The Morning Briefing: Sydney Sweeney Should Win an Award for Triggering Miserable Lib Women

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Happy Thursday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. The Sine Qua Non Sequitur is off searching for ethically sourced, rum-infused bonbons.

Yes, amid all of the strife and turmoil in the world, we're leading off with some lighter fare about an American actress. There's a very good reason for that. Between now and the election, I'm going to pounce on anything my colleagues write that's not about the weirdo in the White House, war, or the fact that inflation is worse than The New York Times says it is. I swear, if one of them writes 500 words about plantar warts one day, I'm leading with that.

Full disclosure: I don't know anyone who has ever suffered from plantar warts.

Sydney Sweeney is the kind of showbiz success story that's refreshing to see. She has become fairly famous very quickly. Despite being only 26 years old, she's handled the fame and attendant media scrutiny very well. She hasn't spiraled out of control like so many young people do when thrust into the spotlight.

By all accounts, Sweeney seems to be a hard worker who doesn't step on anyone's toes.

It's 2024, however, and the world is absolutely polluted with people who seek out grievances and things to gripe about where none exist.

Back in March on the Monday after the Academy Awards, a feminist shrew at the online lefty rag Slate wrote an article titled, "Sydney Sweeney's Boobs Are Not That Big." The subheading was, "If anything, they're kind of average."

Show me on the Gloria Steinem doll where Sydney Sweeney touched you.

Seriously, this was pathetic even for a commie chick writing for a prog toilet site like Slate. We get it, babe, the boys don't look at you, so blame the pretty girl.

Our friends and colleagues at Twitchy had a lot of fun with that one. The story also inspired one of the greatest episodes of "Unwoke" that Kevin Downey Jr. and I ever did. I mean, it was a harmonic convergence of subject matter and podcast mission statement.

The reason that we're focusing on Ms. Sweeney today is because my good friend Stephen Green gave the latest story about her the VodkaPundit treatment yesterday:

Sydney Sweeney, according to longtime Hollywood producer Carol Baum, "isn't pretty and can't act," and them's fightin' words.
The fact is that Sweeney is drop-dead gorgeous. There's a reason that the entertainment industry and its assorted hangers-on plaster her image on every available screen, magazine cover, tweet, etc. In her public appearances — I'll get into her film and TV appearances momentarily — she embodies old-school Hollywood glamor, with her décolletage going all the way out to places where mere mortal women don't even have places.
Sweeney's good looks aren't subject to debate. They simply are — and I say that as a devoted leg man who prefers brunettes.

I'm seconding Stephen's assessment of Sweeney's looks, also doing it as a leg man who prefers brunettes. Yes, beauty is subjective. Most of the time, anyway. Sydney Sweeney is an objectively attractive young woman. That's why lefty broads are insisting that she's not.

Leftism is driven by envy and resentment — which aren't the same things, by the way. The kids who hated high school because they wanted to be liked but weren't make perfect progressives. Sydney Sweeney's youth and looks make her both an easy target and a threat to the Carol Baums of the world.

Stephen notes that he's never seen Sweeney act. I have seen her in a few things (not "Euphoria" though) and she's pretty good. She had two Primetime Emmy nominations before she was 25. She hasn't gotten this far by simply being some eye candy who provides background cleavage.

Despite Sweeney's overwhelming success to this point, Mr. Green expresses some legitimate concern for her:

In addition to being objectified for her obvious endowments — particularly by the rotten industry in which she works — she's also an object of our increasingly ugly culture wars. She risks becoming persona non grata in Hollywood, now that "her looks [are] being used by right-wing commenters as a valid argument that 'woke is dead'."

He's dead on about the culture wars, of course. Stephen and I have been colleagues for 14 years now and agree on almost everything, but I don't think that the entertainment industry is "rotten." I've been in it most of my adult life and have been acquainted with far more good people than bad. I do, however, understand how it looks from the outside.

Having worked in both realms, I can assure you that Hollywood is filled with choirboys compared to the scumbags in politics. When they say that politics is Hollywood for ugly people, the ugliness is both inside and out.

Sydney Sweeney's looks and success are anathema to leftist feminist types. Baum's won't be the last out-of-the-blue resentment salvo lobbed Sweeney's way. Hopefully, the personal and professional circles around her will keep her grounded.

Until the Left outlaws attractive people, that is.

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