The American Eagle Sydney Sweeney ad (3 Viewers)

[Courtjester]

She was really good in Immaculate. My wife made me watch it, but it was an enjoyable viewing experience.

I didn't know she was in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

 

[-OZ-]

User name checked out?

thought it was a funny play on your user name and avatar. Guess I missed.

 

[rockaction]

She was really good in Immaculate. My wife made me watch it, but it was an enjoyable viewing experience.

I didn't know she was in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Don’t feel lonely. I had no idea either. I liked that movie, too. I’ll have to look up who she was.

 

[Major]

She was really good in Immaculate. My wife made me watch it, but it was an enjoyable viewing experience.

I didn't know she was in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Don’t feel lonely. I had no idea either. I liked that movie, too. I’ll have to look up who she was.

Same. Would bet the house she was part of Manson's harem.

 

[rockaction]

She was really good in Immaculate. My wife made me watch it, but it was an enjoyable viewing experience.

I didn't know she was in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Don’t feel lonely. I had no idea either. I liked that movie, too. I’ll have to look up who she was.

Same. Would bet the house she was part of Manson's harem.

Yeah. I would think the main one. They were all sort of grotesque, though. Tarantino with the hairy toes on the brunette Pitt is driving around. Or was it her legs? Whatever it was he lingered the camera on it. Foot fetish. Pervert.

I kid. Kind of.

 

[FarFromHome]

I watched someone say her commercial had racial undertones. Smh

 

[Mister CIA]

I've made up my mind on this matter.

 

[Terminalxylem]

and can somebody give me the nutshell of this current outrage, please.

I don't social media, and keep my news intake to... news.

Basically a physically blessed woman is doing a commercial for a clothing brand and some folks are outraged

Also, the jeans v. genes joke could be taken to be suggesting that the best "genes" are blonde haired and blue eyed if you want to overthink it.

If you want to overthink it more, she's a natural brunette. But nobody in this wave of outrage is over-thinking anything....or even really thinking.

If you want to overthink it that makes it even worse because they are saying people should deny their true self to conform to this specific standard of "good". I think like all things, it's somewhere in between. People are probably overreacting but also I don't believe nobody involved anywhere in the process of planning and making this didn't also see this connection and either agree with the concept or like the idea that it could cause controversy. I find it hard to care much anymore for any of it.

I just saw the photo of the ad. Are we really calling this 'blonde' now? As a natural blond, I think that's really stretching it. At best it's brunette with blonde highlights.

Besides, the only people looking at her hair are straight women and gay men.

I wasn’t aware she had a head

 

[FarFromHome]

I haven't been following the thread, but I was pleasantly surprised with how soft and shiny her hair looked. Well done girl.

 

[rockaction]

In fairness to the "loony" people making a big deal out of it, heritable traits have crept back into the politically adjacent discourse in an unusually overt (I called it "subtle but that is exactly the wrong word here) and problematic way. I'm not one of the "loons," but I get what they're reacting to. It's quite sad that it is this way, but I get why the radicals have their antennae up. I just wish we could debate it all like adults instead of the hysterical posturing and shaming of both sides of the debate that is likely happening on social media right now.

I mean, the commercial is almost certainly not meant to do what the people who are complaining about it accuse it of, in my opinion, but on social media the issue of genes, genetics, and possible nods to old-style eugenics is front and center among those who are more political in their outlook and more radically inclined within it.

eta* Oh, my word, I just saw the Good Morning America clip. Let's bury this for the stupidity that it is. I get if some radically left-wing randos or girls that reed Teen Vogue for the articles (same thing) want to post a TikTok video where they dance, shake, level with their audience, and complain, but if this is a soft news story for people that watch morning television then I want out. This is lunacy to cover this and frame it in that way. Every time I stick up for something that seems too ludicrous to be mainstreamed it turns out to be almost exactly that—it turns out to be ludicrously mainstreamed.

 

[Dan Lambskin]

and can somebody give me the nutshell of this current outrage, please.

I don't social media, and keep my news intake to... news.

Basically a physically blessed woman is doing a commercial for a clothing brand and some folks are outraged

Also, the jeans v. genes joke could be taken to be suggesting that the best "genes" are blonde haired and blue eyed if you want to overthink it.

If you want to overthink it more, she's a natural brunette. But nobody in this wave of outrage is over-thinking anything....or even really thinking.

If you want to overthink it that makes it even worse because they are saying people should deny their true self to conform to this specific standard of "good". I think like all things, it's somewhere in between. People are probably overreacting but also I don't believe nobody involved anywhere in the process of planning and making this didn't also see this connection and either agree with the concept or like the idea that it could cause controversy. I find it hard to care much anymore for any of it.

I just saw the photo of the ad. Are we really calling this 'blonde' now? As a natural blond, I think that's really stretching it. At best it's brunette with blonde highlights.

Besides, the only people looking at her hair are straight women and gay men.

I wasn’t aware she had a head

That’s someone’s daughter, guy

 

[Ilov80s]

She was really good in Immaculate. My wife made me watch it, but it was an enjoyable viewing experience.

I didn't know she was in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Don’t feel lonely. I had no idea either. I liked that movie, too. I’ll have to look up who she was.

Same. Would bet the house she was part of Manson's harem.

Yep, the Manson crew was loaded with what are now pretty successful young stars: Sydney Sweeney, Mikey Madison who just won Best Actress, Lena Dunham. Austin Butler, Margaret Qualley, Dakota Fanning, Maya Hawke.

 

[Zow]

I just thought it was a clever word play for jeans/genes. Nothing more......nothing less.

As I expressed earlier, I can where yeah, maybe, the ad wizards should have seen how this can be interpreted. A blonde hair, blued eyed girl with good "genes" could be seen the wrong way by people who are looking for reasons to be outraged.

I admit that when I first watched the ad (though I knew it was "controversial" and therefore I was subconsciously looking for controversy) I did somewhat cringe when the above occurred.

 

[Zow]

This is very troubling, I'm kinda surprised you all are making light of it. LINK

I mean....if a professor from like the 12th best college in NJ says it, it MUST be true.