{"id":140,"date":"2019-07-25T15:50:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T14:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/?p=55417"},"modified":"2025-02-07T17:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T17:06:13","slug":"blown-away-fans-label-deborah-transgender-and-terf-after-feminism-fuelled-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2019\/07\/25\/blown-away-fans-label-deborah-transgender-and-terf-after-feminism-fuelled-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Blown Away season 1 winner controversy: Blown Away and TERF debate engulfs Deborah&#8217;s feminism-fuelled win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Blown Away first came to <a href=\"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/netflix-reality-shows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Netflix<\/span><\/a>, no one could&#8217;ve ever predicted it could cause this much drama online and on social media.<\/p>\n<p>After Deborah Czeresko took home the crown in the final episode &#8211; and the huge prize of $60,000 and an artist&#8217;s residency at the Corning Museum of Glass &#8211; fans of the show have taken to the internet in protest.<\/p>\n<p>And things have turned quite nasty.\u00a0Who knew a glass blowing competition could stir up this much drama?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what happened after Deborah won Blown Away and why viewers are protesting her win with a change.org petition that already has over 1,000 signatures!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/whats-on\/netflix-will-there-be-a-season-2-of-blown-away-start-date-and-more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Netflix: Will there be a season 2 of Blown Away? Start date and more!<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Deborah Czeresko wins Blown Away season 1<\/h3>\n<p>Deborah was one of the most acclaimed glass artists entering the competition, with the most experience in the field. The 57-year-old artist has been a visiting artist around the world since she started working as a glassblower in 1987.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the series, <a href=\"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/tag\/deborah-czeresko\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Deborah Czeresko<\/span><\/a> was vocal about how she wanted to be a role model and inspiration for women working in male-dominated trades such as glassblowing.<\/p>\n<p>But her vocalness has not gone down well, with many branding her arrogant and &#8216;braggy&#8217;.<\/p>\n<h3>The feminism-fuelled debate<\/h3>\n<p>Deborah was vocal about her feminist ideologies and incorporated much of her own experience as a woman and a lesbian into her work.<\/p>\n<p>This has angered both misogynistic men and libfems &#8211; liberal feminists.<\/p>\n<p>She has been labelled a horrendous array of offensive swear words online, with some viewers incorrectly calling her transgender.<\/p>\n<p>Many thought Deborah to be gender non-conforming (GNC) throughout the show. Although this was questioned as Deborah made a comment about chromosomes in an episode.<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/tag\/blown-away\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Blown Away<\/span><\/a>\u00a0final, Deborah described the egg she created &#8211; representing an ova &#8211; as &#8220;typically female-oriented&#8221; and talked about the binaries of masculinity and femininity, resulting in accusations of Deborah being a TERF &#8211; trans-exclusionary radical feminist.<\/p>\n<p>Many believed the judges were pandering to identity politics when they chose Deborah as the winner.<\/p>\n<h3>Petition kicks off<\/h3>\n<p>&#8216;Clayton Badger&#8217; started a petition on Change.org for Marblemedia to &#8216;Reverse Deborah&#8217;s win on season 1 of Blown Away&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The petition states that Deborah&#8217;s work on Blown Away was not of &#8216;high calibre art&#8217; or as good as Janusz Pozniak&#8217;s and that she used feminism to claim the win.<\/p>\n<p>But really the petition is about her feminism adding that &#8220;the winner of the show should have been decided on ability and skill rather than apparent political agendas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They aimed to reach 1,500 signatures on their petition and have already by Thursday, July 25th reached over 1,300. You can find the petition\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/blown-away-tv-show-reverse-deborah-s-win-on-season-1-of-blown-away\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">here.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>WATCH BLOWN AWAY SERIES 1 ON NETFLIX NOW<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>SUBSCRIBE AND READ THE NEW REALITY TITBIT MAGAZINE\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/flipboard.com\/@RealityTitibit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Blown Away first came to Netflix, no one could&#8217;ve ever predicted it could cause this much drama online and on social media. After Deborah Czeresko took home the crown in the final episode &#8211; and the huge prize of $60,000 and an artist&#8217;s residency at the Corning Museum of Glass &#8211; fans of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249734242,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1358],"tags":[1438],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-netflix"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/realityshrine\/2019\/07\/25\/blown-away-fans-label-deborah-transgender-and-terf-after-feminism-fuelled-win\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Blown Away season 1 winner controversy: Blown Away and TERF debate engulfs Deborah&#8217;s feminism-fuelled win","url":"http:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2019\/07\/25\/blown-away-fans-label-deborah-transgender-and-terf-after-feminism-fuelled-win\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2019\/07\/25\/blown-away-fans-label-deborah-transgender-and-terf-after-feminism-fuelled-win\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"News","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eve Edwards"}],"creator":["Eve Edwards"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Reality Shrine","logo":"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-mX3_1x3z.png"},"keywords":["netflix"],"dateCreated":"2019-07-25T14:50:18Z","datePublished":"2019-07-25T14:50:18Z","dateModified":"2025-02-07T17:06:13Z"},"rendered":"<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"wp-parsely-metadata\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"headline\":\"Blown Away season 1 winner controversy: Blown Away and TERF debate engulfs Deborah&#8217;s feminism-fuelled win\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/thetab.com\\\/realityshrine\\\/2019\\\/07\\\/25\\\/blown-away-fans-label-deborah-transgender-and-terf-after-feminism-fuelled-win\\\/\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/thetab.com\\\/realityshrine\\\/2019\\\/07\\\/25\\\/blown-away-fans-label-deborah-transgender-and-terf-after-feminism-fuelled-win\\\/\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"url\":\"\"},\"articleSection\":\"News\",\"author\":[{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"name\":\"Eve Edwards\"}],\"creator\":[\"Eve Edwards\"],\"publisher\":{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"name\":\"Reality Shrine\",\"logo\":\"https:\\\/\\\/realitytvshrine.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/02\\\/cropped-mX3_1x3z.png\"},\"keywords\":[\"netflix\"],\"dateCreated\":\"2019-07-25T14:50:18Z\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-07-25T14:50:18Z\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-02-07T17:06:13Z\"}<\/script>","tracker_url":"https:\/\/cdn.parsely.com\/keys\/realitytvshrine.com\/p.js"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/249734242"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9097,"href":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/9097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}