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once upon a pick-me: a sydney sweeney story · gasp! the pod

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Welcome back you little bitches. That's probably too mean.
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Welcome back guys to gasp the pod.
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Welcome back. Welcome to season 3.
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I'm so fucking happy we get my wine and let's get into our
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topic, shall we? Cheers.
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It's all over social media. It's all over the news.
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Even President Trump, for some reason, is fucking talking about
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it. It's on the president's desk
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now. I probably shouldn't have called
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him the president, because I barely think he is.
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What are we talking about today? What is the fucking drama is the
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Sydney Sweeney American Eagle jeans controversy?
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This week we're going to dissect where American Eagle went wrong.
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From their Instagrams, from their, from their billboards.
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But it's not just American Eagle's fault.
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It's also Sydney Sweeney herself, though.
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So we're doing a look back at all of Sydney Sweeney's major
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controversies. We're going to talk about why
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Patreon. All right, let's get to the
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topic. So we're talking about American
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Eagle. For people who have been into an
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American Eagle store in the last like few years, you will see and
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notice that American Eagles new branding, I mean, at least
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before this whole Sydney Sweeney shit was like pro diversity,
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diversity in terms of like race and having not just white people
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on, and also diversity in terms of like body type.
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So I thought that was really great of American Eagle.
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Something's happening and it's a conservative switch away from
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that and we need to be paying attention to this conservative
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new type of branding for everything.
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Trad wives, like fucking corporate sponsors pulling out
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of pride. These brands now appealing to
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like MAGA people because they see that that's popular and they
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want to appeal to that. Like, brands don't actually care
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about us. So anyways, they had a whole new
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era of like, body positivity and diversity and this was actually
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like, beneficial for them. A Forbes article from 2020 says
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American Eagle's brand, built on body positivity and inclusion,
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is slowly edging out sexy supermodel Victoria's Secret.
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Like, So that's the idea. This was working for them
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because it was hip and popular to be like, including diversity,
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and consumers wanted that. Now there's so much of A push
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towards conservatism that a lot of people now are, like, being
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red pills, OK, Especially Gen. Z.
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If you're Gen. Z, I'm scared, like I'm scared
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for you guys. It's now not popular anymore.
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So that's why they kind of switched up is my theory.
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What's also ironic about this whole thing is that it's not
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like their creative director is a man.
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It's a woman. And her name is Jennifer Foyle.
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She's the executive creative director and also leads
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marketing. So like you would think this
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seems like a very patriarchal ad, right, That men made.
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And yes, the CEO is a man, but it's like people in corporate
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positions, they usually don't fucking care.
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So even if it's a woman, she doesn't care about making this
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pro woman. She wanted to make money because
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that's their job. And that's kind of this
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unfortunate realization. OK, let's talk about the ad
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itself and go through each like Instagram post and each thing
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that was so fucking weird and fucked up.
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There's a lot of little teasers they put in their social media
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to show this campaign with Sydney Sweeney.
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And just like basic ground knowledge for those who weren't
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aware, I mean, you have to be living under a rock to not be
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aware. But pretty much American Eagle
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did this campaign with Sydney Sweeney.
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And what's so ironic too about it is that there was a certain
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pair of jeans that had like a butterfly on it.
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And proceeds from the sales of those jeans went to domestic
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violence awareness and like a crisis line, very sexualized
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campaign and also a eugenics campaign.
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And I also want to make it clear that I don't think like, female
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sexuality is the problem, but it's not pitched that way.
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And there's a very big difference.
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And a lot of people will try to gaslight us and be like, no,
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sexuality in general is always pro woman.
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There is a huge difference in it being empowering and it being
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like a woman's choice and it being framed and catered towards
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men and not actually catered for women.
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So anyways, they did this campaign together and Sydney
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Sweeney was in all of these advertisements pretty much
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promoting American Eagle. So she was on billboards.
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She was on like their like website teasers.
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She's like all over everywhere. So this was more than just like
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a little sponsorship. She did this huge campaign with
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them. And they also must have thought
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she's going to be perfect for this, which is funny because
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let's remember Sidney Sweeney's reputation before this.
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It's not like she was this queen body positivity, like women
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loved her kind of a way. She was kind of known as like
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pick me catering towards men vibe and men love her.
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So that's her reputation. And then American Eagle, you
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know, sees this reputation and says perfect for this campaign,
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which is why I do think it was not directed towards feminists,
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women who want like body positivity.
