American Eagle is in full-on crisis mode after their “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans” campaign was met by swift public backlash as critics accused the ad of invoking eugenics. Today, the clothing company finally put out a statement explaining the campaign’s original aim: American Eagle is clarifying that their Sydney Sweeney ad was only intended to make people masturbate. […]


Context: https://www.smh.com.au/culture/celebrity/why-sydney-sweeney-s-good-jeans-campaign-is-being-compared-to-nazism-20250729-p5mikz.html

  • Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    Man, if you don’t even have the self-awareness to see what you just wrote, then there is no point in talking to you.

    • Cryptagionismisogynist@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      No, it’s rather that YOU are ableist against people with down syndrome and projected that onto my words. Now when asked what exactly is ableist, you can’t say - because it was you projecting.