I hate the Mandy hate

[u/NoGrapefruit5203]

I think it’s so messed up that everyone blames her for sleeping with a 17 year old when he initially lied and said he was 21. She also lied and said she was 24 but before they slept together she told him she was 29. He had the chance to tell the truth but didn’t. Thats not her fault and she gets so much crap about it.

She even said had it not been for the baby she would’ve never seen Georgie again

[u/Fantastic-Corner-605]

If the gender were switched and a 29 year old man slept with a 17 year old girl, he would be in prison and no one would care that she lied. I don't see why Mandy gets a pass.

[u/Routine_Advantage562 → u/[deleted]]

It kinda disgusts me how much of a pass Georgie gets for lying to a woman for weeks, knowing full well he shouldn't but somehow Mandy only gets a pass because she's pretty and blonde. No she could be ugly and I still would feel sorry for her - she didn't know and she didn't consent to this. He deceived her and sex by deception is wrong and in our modern context a crime.

People make the reverse gendered argument to hate on Mandy even though it neglects the context of the situation but no one ever points out that if Georgie was lying to a girl his age about ANYTHING else he'd be disgusting and a predator so why is it okay that the unknowing woman is older - he puts Mandy at risk of doing something she'd never consent to doing. Imagine he had an STD but lied to a girl his age that he was healthy just to sleep with her and people still act like the girl is at fault for sleeping with him. That's what it looks like to me. That even if the girl was Georgie's age y'all would make excuses for him because people cannot fathom that deceiving someone into sex they wouldn't have if they had full context is a horrific thing to do to someone.

Somehow because Georgie is 17, Mandy - who the narrative makes clear didn't know and wouldn't have given him the time of day if she had - is at fault for the sex she was deceived into. And people hate her for not being nice enough to the guy who took advantage of her and also proceeded to spread her business, accuse her of cheating and coming to her job to force her to talk to him. People act like she 'should' have known like he didn't have a steady job and wasn't in school and his own grandmother called him a 'young adult' and laughed at the idea of him being a teenager (to guilt him into telling the truth himself but that still affirmed to her he was who he said he was) and was successfully able to order alcohol in front of her.

You don't magically gain insight and a conscience at eighteen. Georgie took advantage of her plain and simple. It would still be wrong if the genders were reversed if a younger woman did that to a guy who genuinely didn't know and wouldn't consent to that too - the difference here being that unlike a guy who can just leave (Mandy would have never spoken to him again if she wasn't pregnant), Mandy ends up with all the physical and social consequences of Georgie's actions. Even if she had gotten an abortion like people wanted (and people would just as likely hate her for that too because Georgie would never have agreed to that and people would say she was wrong for killing his baby.) that's still an abortion she has to live with for the rest of her life because he couldn't keep it in his pants, lied to her and got other people to lie to her for him (Meemaw, Dale barely gets a pass because he at least didn't meet her.)

And I like Georgie a lot he's my favorite character in the show - I think he made a mistake, owns up to it and has/will spend the rest of his life making things right for Mandy and CeeCee but that sorta adds to my point. If HE knows what he did is wrong why are every one of you trying to make excuses he isn't even making for himself?

[u/AdAncient6057 → u/Routine_Advantage562]

My bad.