Sydney Sweeney's 'sexualized' sports betting ad slammed by Canadian athletes

[Jotunn]

Sydney Sweeney's 'sexualized' sports betting ad slammed by Canadian athletes

If this is sounding familiar, Sweeney faced similar backlash last year over an American Eagle advertisement that was criticized for promoting white [sic] standards of beauty at best, and eugenics at worst.

In the ad, Sweeney makes a play on words between jeans (the clothing item) and genes (the genetic material).

"Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair colour, personality and even eye colour. My jeans are blue," Sweeney said in the ad.

Some internet commentators read the ad as alluding to eugenics. Eugenics is a discredited idea that the human race could be improved by selectively breeding for certain traits.

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I'm not big into sports stories, but this one contains an egregious bit of misinformative propaganda.

They are blatantly suggesting that humans somehow stand outside of the process of evolution, that our species is not shaped by genetics.

If anyone is familiar with dogs or horses, eugenics is used generously upon both species, resulting in numerous breeds of each that simply do not occur in the wild, other than through incidences of escaped animals, because those breeds were crafted deliberately by humans, for human purposes.

It is incredibly misleading to suggest that selective breeding of humans would have no similar effect.

In addition to this inescapably unscientific statement, there is a generally anti-White tone to the article.

The CBC, it seems, does not hesitate to lie in its rush to put down the White race.

[fluxmaster]

As far as the four paragraphs you quoted from the article, I agree, but those paragraphs were taken from way down near the bottom of the article. Most of the article is about her ad for Just Sports, and up to but not including those four paragraphs I agree with it and with the athletes. White women should not be posing essentially nude to advertise products or services.

[Phoenix]

"Sex sells," is an inescapable fact of life. It's a concept which "woke" (and anti-White) corporate entities tried to ignore, much to the damage of their bottom lines.  Now it is moving back somewhat, proving another hard fact of life, "profit is everything".

That black, brown and mixed race ads now dominate demonstrates another harsh truth, that our demographics have changed for the worse.  One cannot fault the advertizers for targeting the existing audience.  "Old White racists" don't buy most of the crap they're peddling anyway.

[fluxmaster]

"Sex sells," is an inescapable fact of life. It's a concept which "woke" (and anti-White) corporate entities tried to ignore, much to the damage of their bottom lines.  Now it is moving back somewhat, proving another hard fact of life, "profit is everything".

Yes, but there's a difference between using an attractive woman in advertising and using a totally naked woman using her hand or small props to barely cover her private areas.

I asked Microsoft Copilot to give me examples of sexuality in advertising from Victorian times, and this is what it gave me:

These would not even be considered sexual today. The last one was from an "underground catalog" as it was not permitted in respectable publications. Furthermore, these ads were targeted at women, not men. When I asked for examples of ads specifically targeted at men, this is what it gave me.

These are quite tame by modern standards.

[Dietl]

Of course, they hate Sydney Sweeney because she's a sexy white woman.  If this were some she-boon doing the same ads, the same critics would advocate it.