Sydney Sweeney

[Teenytwo]

I keep seeing posts on my SM about Sydney and the controversy behind her advertisement for some jeans. I’ve seen multiple posts about it being controversial but I can’t understand why, she’s got a low cut top on but I wouldn’t consider it low enough to cause the attention it’s getting. Please can someone tell me what I have missed?

If it is something really obvious and I’m being an idiot I promise I’m not being goady, I genuinely can’t figure it out.

Yep and it works.

I've priced some up today. Not because I think I'll look like SS but because I support an anti woke product.

From what I have seen people are reacting the way they are because its hitting/hinting on the eugenics theme when theres a lot of racial / ICE crimes going on in America at the moment.

Wow. I'm about 80% woke (probably lose a few points for being GC), and I don't find this advert offensive in the slightest. I'm brown-skinned, dark haired and dark eyes. I think I have pretty good genes, aesthetically speaking. Sydney Sweeney also has great genes, aesthetically speaking. Of course, there's more to a person's worth than what they look like, but most people would agree that she's very beautiful, and that's mostly down to her genes.
Don't see the issue at all 🤷🏽‍♀️

I suspect that some of the scandal has been manufactured by American Eagle. Others have now run with it. So much publicity based on one campaign.

I was just surprised when I realised where I know her from, Handmaid's Tale.

100% this. ^ Some people will scrabble in the mud for hours to try to find a reason to be offended. 🙄

Nothing to see here. 😎

Yep, the young girl whose husband (that she was forced to marry) didn't love her, so she had an affair, and she and the man she was seeing were both executed by drowning. Very dark.

I'd never heard of her so googled to see what she looks like.
I don't find her beautiful at all actually . A very unattractive mouth and quite weird looking.
I've not seen the advert but I do object to being " told" someone one is beautiful . It truly is in the eye of the beholder.
I think the genes/ jeans really does come over as promoting racial superiority.

You’ve never heard of eugenics before?!

Oh I’d never have recognised her.

Wow, what a rude thing to say about her.

And the irony of your post!

Yeah we've all heard of eugenics. But that's not what's going on here.

Well actually I wouldn't normally comment on someone's looks.

But so many posters on this thread are talking about how " beautiful" she is.
I thought that her being " beautiful" was somehow central to the whole thing. How she actually looks. Whether she is blonde haired/blue eyed or some other combination of supposed beauty.

So it's apparently OK for other posters to comment on how they perceive her to look because they buy into her as an example of beauty but it's not ok for me to comment on her looks because I don't buy into it?
I think there is a word for not allowing someone to have a different opinion.

The OP very clearly says she’s never heard of it.

Whatever the intention is, it's a really poorly judged ad given current social context in the USA

Well, the jeans are sold out so apparently not!

It's just a play on words. Can't see what all the fuss is about

I can see the appeal of these adverts. A healthy looking pretty girl who hasn’t had any work done and isn’t wearing so much make up that you can’t tell what she looks like. It makes a change from the lip filler / Khardashian stuff that was around a while ago.

The person being quoted (and questioned) said that they had never heard of eugenics. Hence, the question.

No I hadn’t heard of eugenics, not something that was covered in school and it’s not the type of thing that I would research/read about in my spare time generally.

In a nutshell. Without demonstrating the required amount of self-loathing necessary for white people these days.

The only racists I can identify in this situation are those shouting eugenics.

Don't these people have any actual issues to get worked up about? War, famine etc? FFS.

People are saying it’s Nazi. Which is ironic because there are people espousing ACTUAL Nazi ideologies that nobody seems too pressed about, such as telling Jews we need to wear yellow stars again and resurrecting old blood libels.

For some reason she seems to be a celeb that it is ok to hate on.

I think it's absolutely barmy. I don't use the term woke but if anything is woke nonsense, it's this. Total storm in a teacup.

Her genes do make her beautiful. Many women of other ethnicities also have incredible genes that make them equally or more beautiful. Saying someone has good genes does not imply you wish to end other blood lines FFS.