There isn't just immaturity, insecurity, and resentment being expressed here. It's mostly an auto-pilot expression of political and ideological indoctrination. There is nothing thoughtful or genuine about a sentence like this one: "I hate that that continues to be a shared experience for young brown girls in this country." Folks like "Payal" have been programmed to repeat mind-numbingly tedious nonsense like this.
Yesssssss. Exactly like it's just so.... empty. These people say these things as though they are meaningful, deep,and emotional when in reality they are void of all. It's all just soooo phony.
I’m all about everyone feeling like they are beautiful and belong. It is deeply concerning, however, the amount of people that seem to think the best way to achieve such feelings is by focusing on the largest possible audience most of whom they have never met.
Beauty is soooo not just superficial, also! Anyone who has been attracted to anyone in real life knows this! We are attracted to people because of personality, vibes, style, sense of humour, behaviour, etc etc
Thanks Meghan, good article. The notion that anyone has a right to be be perceived in a certain way by anyone else is an absolutely poisionous one for any society. The logical conclusion of it is the trans insanity we have today, with people demanding to be perceived as a sex which they obviously are not. I do think we should have compassion on those experiencing self-esteem issues, including body dysmorphia, but not to the point of demanding that the rest of society say things they don't actually believe to be true.
Well, that was a clear-as-a-bell, intelligent comment on this whole goofy foofaraw. My favourite line: "Men are very inclusive when it comes to hotness!" Absolutely true. And its corollary in the comments: "We are attracted to people because of personality, vibes, style, sense of humour, behaviour, etc etc".
Okay, but Sydney Sweeney is a bottle blonde so it is a little messed up that she's essentially bragging about her great genes when that's not what she genetically looks like.
I'd have no issue with the ad if that was her natural, genetic beauty. And I'd have no issue with her faking blonde hair if she weren't implying it's genetic.
But are we really going to pretend that blonde hair isn't fetishized? I'm a natural blonde, trust me, people are psychotic about blonde hair and it's not healthy. At the same time, because I'm mixed-ethnic and have Mediterranean-typical facial features, I also know what it's like to be bombarded with the message that, for example, my nose would be sexier if it were more stereotypically "white". As a teenager, I was absolutely hit with the societal messaging that my Western European traits were attractive while my Southern European and Middle Eastern ones weren't and I should consider plastic surgery to correct them. It's all BS of course.
Women destroy their hair and their hormonal health with bleach and toxic hair dyes to try to fake blondness. Is that Sydney Sweeney's fault? No. She has a smoking hot body and looks great in AE's jeans, but a lot of those "great genes" she's bragging about are actually great hair and make-up. She's beautiful and would look fine with her natural hair.
You are correct but I think the whole ad was tongue in cheek not intended to be serious! (Also I think the 'genes' part was mostly alluding to her boobs... That was the main joke, really...)
C'mon, Meghan, I know I'm just a genetically inferior dago mongrel but I am smart enough to have figured that out ...
Edit: Sorry, feeling a bit snarky about this whole thing, like AE just played everyone by deliberately provoking the wokes so the anti-wokes will jump to their defense and apparently genuinely start to believe that Syndey Sweeney is unusually hot and talented. The posts have all been like "The uggos are jealous!" and people do not seem to understand that other than the fact that Sweeney has incredible breasts, pretty much everything else about her appearance (and her talent) is a matter of taste, not objective beauty, and Western European beauty standards have, in fact, been shoved down people's throats for generations while ethnic features have been denigrated -- and women sold expensive and toxic beauty products and surgeries to make themselves look "whiter".
TikTok lady’s rant is very 1980s when representation (casting a wide net) was an issue. That time has passed. TikTok lady probably had a teacher who was schooled in the 1980s.
There isn't just immaturity, insecurity, and resentment being expressed here. It's mostly an auto-pilot expression of political and ideological indoctrination. There is nothing thoughtful or genuine about a sentence like this one: "I hate that that continues to be a shared experience for young brown girls in this country." Folks like "Payal" have been programmed to repeat mind-numbingly tedious nonsense like this.
Yesssssss. Exactly like it's just so.... empty. These people say these things as though they are meaningful, deep,and emotional when in reality they are void of all. It's all just soooo phony.
I’m all about everyone feeling like they are beautiful and belong. It is deeply concerning, however, the amount of people that seem to think the best way to achieve such feelings is by focusing on the largest possible audience most of whom they have never met.
Beauty is soooo not just superficial, also! Anyone who has been attracted to anyone in real life knows this! We are attracted to people because of personality, vibes, style, sense of humour, behaviour, etc etc
Thanks Meghan, good article. The notion that anyone has a right to be be perceived in a certain way by anyone else is an absolutely poisionous one for any society. The logical conclusion of it is the trans insanity we have today, with people demanding to be perceived as a sex which they obviously are not. I do think we should have compassion on those experiencing self-esteem issues, including body dysmorphia, but not to the point of demanding that the rest of society say things they don't actually believe to be true.
Well, that was a clear-as-a-bell, intelligent comment on this whole goofy foofaraw. My favourite line: "Men are very inclusive when it comes to hotness!" Absolutely true. And its corollary in the comments: "We are attracted to people because of personality, vibes, style, sense of humour, behaviour, etc etc".
Great article Meghan.
Thank you!
I got good jeans.
Okay, but Sydney Sweeney is a bottle blonde so it is a little messed up that she's essentially bragging about her great genes when that's not what she genetically looks like.
I'd have no issue with the ad if that was her natural, genetic beauty. And I'd have no issue with her faking blonde hair if she weren't implying it's genetic.
But are we really going to pretend that blonde hair isn't fetishized? I'm a natural blonde, trust me, people are psychotic about blonde hair and it's not healthy. At the same time, because I'm mixed-ethnic and have Mediterranean-typical facial features, I also know what it's like to be bombarded with the message that, for example, my nose would be sexier if it were more stereotypically "white". As a teenager, I was absolutely hit with the societal messaging that my Western European traits were attractive while my Southern European and Middle Eastern ones weren't and I should consider plastic surgery to correct them. It's all BS of course.
Women destroy their hair and their hormonal health with bleach and toxic hair dyes to try to fake blondness. Is that Sydney Sweeney's fault? No. She has a smoking hot body and looks great in AE's jeans, but a lot of those "great genes" she's bragging about are actually great hair and make-up. She's beautiful and would look fine with her natural hair.
You are correct but I think the whole ad was tongue in cheek not intended to be serious! (Also I think the 'genes' part was mostly alluding to her boobs... That was the main joke, really...)
C'mon, Meghan, I know I'm just a genetically inferior dago mongrel but I am smart enough to have figured that out ...
Edit: Sorry, feeling a bit snarky about this whole thing, like AE just played everyone by deliberately provoking the wokes so the anti-wokes will jump to their defense and apparently genuinely start to believe that Syndey Sweeney is unusually hot and talented. The posts have all been like "The uggos are jealous!" and people do not seem to understand that other than the fact that Sweeney has incredible breasts, pretty much everything else about her appearance (and her talent) is a matter of taste, not objective beauty, and Western European beauty standards have, in fact, been shoved down people's throats for generations while ethnic features have been denigrated -- and women sold expensive and toxic beauty products and surgeries to make themselves look "whiter".
TikTok lady’s rant is very 1980s when representation (casting a wide net) was an issue. That time has passed. TikTok lady probably had a teacher who was schooled in the 1980s.