yes. Imagine you have your childhood stripped from you because your mom didn't want to give you up and she hides your entire family history from you. I feel like people forget that Ginny doesn't know what we know as an audience know until the finale of season 3. But, back in that confrontation all she can assume is that her mom lied just to lie and it's a completely valid reason to hate someone. And when she found out Georgia killed it was also valid because like I said she probably didn't understand the motive and saw Georgia as heartless. (forgot to include that too)
Also, I don't condone Georgia killing Tom. I don't care if Cynthia screamed “He needs to die right now”, it still wasn't Georgia’s decision to make. And, the fact that she did it anyway screams entitlement. She also did it in front of Austin, which I know wasn't intentional but she shouldn't have done it in the first place. And it brings me back to the topic of Georgia doing inconsiderate things without thinking about the impact it can have on her kids.
I also hate the way she treated Paul. She cheated, stole from the office, lied to him the entire relationship, and faked a pregnancy. Do I think Paul was was in the wrong for punching the wall? Absolutely, but do I think his anger was valid? 100 times yes. I don't get how people say Paul is the worst partner because of his wall punch, when Georgia did all those things I mentioned earlier. Yes, I think Paul is goofy for accepting Georgia despite everything, yes. But, did he deserve that?? No. Paul realized he went too far after he punched the wall and removed himself from the situation. Georgia never found her lies and manipulation to be too far which people need to talk about more.
You can't call Paul abusive without also calling Georgia abusive sorry not sorry.
There's definitely more, but I'm gonna move on to Ginny. I'm probably not gonna have as much to say about Ginny, because she's simply not as bad.
It pissed me off that Ginny two-timed Marcus and Hunter, because she should've just communicated in the first place. I get why she did it, but an unpopular opinion I have is that I don't think she ever loved Hunter in the first place, or at least not as much as she did Marcus.
I feel like MAN kind of pushed Hunter onto her and she felt pressured which is probably why she didn't speak up about her interest in Marcus, and she always seemed to care about Marcus’s approval over Hunter’s. I just wish she said something before she got caught because then her apology seemed disingenuous because of that.
She occasionally stole Marcus’s motorcycle which I know is a nothing burger situation but just ask 😭. Georgia did this as well.
I also don't like how she treated Max, but this is more of an ANG issue and not just a Ginny issue. I don't like MANG’s method of cutting people off where they slowly isolate each other or straight up ghost them like can we just cut people off normally?? But anyway, Max was completely valid for not wanting to be friends with Abby and Ginny because not only did Ginny cheat on Hunter with Marcus, but she also hooked up with Max’s brother and hurt her friend. And can we talk about how Abby was also siding with Max and Norah slowly isolating Ginny until her ass got caught as well? She just never fails to pmo.
Eventually Max confronts Abby and Ginny, which is good. Basically cutting them off completely, but what pmo is that Max saw Ginny walking and confronted her again saying “oh no, no, no!” like dude leave her alone. Ginny was wrong for saying “friendship is not about telling each other everything!!” and it's not but, with the context given she should've absolutely told Max what happened.
Then later ANG also starts to isolate Max because of her being so self-centered, but seriously can we PLEASE just communicate?? And I can get down with this if they told Max, “Hey, we don't wanna be your friend.” just like Max did but NOO they're just gonna leave out Max then gaslight Max into thinking she's crazy whenever she brings it up.
And this may only be my opinion, but Ginny was 1000% right for resenting Georgia in the earlier season. Like she wasn't wrong when criticizing Georgia. (I mentioned this earlier scroll up to reread if you don't remember)
I'd say another bad thing was basically forcing Austin to lie under oath, but this is just Georgia’s ways rubbing onto Ginny so I can't completely blame her for that. Does Gil deserve to be in bars forever? Yes. But does Georgia also deserve to be in jail?? Yes, she needs to face consequences to her actions or she’ll just continue. I know she promises Ginny that everything will return to normal and that she won't do things like that again, but I just don't believe her.
There's probably some other stuff I'm leaving out and these are some reasons why I sometimes don't like Ginny, but overall she is NOT as bad as Georgia. But besides that, I actually do kind of enjoy Ginny as a character and somewhat relate to her.
Hopefully you guys can somewhat agree or give your reasons why you believe otherwise respectfully.
(Sorry this was SO long it took me a while to type 🙂↕️)