In the tweet, Green typecast the critic as a man-hating lesbian after she negatively reviewed a recent performance.
Andrea Swensson is City Pages magazine's music editor. She wrote a rather unflattering review of Green's Thursday night performance in Minneapolis, calling various elements of the show "gross," "forgettable" and "inept."
In the retaliatory tweet, which has since been deleted, Green wrote to Swensson: "I respect your criticism, but be fair! People enjoyed last night! I'm guessing you're gay? And my masculinity offended you? Well f**k you!"
While we get the reference to Green's hit song "F**k You," we also see how LGBT folks and their friends and supporters might have been offended by Green's remarks, which he says were intended as a joke.
Green told US Weekly, "[Swensson] was very critical of me. At the time I didn't even know what gender the person was. I was being a little outspoken that night... I assumed that whoever it was would assume it was all in good fun. It wasn't taken so well, apparently."