Sydney Sweeney Blue Jean Ad Sparks Controversy, but Eugenics in Fashion is nothing new.

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21. Good point about the pride of ignorance

And that goes for many things, including pop culture. If you’re going to critique some aspects of it you should have some idea of what you’re talking about. I’m not saying you need to sit through a Sydney Sweeney movie (that would be cruel), but have some idea of why she’s famous (and let’s be honest it’s mostly due to her being willing to do nude scenes and having large… you get the idea). She’s now on everything. She has a soap named after her (which markets itself as something she bathed in) and an ice cream flavor at Baskin Robins.

The AE ad campaign is weird. I mean the play on genes is one thing, but I think when you have a blonde haired blue eyed woman saying she has “good genes” people start to raise an eyebrow.

The “controversy” may well be contrived, because any ad exec would know how this could be interpreted.. but it still gets buzz and that gets people into the stores, which in itself is a challenge with inflation and tariffs. Anyone remember the ads by American apparel years ago? I mean the stuff was veering on soft porn.

All publicity is good publicity?