Sydney Sweeney has company, and he or she is aware of how one can use it.
The 27-year-old star embraced her intercourse attraction earlier this yr by promoting her bathwater in tiny doses. Sydney’s Bathwater Bliss proved a advertising hit, snagging free media protection for the artisanal cleaning soap product.
And, within the course of, Sweeney proved an excellent sport about her picture. Male Gaze? Carry it!
Now, she’s the face of American Eagle denims, and everyone knows how that went over throughout the fruited plains.
The Left melted down, dubbed her a Nazi and worse, if that’s doable. On a regular basis People chuckled over the dustup and despatched American Eagle inventory hovering.
And conservatives rushed to Sweeney’s facet, noting it’s regular for a stupendous lady to hawk a product like blue denims. Welcome to the Tradition Wars, 2025 model.
Even a sure world chief weighed in on SweeneyGate.
Donald Trump calling Sydney Sweeney scorching was not on my 2025 bingo card pic.twitter.com/dibFfpFcio
— greg (@greg16676935420) August 4, 2025
One group is lacking on this equation: Feminists.
The place are they?
Why aren’t they driving to Sweeney’s protection? In any case, an empowered younger actress has taken on not one however two sponsorships that she felt greatest represented her values.
Isn’t that what the time period “company” is all about?
When Stephen Colbert acquired canned by CBS final month, his fellow talk-show hosts rallied to his facet, sputtering curses alongside the way in which.
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It’s one thing we generally see round Tinsel City, artists having one another’s backs. But Sweeney stands just about alone within the Hollywood ecosystem.
Now, it’s doable that she’s receiving loads of help behind the scenes. We acquired you, Syd, they may DM or textual content the “Anybody However You” star. They apparently received’t do it publicly.
What in regards to the Girls’s Marchers from La La Land? Amy Schumer? Scarlett Johansson? Frances McDormand? Charlize Theron? Madonna? Zendaya?
The possibilities of that taking place vanished when a number of media retailers dug into Sweeney’s background and realized she registered as a Republican final yr.
It’s Woodward and Bernstein-level journalism from reporters who buried the Hunter Biden laptop computer scandal and known as a dementia-addled president sharp as a tack.
Girls’s teams and feminists alike stood down when Disney unfairly fired Gina Carano. They’re doing the identical right here.
It’s not shocking. They’re not about empowering ladies – if there’s an opportunity mentioned lady wears a MAGA hat.
UPDATE: Paradoxically, the primary main star to defend Sweeney isn’t a girl. Actor/comic Michael Rapaport has come to the starlet’s protection.
“This can be a younger 27-year-old lady that’s being bullied and harassed. You don’t suppose her group of highly effective brokers and legal professionals dotted each I and ran the whole lot up the flagpole to try this American Eagle denims marketing campaign and abruptly she’s a Nazi, and it’s white supremacy? Depart her the f— alone.”