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That's why I think it was catered towards MAGA, whether
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that's men or trad wife girls in general, that then feel like
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they have to defend Sydney Sweeney and it's just so
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strange. The whole thing is so strange.
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I'm just having a hard time believing that their target
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audience was women when they were going into this, where they
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were like, we want women to buy these jeans either.
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They fully do not understand women and they fucked up
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accidentally. I can't see how that's possible.
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Or B they were going after Wait there's there's actually ACB.
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They were going after a certain type of woman one that looks
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like me but is not actually have the same values that I do.
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White straight, not me, white straight women that are like
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trad wife conservative, pro Trumpy and not even pro Trumpy
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but just like anti woke and then see men.
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And we should remember, like American Eagle does actually
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have men's clothes, which people forget really.
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In this campaign, it seems like they're trying to make Sydney
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Sweeney something that she is not, or at least that's the veil
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they're using to cover their real intentions because Sidney
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Sweeney is not someone that women necessarily look up to.
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Now, you can argue if that's fair or not, but that's just
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kind of the truth. So that's why I'm confused at
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her being at the center of the campaign, regardless of all of
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the eugenics stuff. Also, just eugenics isn't cute.
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It never has been. And I understand if like you're
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not chronically, if you're not chronically online, and if
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you're also not realizing that this world and like America like
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sucks right now, I can see how you wouldn't have picked up on
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this, especially if like you're a man.
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But like, once you tune into misogyny, it's everywhere.
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And it's unfortunately, like all you can really see once you
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really start seeing it. I also just want to tell a very
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quick American Eagle story that I think is like so funny.
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And that made me like hate American Eagle like 4 years ago.
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So actually this is way longer. I was in college, so I was like
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maybe 21. All right, at this point, I have
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boobs. This is relevant.
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I'm 21, right? I am a woman, pretty much.
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I'm over 18. I walk into American Eagle by
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myself. I go into the underwear and bra
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section. I go into the lingerie section.
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OK, I'm just browsing around, looking around.
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This woman comes up to me. She's probably in her 30s.
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She goes, hey honey, do you need help trying bras?
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Is this your first time shopping for bras?
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I'm 21 years old now. I understand if you may have
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thought I was younger than that and maybe you thought I was like
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what, 17 or 18? Even if I was in high school,
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would that be my first time shopping for shopping for bras?
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Oh my God, I was like so fucking pissed.
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Just like so condescending. I don't know.
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I've hated American Eagle ever since that experience.
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Just weird. And this was like a sales
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associate, obviously. OK, I want to go through some of
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the main posts from American Eagle in this campaign with
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Sidney Sweeney that people had issues with.
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This first one is dot dot dot dot dot ominous.
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And also makes you think they're not just talking about jeans.
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And she got them at AE worn by Sidney.
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Wanted by everyone. You mean men?
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She's notoriously like men love her, right?
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But everyone is just not true. Also, guys, I just pulled this
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up on Instagram. What's so wild is it made me
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confirm I was 18. Is that an Instagram role or is
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this like or was this like put in place for Sidney Sweeney?
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Like that's kind of hilarious. So at this point, it's kind of
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confusing, right? This post, you're like, first of
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all, what do you mean jeans dot dot dot dot dot?
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And you're also, like, wanted by everyone.
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You mean sexually. Like, you can tell that they're
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playing off of this idea that, like, men want her, but this
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idea that women want to be her, No women has been like, oh, my
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God, I want what Sidney. Sidney is wearing.
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So it just doesn't even make any sense.
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And we also need to remember she's a white, straight, blonde
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girl. OK?
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I mean, she may be bisexual, but at this point, I don't even
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really care because she's a registered Republican.
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And we'll talk about that later. Wanted by everyone.
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It is not a problem to be blonde and white with blue eyes.
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That is not a problem when you add in this eugenic stuff and
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then also that like, Oh my God, everyone wants to be her.
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It has a tone of like everyone should want to be blonde, white
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with blue eyes. That's the tone.
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And it only gets worse with the more literal ads they put out.
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OK, so this next one is a video. So I can't actually play it for
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the podcast because the audio gets messed up.
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It's a video of her. The sound and background noise
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is turned all the way up. You can hear the zipper zipping
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and her like breathing. It's very sensual.
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And the caption is Sidney Sweeney in her sensory era.
