Fun:Sydney Sweeney's boobs
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Sydney Sweeney's boobs are a pair of famous American mammary glands which, according to commentators, ended the scourge of wokeness.[3][4]
The end of woke[edit]
Sydney Sweeney's boobs hosted the March 3rd, 2024 episode of SNL, prompting some surprising takes by right-wing commentators:
- "Wokeness is dead," tweeted Richard Hanania with a video of appearance.
- "Wokeness is so finished," tweeted Ian Miles Cheong pairing the Sweeney video with one of a carpenter at work.
This lead many on the left confused as to what these commentators think "woke" means.[5][6]
This bizare narrative, nonetheless, was picked up by mainstream commentators Amy Hamm in the National Post and Bridget Phetasy in the Spectator. With the former stating that, "We've been pressured into pretending everyone is beautiful, except for those who actually are," which she illustrates with the backlash to Jordan Peterson's "Sorry. Not Beautiful," tweet in reaction to plus-size model Yumi Nu's 2022 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover.[2] And the latter stating that "the giggling blonde with an amazing rack has been stamped out of existence," and under 25's have, "likely never seen it in their lifetime," so it's return is the "real body positivity."[1]
Response came from Tayo Bero in The Guardian and Heather Schwedel in Slate. With the former stating that whilst this conversation is, "clearly a reaction to the fact that we’re seeing far more racialized, gender-nonconforming, not-model-thin people in mainstream media," "Sweeney was never on the outside," and ogling her isn’t a revolutionary act, as, "society’s obsession with skinny, blonde, large-breasted women never went anywhere."[4] The latter affirms that "Sweeney, apparently, is a savior for the people who are tired of the stars that woke Hollywood is trying to thrust upon them, with their diversity, body positivity, and other hated buzzwords," and that, "Hot people, obviously, have always walked among us, and boobs never stopped being a highly lusted-after secondary sex characteristic."[3]
Bero is particularly scournful of the attempt to redifine body positivity, writing, "Knowing how much some conservatives despise fatness in women, it’s also interesting to see them so easily exploit the idea of body positivity. And while this kind of goalpost-shifting is par for the course at this point, it remains infuriating to watch rightwingers both villainize and also manipulate the language of inclusion, depending on what suits them."[4]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sydney Sweeney and the return of real body positivity by Bridget Phetasy (March 6, 2024) Spectator
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Wokeness is no match for Sydney Sweeney's undeniable beauty by Amy Hamm (March 6, 2024) National Post
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Far Right Thinks Sydney Sweeney Killed Wokeness by Heather Schwedel (March 8, 2024) Slate
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 What’s with the weird conservative obsession with Sydney Sweeney? by Tayo Bero (March 9, 2024) The Guardian
- ↑ How did Sydney Sweeney’s ‘SNL’ outfits prove to the far-right that ‘wokeness’ is now dead? by Mikael Thalen (March 4, 2024) The Daily Dot
- ↑ Are Sydney Sweeney's Boobs 'Anti-Woke'? A Bewildering And Surprisingly Widespread Right-wing Talking Point Explained by Adam Downer (March 8, 2024) Know Your Meme