Sydney Sweeney / American Eagle Controversy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For decades, I've never taken offense if some totally average Black woman or man was praised as a "queen" or "king," but now some of you are having a complete meltdown because some randon advertising campaign plays on a white woman's attractiveness. Grow up.

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Black women and other WOC are celebrated when they're in ads/marketing campaigns. Now, apparently, it's ok to tear down white women if they are also featured in campaigns. Glad to see how many people think it's utterly ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Apparently there was a 15-minute stretch in which progressives didn’t have anything to blow out of proportion & whine about, & their bylaws required them to pick some random issue to fill the void.

Ergo, American Eagle is a Nazi front. It could just as easily been Froot Loops cereal is anti-gay or Hush Puppies shoes are cruel to dogs.

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"Quick, what should we boycott today?!"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the idea was to promote white, blue-eyed, blonde beauty ..it is not SS. There are better choices out there.

I think the idea is to promote the jeans. Not the ethnicity of the person wearing them. But since that's all you see, no matter what, we really can't help you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I 100% do not believe normal heterosexual men are posting on DC Urban Moms about how how Sydney Sweeney is. There is no way.

How how what?

What about those sentences was hard for you to understand? We will break it down for you into smaller pieces.

[Anonymous]

It's actually pretty easy for me to imagine a camps gb like this with a black, AAPI, or mixed race celebrity. I can imagine a very curvy black rapper in this campaign, someone like L'il Kim. Or like Chrissy Teigen in her prime. Basically anyone selling sex appeal and T&A. I can also imagine non-blonde white celebs doing it. The Kardashians for sure, they could have several of them in it and play up "shared jeans."

I think it's a dumb ad but that the outrage is silly. It's kind of a throwback to like the old Brooke Shields Calvin Klein ads -- hot girl, jeans and little else, provocative tag line. Looks like AE is trying to sex up their image. It's exploitative in the way any fashion ad preying on our collective obsession with hot young women is exploitative.But it's not racist. If there's discrimination here, it's just against non-hot people, which is most people. I'm white and I'm not hot! I guess I don't have good genes (but maybe if I had good jeans, it would help -- haha the ad is working, too bad AE jeans are cheap garbage).

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Anonymous wrote:I think this ad is a bit tone deaf, but not actually offensive. They could easily just add a couple more pairs of jeans/spokespeople and defuse all of this, so they may go that route.

But people don’t necessarily want that. A lot of people are tired of every add featuring an interracial couple.

Who cares what race she is? She’s objectively hot.

I always figured this was marketing trying to reach a broad audience. I personally don’t even notice it

Wow, you are such a GOOD person!

I was being serious I don’t pay attention to that. The people in ads are filler and unimportant like the pictures that come with picture frames.

[Anonymous]

I’m sure this will make some of y’all heads explode but Dunkin’ Donuts decided to do a fast follow:

https://www.today.com/food/news/dunkin-gavin-casalegno-ad-genetics-controversy-rcna221951

“This tan? Genetics.”

[Anonymous]

Companies are realizing that negativity dominates the media more than anything else.

[Anonymous]

American Eagle probably saw that their clothes sold the most to suburban white southerners and Midwesterners and ran with it. I’m not a white woman and I don’t gravitate to AE and haven’t in years and it isn’t due to any ad campaign, its because it’s boring. Not a lot of unique pieces or bright colors. Whole store full of tan, and pastels.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:American Eagle probably saw that their clothes sold the most to suburban white southerners and Midwesterners and ran with it. I’m not a white woman and I don’t gravitate to AE and haven’t in years and it isn’t due to any ad campaign, its because it’s boring. Not a lot of unique pieces or bright colors. Whole store full of tan, and pastels.

The cope from sulking DCUMs is amazing to watch.

[Anonymous]

I’m on the left but this is why we lost. People on our side making a big deal out of everything literally exhausted the country.
If a beautiful woman from any race was doing ad, I’d think they had good genes also.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For decades, I've never taken offense if some totally average Black woman or man was praised as a "queen" or "king," but now some of you are having a complete meltdown because some randon advertising campaign plays on a white woman's attractiveness. Grow up.

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Black women and other WOC are celebrated when they're in ads/marketing campaigns. Now, apparently, it's ok to tear down white women if they are also featured in campaigns. Glad to see how many people think it's utterly ridiculous.

If anyone isn’t aware, Sydney isn’t just “featured” in the ad. Her lines are "Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality and even eye color. My genes are blue,"

This is eugenics.

No one cares that the white, blonde, blue-eyed actress who played Izzy Steven’s on Grey’s Anatomy is shilling pee pads. She’s not talking about genetics.

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Anonymous wrote: Man! This forum isn't usually where I end up when I'm on dcum.But, as a heterosexual man, can someone..anyone, tell me why this woman is supposed to be the 'it girl' when it comes to looks. Is this supposed to be some kind of parody ? Can this Sweeney chick get more than one look from most boys on an American college campus ? Certainly not where I went to school. If she's what passes for hot these days,God help us all.

As for the ad, its very much in line with what a certain of this country believes in. There's an unmistakable double entendre there unless, of course, you CHOOSE to put on your blinders.

Oh please. She’d be the hot “it” girl on any campus. She is obviously gorgeous by any metric and what puts her over the top is her doe eyes, it factor and charm. She has a magnetic personality.

That’s not to say I think she’s an incredible actress. I honestly haven’t watched anything she’s in but she does pop on camera and she’s very charming.

As another straight man, I had the same thought as PP. Her doe eyes are weird. She's got big boobs but big boobs aren't hard to come by. I probably see a woman as hot as her any time I go to the mall.

It’s AE. It’s not some luxury aspirational brand. They sell $40 jeans.

Which is why they are reaching out to a certain type of white woman. One who only has whiteness as a reason why she (in her opinion) is not at the bottom of society. LBJ got it right about poor whites in America.

[Anonymous]

Our society is so broken.

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Anonymous wrote: Man! This forum isn't usually where I end up when I'm on dcum.But, as a heterosexual man, can someone..anyone, tell me why this woman is supposed to be the 'it girl' when it comes to looks. Is this supposed to be some kind of parody ? Can this Sweeney chick get more than one look from most boys on an American college campus ? Certainly not where I went to school. If she's what passes for hot these days,God help us all.

As for the ad, its very much in line with what a certain of this country believes in. There's an unmistakable double entendre there unless, of course, you CHOOSE to put on your blinders.

Oh please. She’d be the hot “it” girl on any campus. She is obviously gorgeous by any metric and what puts her over the top is her doe eyes, it factor and charm. She has a magnetic personality.

That’s not to say I think she’s an incredible actress. I honestly haven’t watched anything she’s in but she does pop on camera and she’s very charming.

As another straight man, I had the same thought as PP. Her doe eyes are weird. She's got big boobs but big boobs aren't hard to come by. I probably see a woman as hot as her any time I go to the mall.

It’s AE. It’s not some luxury aspirational brand. They sell $40 jeans.

Which is why they are reaching out to a certain type of white woman. One who only has whiteness as a reason why she (in her opinion) is not at the bottom of society. LBJ got it right about poor whites in America.

Progressives have spent the last several years trying to convince everyone that white women were ugly and undesirable. Yet here comes Sydney Sweeney, proving that nobody bought what they were selling and now they’re mad. The pendulum is swinging back to normalcy.