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Like it's so obvious that like, they want us to be attracted to
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her and not in a WLW way. This is like four straight men.
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It's so confusing. And then it says, you know,
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their whole tagline, which is Sidney Sweeney has great jeans.
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And it's so fucking obvious that they're not talking about her
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jeans. It's so obvious that they they
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think women want her literal jeans to look like that.
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They think that men want her, which only half of that is true.
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Mind you. Another huge problem with this
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campaign is that the jeans don't even fit her at all.
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They don't look good. How is this an ad for women to
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want those jeans? Like nowhere in the ad is she
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displaying like how the jeans fit and make her feel they're
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falling off of her. It's so catered in a sexual way.
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It has nothing to do with the jeans.
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And then she says, I bet you want to try these jeans.
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How is that directed towards women?
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I just wish American Eagle would stop pretending like they're
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trying to cater anything towards women at this point.
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OK, let's move on. This next one is so weird.
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It looks like a soft porn video. And the way that she's just
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like, sighing and looking at the camera.
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And again, listen though, there's a way for her to do this
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that doesn't make it seem like it's porn.
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There's a way for her to film herself without it looking like
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like this. Then when the camera pans out,
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they I mean, they say the Sidney Sweeney has great genes again,
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but then she's holding a German shepherd dog.
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Why is this relevant? If you really want to go, you
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know, hardcore into the conspiracy theory that this is
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like Nazi eugenics, which I'm not opposed to, Let's maybe go
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down it. That feels like a dog whistle
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literally to like Nazis and like MAGA people.
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And then it'd be like she has great genes.
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It's it's so weird. Let's read some of the comments,
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OK, Some of the comments are critical of it.
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Like this comment says, like the German shepherd blonde hair and
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blue eyes. Come on, guys, This is so 1940s.
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Like I totally kind of see that it is giving 1940s and not just
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because she's blonde. It's the like wanting her jeans
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type shit of it all. What's so interesting is that
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like, I don't really think MAGA and like Republicans followed
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American Eagle and even cared about this campaign until
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progressives and like leftists and like, I don't know,
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feminists started critiquing it. And then they love to just say
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anything is like too woke and then they make it their entire
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personality. So what the fuck?
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So now I'm seeing all these comments being like, I love
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American Eagle now. Good to see something normal
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these days. What like as if wait as if
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someone that isn't blonde with blue eyes and is white is not
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normal it's just flat out fucking racist.
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And by the way these are like all men commenting like you
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never give a fuck about American Eagle.
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Also, let's talk about American Eagle.
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The name American Eagle sounds pretty far right to me.
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Someone needs to do a deep dive into like their funding and if
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they like somehow like donated to Donald Trump's campaign or
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something like that because I wouldn't be surprised.
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There's another comment that says bravo, American Eagle
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attractive models are back the way it should be.
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They're just racist. They never cared before.
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It's only because liberals hated it.
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They need to stop pretending like they actually care.
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How refreshing. Finally, we women are thrilled
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to see us represented beautifully.
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Oh fuck you, you white woman. You are fucking represented
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enough. Oh my God it's wild the reaction
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to this from MAGA people and how much they're pretending to like
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be obsessed with it only because like progressives hate it.
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The video that was like a race that is now like on YouTube and
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I can't find it anywhere in like A's website is the one that like
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everyone keeps lip syncing. So the camera pans up her body
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as she zips on her pants there. It's just so annoying that like
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we have to somehow explain what is so obvious and like women
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know the difference between like owning your body and like being,
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you know, showing off your body and like being sexual.
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And then a way of doing that that is that feels like it's
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from porn and cater towards men. We know the difference.
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We can see it, we can feel it. Sometimes you just can't explain
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that to people. But this feels soft porn esque
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and it just doesn't feel focused on the genes.
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Like, tell me why these jeans fit you when you like the fit of
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them. I never heard that at all, which
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is like the number one thing you want when you buy jeans.
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And these are women's jeans. So, she says in the voice over.
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Jeans are passed down from parents to offspring, often
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determining traits like hair color, personality, and even eye
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color. Let's pause.
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It is now clear that American Eagle is not talking about jeans
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with AJ, but they're obviously talking about jeans with AG.
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And she is now full on talking about her jeans.
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And American Eagle is now saying, I bet you want those
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jeans that she has, which are white blonde hair, blue eyes.
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It's giving weird. It's just weird.
