Netflix viewers are ‘boycotting’ the latest rom-com to hit the streaming platform, after some suggest that it follows a ‘disgusting concept.’
A new Netflix rom-com is facing backlash over its portrayal of, what has been branded as, a problematic relationship.
It premiered on the streaming service on August 1, and despite soaring to third spot in the global top 10 films, some people have said the story is ‘disgusting.’
The official synopsis of the film reads: “Anna, an ambitious young American woman, sets out for Oxford University to fulfill a childhood dream, has her life completely on track — until she meets a charming and clever local who profoundly alters both of their lives.”
And while the plot appears to be a harmless romance, the ‘charming and clever’ local isn’t just that – he’s also her professor at the prestigious university.
It’s based on Julia Whelan’s novel with the same name, but when the fiction was released in 2018, romantic relationships between students and professors in the U.K. were perfectly okay.
Guidance has since been issued prohibiting these relationships from developing.
Kaelyn Grace Apple, a PhD candidate currently studying at Oxford, posted a video titled ‘Stop Romanticizing Student/Professor Relationships.’
In the video, she explained why she is ‘boycotting’ the film, despite its popularity.
Making her stance clear, she said: “As somebody who in 2019 experienced s**ual harassment at the hands of a lecturer who was meant to to be my educator, I will say that seeing a student-professor relationship being promoted on the big screen as a romance is something that I do not support and don’t think that you should be supporting either.”
And while both characters in the film are of the legal consenting age by many years, Apple noted that the concept of consent changes when power dynamics are at play.
She explained: “The idea of consent is all good and dandy until you’re in a position in which the student in this relationship decides that they no longer consent to this relationship.
“The person that they’ve had a relationship with, their lecturer, their professor, the person responsible for their grades and education, has control over their reputation, their destiny, their treatment in the classroom, as well as their determinative grades at the end of their term.”
“I feel deeply concerned for the potential exploitation of students,” she added.
And she’s not the only one who is taking this stance.
Talking about My Oxford Year, another view said: “Though it is definitely disgusting as a premise/story, I don’t think it shouldn’t exist, but rather market it as what it actually is… Which is not a romance.
“I can’t believe Oxford actually allowed that though, that’s so grossly wild?”
Another added: “Literally a disgusting concept and I thought we got over that as a society.
“Netflix makes it easy to not renew my subscription.”
Watch the trailer for My Oxford Year here…
My Oxford Year is available to stream on Netflix now.
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