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If you’ve been online in the last few days, you’ve been told Sydney Sweeney’s boobs are here to save civilization.
Sydney Sweeney is an American actress. Her film Anyone But You has grossed over $200 million worldwide since December, but she didn’t really crack open the zeitgeist until she appeared on Saturday Night Live in a dress that showed off her cleavage. This appearance pretty much transformed her from young starlet to muse for weird propaganda.
Here’s one of the weirdest headlines/taglines: “Wokeness is no match for Sydney Sweeney’s undeniable beauty.” That sentiment — whatever it means — has resulted in a lot of questions that can simply be summarized as the following: what the hell are you talking about, Amy Hamm? Because not even a year removed from Margot Robbie’s billion-dollar success as Barbie, we are seeing select pundits and columnists now discuss blonde beauty as if it were a dinosaur skeleton waiting for the paleontologist’s shovel.
I’m not really going to worry about where this line of Amy Hamm’s leads. I don’t need to know what the hell Sydney Sweeney’s boobs do or don’t have to do with wokeness. But I am interested in where this deranged line started, or rather where it most recently gathered momentum.
We just spent a couple months hearing complaints about Taylor Swift soaking up too much…
