Have you ever thought some people have lost their ever-lovin cotton-pickin' minds? It turns out many, at least on TikTok, have.
There is an actress named Sydney Sweeney who is, as Little Richard would say, "built for speed." A nicer way of saying it is that she is a comely young blonde who is well-endowed.
She has appeared in several movies and streaming TV shows. For some reason, her bosoms have also made cameo appearances in these movies and streaming TV shows. She is the closest thing we have to an "It" girl in popular culture today.
When I was a young man, Farrah Fawcett was "It". Every boy loved Farrah, particularly the poster of her in a bathing suit. For the record, I didn't have the poster because I have been washed in the blood. However, I did give the poster to one of my brothers for Christmas.
I was a Linda Carter man. I mean, Farrah was good-looking, and I wouldn't kick her out of the proverbial bed for eating proverbial crackers. In fact, I wouldn't kick her out of the proverbial bed for eating proverbial sardines.
I don't know why, but I'm pretty sure Farrah would not acknowledge me in the hall at my high school. I'm not saying Linda would consider me eye candy, but you never know. She might have laughed at my jokes, but I bet she would still ride off with the captain of the football team at the end of the day.
We used to have "Super Models". I think they had super powers. Christie Brinkley. Cheryl Tiegs. Kathy Ireland. Lord. we thank ye for them. I couldn't tell you the name of any current (under 30) Super Models. I don't even know if they make them anymore.
American Eagle is a company that makes and sells blue jeans and blue jeans accessories. They wanted to improve their profit margins and make money for their investors. The nerve of them.
They brought in Ms. Sweeney for a commercial. In the commercial, Sweeney is wearing a tight pair of blue jeans and a tight denim shirt that amplifies her cleavage. Her line: "Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality, and even eye color. My jeans are blue.”
One woman on social media "accused American Eagle of implicitly arguing that everyone with a different racial or ethnic background is de facto ugly."
I wouldn't say American Eagle was "implicitly arguing" that "everyone with a different racial or ethnic background is de facto ugly and therefore less human." They were "implicitly arguing" that Sydney Sweeney is hot and if you want to be hot, you need to dress like Sydney Sweeney, which means you'll need to buy our blue jeans.
Others stated American Eagle's "great genes/jeans" pun in the advertisement is a dog whistle for your friends and mine, the Nazis. Ah, yes, the great dog whistle argument. If you listen to a lot of people on TikTok, everything is a dog whistle.
It's like they imagined Don Draper coming into the board room of Sterling, Cooper, Draper, Price, Nixon, and Agnew with the marketing head honchos of American Eagle, three sheets to the wind, saying something like:
"We'll get Sydney Sweeney wearing a pair of your jeans in an ad and you will sell a lot of jeans and increase membership in the Hitler Youth. It is a win-win. Peggy get me some more of that magic brown liquid."
Instead of focusing on the hyper-sexual nature of Sweeney and her movies, they go off on this loony interpretation about Nazis and how the new Trump era doesn't think anybody but blondes can be pretty.
Back in my young adulthood, there was an actress/model named Brooke Shields, and she did an ad for Calvin Klein jeans in which she said, "You want to know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing.”
I know the 80s were such an innocent time, but that was a pretty shocking ad because it implicitly stated Brooke went commando or something. Maybe it had something to do with the Nazis. I don't remember.
Brooke was 15 years old when they did that ad, so it was, at the very least, "inappropriate" for a 15-year-old to comment on her lack of drawers.
Sweeney doesn't have that problem. She is an adult. The National Nags had to go with the possible Nazi angle, and "only white beauty standards were genetically superior to others" argument, which is very silly.
I mean, really. You are expecting a genetics argument from Sydney Sweeney and a blue jean company?
There's a commercial for a protein shake where a pleasantly plump actress says this shake is her "ride or die". I guess because it tastes good. I don't think the Shake Company is saying this full-figured gal is superior to others. They are saying, "buy our shake."
Frank Conniff, who was on "Mystery Science Theatre" posted on X: "Sydney Sweeney did a sexually suggestive commercial made for the sole purpose of selling jeans. You see, this is why Democrats always lose."
First of all, Democrats don't always lose. But Conniff was right. There are those, and they are mainly Democrats, who have to make a big deal out of every small thing, and people tune them out.
Someone responded to Conniff's post, saying, "It's an American impulse to see a demonstrably very attractive young woman having her moment and deciding she needs to be taken down a notch. They just had to reach for this."
That they did.