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At minimum it's weird. And then she goes my jeans are
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blah, girl, we know you're not fucking talking about your
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fucking blue jeans, bitch. And I will say I got to be
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honest, I don't think Sidney Sweeney is very smart.
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So I don't really think she picked up on this.
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I'm not saying she gets like an excuse because I think she has a
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lot of issues that she had. Like she's done a lot of things
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that I don't love and we will go through that.
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It's just so obvious that this is about her genes.
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I mean, they, they make it very obvious.
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There's no arguing that it is only about genes with AJ because
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she's talking about genes that passed down from parents to
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offspring. Why the fuck is that even
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related to genes? And it would be one thing.
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I got to be honest, it would be a little bit different.
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And I still think you'll be fucked up.
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But like, it would be a little bit different if, like, women
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were obsessed with her and wanted to look like her.
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But when you add in the fact that she's like a registered
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Republican, she's white with blue eyes and blonde hair,
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talking about how everyone wants to like have her literal jeans
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and then she's holding like a German Shepherd, you can.
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It's jarring. It's jarring.
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A lot of people were saying that Sydney Sweeney's campaign is
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very similar and like almost like directly inspired by a
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Brooke Shields, a controversial Calvin Klein ad that she did.
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Brooke Shields was literally 15 when she did this ad, and she
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had been sexualized her entire career.
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It was fucking disgusting how men talk to her, what roles that
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she was, you know, kind of pushed into playing that were
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like way over sexual when she was an underage girl.
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And there's just so many issues with this campaign.
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And like, then you add on the fact that they're trying to
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like, raise money for domestic violence while they're kind of
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doing like soft porn. And they're also like mirroring
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an ad. The Brooke Shields when she was
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15. I don't understand how no one
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bought any of this and raised the red flag.
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And you know why no one did? It's because they probably
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didn't care. They probably did see a lot of
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issues with that. I bet a lot of people on the
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staff, small marketing people were like, wait, what?
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Oh, and didn't say anything because of course they didn't
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because they would get fired. Brands don't care about us.
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They care about making money and what the common public want.
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And right now, the majority of people are tribe wife,
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conservative men defenders and Sydney Sweeney defenders,
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apparently. Wait, the last thing we're going
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to talk about is the Billboard. This is a billboard that was put
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up and like, it's Sydney Sweeney wearing jeans that says Sydney
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Sweeney has great jeans with AG. She then crosses it out and
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writes jeans with AJ as if it couldn't be any more obvious
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that we're actually talking about her jeans with AG.
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It is very clear they're talking about Sydney Sweeney's jeans and
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again, the comments on these are a lot of MAGA people rushing to
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the comments because they just fucking hate progressives, I
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think more than we hate them. And I do think it's so fucking
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funny because it's like, why do you care?
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Great to see this is a comment. They're living in delusion.
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OK, great to see white young women are not forbidden anymore.
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Forbidden. Was I forbidden?
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All of this shit happened, people freaked out and a lot of
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people were saying OK, German eugenics.
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And by the way, if you guys don't know what eugenics is,
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pretty much this is the dictionary.com definition, the
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study of how to arrange reproduction with any human
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population to increase the occurrence of heritable
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characteristics started as desirable.
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So usually it's like, you know, wanting to make sure that
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there's enough white people. It's honestly, America has a
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terrible eugenics history and I took a really interesting class
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in college, but pretty much the reason why birth control was
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created and it was tested in other populations.
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It was tested in Puerto Rico's, tested in Taiwan, tested in
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India, a lot of different forms of birth control.
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And they did it on populations of color because they also
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wanted to decrease populations of non white people because of
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this fear that the white race is somehow, you know, losing its
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standing in the world. That is a genuine fear that a
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lot of Republicans have continues today.
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And unfortunately, the reason why like, birth control exists
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is due to a eugenics history. Black women were getting
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forcibly sterilized like throughout the 1900s because
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white men are scared of not having this majority of white
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people. That's just a fact.
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And it is a presence in like a lot of these conversations that
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they will never publicize like on TV.
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But it is happening in all of these far alt right Proud boy,
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you know, new KKK events that is rapidly taking over YouTube and
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all of these other online sources and red Pilling young
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people into it, which is scary. It's a whole scary thing.
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But this idea that like, oh, this is not happening, like, Oh
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my God, eugenics is just not happening.
