The Far Right Thinks Sydney Sweeney Killed Wokeness

According to some conservative thinkers, the scourge of “wokeness” has finally been defeated: Last weekend it was smothered to death on live television by a starlet’s breasts. “Are Sydney Sweeney’s breasts double-D harbingers of the death of woke?” asked Canada’s National Post. Another contender might be this sentence from the Post: “If Chappelle had Sweeney’s buxom bust, we could have easily been having this same cultural conversation more than a year ago.” But I think the distinction of nuttiest bit in either piece should probably go to the Spectator’s assertion that most young people today are unfamiliar with the concept of a hot blond girl with big boobs: “For anyone under the age of 25, they’ve likely never seen it in their lifetime—as the giggling blonde with an amazing rack has been stamped out of existence, a creature shamed to the brink of extinction.” This is absurd: Hot people, obviously, have always walked among us, and boobs never stopped being a highly lusted-after secondary sex characteristic. The National Post praised Sweeney for “playfully owning her sex appeal with zero apologies” and criticized Vanity Fair for suggesting it might have been nice to give her some material that wasn’t about her beauty. Amid the Sweeney mania this week, a woman went viral on X for a now-deleted post in which she shared a picture of Sweeney and herself side by side and wrote, “Sydney Sweeney is adorable, and tbh it’s really awesome to have an A list celebrity who does share your body type.” It’s easy to roll your eyes at anyone who would say that, and maybe she was trolling—again, in what universe are conventionally attractive blonds with great bodies not being represented in society?