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It is happening unfortunately. So whether American Eagle has
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like a Nazi on their marketing team or they're just going after
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like, you know, straight men and MAGA conservative tried wife
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women, we don't know. But all of this controversy
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happened. Progressives were like, this is
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sexist. This has undertones of eugenics.
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Where is American Eagle strategy right now?
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Who is their target audience? Is it women?
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All this happened. In response, American Eagle
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released a quote apology. I call it a quote apology
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because they didn't actually apologize.
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Here is their response quote. Sidney Sweeney has great jeans.
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End Quote is and always was about the jeans with AJ, her
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jeans, her story with AJ. We'll continue to celebrate how
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everyone wears their AE jeans with confidence their way.
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Great jeans look good on everyone.
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So that's hilarious because they're pretending like it it
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was and it is and always was about the jeans with the J when
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they actually have a billboard where it says jeans with AG and
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they talk about jeans being passed down from parents to
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offspring. Where'd that go?
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You can't just pretend like it didn't happen.
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Wild shit. And that makes me think that
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their marketing team did this purposely.
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They're not apologizing because they're not actually scared.
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And that scares me more because that shows that public they
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think is on their side or they're now appealing to the
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people that are on their side, right?
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Like they're not even trying to appeal to progressives anymore.
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They're probably going to be like, oh, this is making us
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money. So we're not going to try to be
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like, woke. And when I say woke, I just mean
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being normal, though. Then Donald Trump decided to be
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a part of all of this because he's got nothing else to do.
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And this is kind of random, you guys, but like last week I was
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on TMZTMZDMD me. This is related, I promise.
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TMZDMD me. And they're like, hi Haley and I
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was like, hi TMZ. And they're like, do you want to
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be on our show and talk about Taylor Swift?
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And I was like, of course I went on the show.
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And I was like, I just want to make sure that whatever I'm
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saying is not being twisted because it's TMZ, right?
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And as long as I say what I think and what I believe the
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morning of, they were like, we're actually not doing a
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Taylor Swift story. Can you talk about Donald Trump
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and Gayle King? And I was like, sure, because I
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can talk shit about Donald Trump.
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Pretty much the story is and was that I commented on.
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It's on my TikTok if you want to check out what I said on TMZ.
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But Donald Trump made this whole post on Truth Social.
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And I also missed the days when he used to not be allowed on
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fucking social media. What happened to that?
26:23
But he made this whole post about Gayle King, Taylor Swift,
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blah blah blah blah blah. Because guys, he pretty much
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effectively got Stephen Colbert cancelled.
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He is going after all the news. He wants to silence people that
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don't agree with him. And this is the post.
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Oh, and also he talked about Cindy Sweeney all in the same
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fucking paragraph. It's a long paragraph.
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Let me read it for you from the president.
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This is the president of the United States.
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Sydney Sweeney, a registered Republican, has the quote
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hottest ad out there. It's for American Eagle and the
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jeans are flying off the shelves.
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Go get them, Sydney. That's when you know you're in
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the wrong. On the other side of the Ledger,
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Jaguar did a stupid and seriously woke advertisement.
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OK blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
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Then Trump goes or just look at woke singer Taylor Swift.
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Ever since I alerted the world as to what she was by saying on
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truth that I can't stand her hate exclamation point, she was
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booed out of the Super Bowl and became no longer hot.
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OK, let's talk about that for a very, very, very quick second.
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A lot of people are saying, guys, Taylor Swift wouldn't be a
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Trump supporter because Trump hates her.
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I don't think that Taylor Swift is a Trump supporter.
27:36
I know that she hates Trump. I know that she doesn't like
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Trump. My point is that 'cause we know
27:42
that, why then is she hanging out with all of these MAGA
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people? I don't like like that.
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I don't think she's a MAGA. I just don't like that she's
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around them. Maybe she hates it too.
27:54
Maybe she can't get out of it. Maybe this is what she has to do
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with her boyfriend. I just don't like it.
27:58
Moving on. Then he says the tide has
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seriously turned. Being locust for losers.
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Being a Republican is what you want to be.
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Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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I hate the world we're living in.
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And also Trump talked about Gayle King and said Gayle King's
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career is over which I make a comment on on TMZ LMAO.
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Anyways, you know it's bad if Trump is defending you and
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Sydney Sweeney not having a response Right now you are
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pretty much like OK with Donald Trump using you as a political
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tool and MAGA people using you as a tool for racism.
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Because if you want to argue that the original ad wasn't
28:38
actually outwardly racist, now people are using it to become
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racist. So don't you want to stop that?
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And that's what's making me confirm in my brain that she
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doesn't give a fuck A or B is racist and is MAGA and is all
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these things. Also, Gayle King said that she,
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Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen and Stephen Colbert are in a
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group, you know, 'cause Trump hates all of them.
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And I'm like, does that mean group chat, 'cause that would be
29:01
so fucking iconic. And then also after all of this,
29:06
what's really interesting is that Beyoncé released a Levi's
29:10
ad, which is a great opportunity for her to be like, oh, look
29:14
what a good gene company can do. We're actually, you know, she
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looks hot and sexual, but the genes look good and it's not pro
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eugenics. I also want to add it is
29:24
possible for a woman who's blonde and with blue eyes and
29:28
blonde hair to like be in an ad in it not be racist and eugenics
29:32
focused. So that's the whole controversy.
29:34
I don't think Sydney Sweeney had any control over the design of
29:38
this ad. She did do it, however, in the
29:41
same where the Kendall Jenner, you know, did her Pepsi ad,
29:43
right? So you could give her a pass on
29:47
that. Again, I do think that she
29:48
should like, say something now because like the president is
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using her as a literal political tool.
29:55
But Sidney Sweeney, as I've kind of mentioned before, has now had
29:59
a reputation for the past few years as being a pick me girl
30:03
catering towards men and also Republican.
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Let's go into these controversies because she has
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really been on the brink of cancellation.
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I'm surprised during all these controversies that like, the
30:14
tide hasn't fully turned on her because she's still booking big
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ass movies. And listen, I don't think she
30:19
should go to jail. I do think she should now have
30:23
the reputation as being this maggot Republican and then not
30:26
be allowed to like perform in these queer progressive roles.
30:30
I don't think she should be booking these roles when she's
30:32
like playing a lesbian, for example, which we'll get in.
30:35
So let's talk about her being a registered Republican.
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What's really interesting about registering as a party in the US
30:44
is not every state requires it. And a lot of the times, like you
30:48
can just vote in the general election without even having to
30:51
register as a Republican. She registered in Florida, which
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she probably doesn't reside in all the time.
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And I feel like that was a strategic decision.
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So her registering as a Republican, she did this in June
31:05
2024, which is like a few months before this last presidential
31:10
election. OK, I actually just looked it
31:12
up. The Florida 2024 Republican
31:15
primary was in March. So I'm seeing that she was that
31:20
she registered in June 2024. So that means it was before the
31:24
general election, which means she probably voted for Trump.
31:27
And it's not 100% confirmation, but it's like girl and she
31:34
wherever she's living, which is probably Los Angeles, didn't
31:37
vote in California because she probably thought, you know, it's
31:39
going to go blue. So she probably voted in Florida
31:41
because she was worried it was going to go blue because I think
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she's a fucking MAGA. And that's probably why she's
31:45
not fucking speaking out against Trump guys.
31:48
Like I could even see her staying silent before Trump, you
31:51
know, got into it. But now that he's in it, if
31:53
you're a celebrity that like, you don't want to be mistaken as
31:57
as MAGA, you would clear your name up.
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You would clear it up because you're like, wait, I don't want
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to be associated with Trump, but she doesn't care.
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OK. This next controversy, which is
32:07
more recent, and I feel like it's kind of getting
32:09
overshadowed probably because like most people don't really
32:12
care. And it's definitely not as bad
32:14
as the eugenics ad. But she is playing a queer
32:18
boxer. She is playing Christy Martin.
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Christy Martin is, I would argue, Butch.
32:24
Some people would say mask. OK, Definitely not them.
32:28
So she is a queer boxer. Sidney Sweeney is playing her in
32:34
a dramatic movie and it's called Christy.
32:37
What do I think about straight people playing queer characters?
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I don't think it's actually bad. I just think there's a pattern
32:46
going on in Hollywood where like, it's almost like turns on
32:50
audiences to be like, whoa, a straight person is playing a gay
32:53
role. Or like, look at Sidney Sweeney
32:56
completely transforming from her like hot, pretty blonde
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aesthetic into this Butch, like muscular queer woman.
33:06
Like, look at the difference. And I think that Hollywood
33:09
thinks that that's like, tantalizing and, like, spicy.
33:13
And if they put a gay character in a gay role, they think it's
33:16
too gay and not tantalizing for straight audiences.
33:20
And I think that's actually exactly what's happening.
33:23
And I also think Sidney Sweeney may be queer, but a lot of queer
33:27
people are Republicans. So if you're a Republican, I
33:30
don't care if you're queer. I don't want you in a Hollywood
33:33
movie about a queer character. Like you're voting against your
33:38
own rights. And then also the character is
33:41
not like femme. We like we never cast butches
33:46
and masks into big roles. OK, so we have a big role for
33:52
once. And then you cast Sydney Sweeney
33:55
in it and like looking at the pictures of her, she doesn't
33:59
even look like her. It just looks wrong.
34:00
It doesn't look right. So that's one controversy.
34:03
The other one that happened recently that I actually was had
34:06
mixed feelings on. And I do think it depends on
34:08
like who is doing it. But me, Sweeney selling her
34:11
bathtub water, she just has such a long list of pick me things
34:16
and behaviors that she does. It's really infuriating.
34:19
And she did this collaboration with Doctor Squatch.
34:22
Never heard of it before. Selling limited edition soap
34:26
made with Sydney's bathwater, which apparently each bar of
34:31
soap was made with a small amount of her actual bathwater.
34:35
Now, usually I support women's wrongs and rights and I'm like,
34:40
oh, men are obsessed with you. You should monetize this and
34:44
like, you know, do your thing. But I think what's annoying
34:46
about it is that this is her entire personality now.
34:49
She knows that men are obsessed with her, view her as a sex
34:51
symbol. And at this point, it's like
34:54
women hate her. And I think a lot of brands view
34:57
that as like, women are jealous of her.
34:59
But I don't think it's jealousy. I think it's just like anger.
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And so now you're going to then sell your own bathwater to men.
35:08
You can also talk about, you know, the rumors of her maybe
35:12
cheating with Glenn Powell during the filming of anyone but
35:14
you. And both Glenn and her were in
35:17
relationships at this time. You know, who knows what
35:20
happened? But that's never good.
35:23
It's giving catering towards men and doing these like, annoying
35:27
fucking things. And also she's a Republican.
35:30
And then we have birthday party gate.
35:32
This is an interesting one because it did seem worse before
35:36
you got the whole story. So Sidney Sweeney went to her
35:40
mom's birthday party and her mom's birthday party was like
35:43
this country theme whatever. People saw an Instagram posted
35:47
by her and in the back of the Instagram there's people with
35:50
red hats on. They are like the MAGA hats.
35:53
However, if you zoom in, you can see that some of them, and it's
35:58
hard to tell. The other ones, they actually
36:01
say make sixty grade again, not make America Great again.
36:06
But it's also hard to know, are those MAGA people thinking it's
36:09
like cute or is it progressive thinking it's funny?
36:13
We might never know. And there was like obviously a
36:15
huge backlash with this. People thought she was MAGA and
36:18
it doesn't mean that she herself is MAGA.
36:20
But as we can kind of tell now with all of these problems that
36:23
she's had and her actions, she probably is and they probably
36:28
all are too. So the backlash and the
36:31
reception of all of this is very interesting.
36:34
You know, is she being unfairly sexualized?
36:37
Is American Eagle unfairly sexualizing her?
36:40
Is it her fault? You know, is she wanting this
36:43
stereotype for herself? Does she care?
36:46
She's not really owning it. Like Emily Ratatowski.
36:50
Emily Ratatowski, I don't know how to pronounce her name, but
36:53
like model and sex symbol who like wrote an amazing book about
36:57
like sexualization. Like that's obviously not Cindy
36:59
Sweeney's vibe. What is the patriarchy's fault?
37:02
This is all being swept up also into politics and like, fucking
37:05
MAGA Trump stuff. And I think the public reaction
37:09
is fair on the critical side. I also do think, though, that
37:14
some women have taken it too far and like, decide to critique her
37:18
appearance being like, she's not even that pretty.
37:20
And it's like, OK, that's never going to help feminism.
37:23
That's never going to help like, solve misogyny.
37:27
It's just like not helpful. I think it's just wild that
37:32
Cindy Sweeney in this year of 2025 is being used as a
37:35
political tool by Donald Trump. Get me off this timeline.
37:39
All right, y'all? That's it for my episode.
37:41
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37:43
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37:45
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