Sydney Sweeney, Terrorist
And: Peter Putnam's Participatory Universe; Pervy Meta; Broken Britain
I, for one, enjoy watching the libs melt down more than I should. Watching talking-head TV progressives and social media leftists defending urban crime because El Trumpo is actually doing something about it is like watching The Jerry Springer Show: it’s bad for you, but you just can’t look away.
In that spirit, the New Yorker, which, I swear, is a prestige magazine, has just published a thinkpiece about Sydney Sweeney’s jeans. It was written by a black woman, Doreen St. Félix, which is important information, as you’ll see in a second. First, for empiricism’s sake, you might want to refresh your memory of the TV ad that “terrorized” the New Yorker’s jeans critic:
No great artist directed these commercials. The allusion is incoherent, unless, of course, we root around for other meanings, and we don’t have to search for long: genes, referring to Sweeney’s famously large breasts; genes, referring to her whiteness. (American Eagle has said that the campaign “is and always was about the jeans.”) Interestingly, breasts, and the desire for them, are stereotyped as objects of white desire, as opposed to, say, the Black man’s hunger for ass. Sweeney, on the precipice of totalizing fame, has an adoring legion, the most extreme of whom want to recruit her as a kind of Aryan princess.
“Black man’s hunger for ass.” Where did you go, Mr. Shawn?
Anyway, to everyone but the woke, the “jeans/genes” pun refers to Sweeney’s physical beauty, not the color of her skin. But St. Félix thinks about white people a lot:
But she’s not racist, she swears! From the NYer piece:
To be clear, many of us—the Negroes, the queers, the hairy feminists, et cetera, et cetera—do not react out of a feeling of personal injury, as if the blondeness-as-beauty standard has terrorized us. Whom does that standard terrorize more than white cis women, honestly?
Mmm-hmm. One more:
Her blondness, like a lot of adult blondness, is a chemical thing masquerading as natural only to those most gullible in the population, straight men, who don’t know, and don’t care to understand, how much of so-called natural female beauty is constructed.
Wait … what?! Is Doreen St. Félix telling me that women wear make-up and dye their hair to appear more attractive?! Wow. Who knew?
The New Yorker, folks. Anyway, I would like to thank the nitwit woke Doreen St. Félix and her hapless editors for giving me the chance to write once again about Sydney Sweeney. It’s part of my ongoing effort, as a straight man, to understand the construction of female beauty. It’s the least I can do in reparation.
Seriously, though: we all know perfectly well that a white person who had once tweeted something so racist and sexist about women and/or people of color would never again work in media. The shrill bigot Doreen St. Félix, an Ivy League graduate (Brown) who is terrorized by the existence of Sydney Sweeney, writes for one of the most fancy magazines in America. And this kind of thing is one reason we have Trump.
I’m serious, and honestly, it makes me grateful for Trump. Imagine an cultural ecosystem in which such racist views are not only tolerated, but rewarded, and honored. That’s what wokeness in power has meant in America. If it requires a big orange galoot from Queens to meaningfully push back on it, then I’m for it. I don’t think the Left is capable of understanding how offensive all this is to very many of us. The way the Left elites have behaved in this country for many years is horrible, really horrible. All the stuff coming out now about how universities have openly discriminated against white males in admissions and faculty hires — not only was this infuriating, it would still be secret if not for Trump.
As you all know, I am really worried about the racialist, right-wing radicalism emerging among younger white males in the US. This is the post-Christian Right that we have long worried about. I don’t blame Trump for it at all. I blame the Left, straight up. These boys grew up in a world that told them they were what was wrong with it. A friend told me the other day that last year, an elite prep school had two suicides of young white males who did not get into the colleges they wanted to get into. Mind you, a kid who kills himself because he didn’t get into Harvard, or whatever, has problems worse than wokeness. The pressure his personal culture puts on him to ACHIEVE has a role here, no doubt.
Still, when you read things like this, about Cornell’s racist faculty hiring policies, and you read report after report about how Harvard and so many other elite colleges actively discriminated against white males applying for admission, it’s hard not to hate them and want them severely punished. I’ve mentioned in this space before about the humiliation of being told by the Austin American-Statesman newspaper, back in 1997, that they wanted to hire me, but would be doing a nationwide search for a woman or a person of color who was as good as I was (based on my work) before they would even interview me — man, you just don’t get over that. It made me feel personally how women and people of color felt when they were not considered fairly for jobs, solely because of their sex or the color of their skin. It was profoundly unjust then, and it’s profoundly unjust now. I cannot fathom the theory of justice that makes that kind of reverse discrimination okay for liberals and progressives. Well, now they’ve radicalized a generation of young white males. Satisfied?
You might have seen the much-discussed CNN piece on Douglas Wilson and his church, and their rising influence on the Right. Longtime readers know that Pastor Wilson and I aren’t exactly friends. I have genuine concerns about their theology and practice. But observing the lib freakout over him, I just shake my head. Do they even know the kind of utter insanity they, the libs, pushed as normal, for years? For some reason, thinking about this brought to mind that 2020 Ari Shapiro NPR interview with a woke black female “cultural critic”, on the subject of the monster hit at the time, “W.A.P.” The interviewee praised it as feminist liberation, and condemned Ben Shapiro, who criticized the song; she denounced him as racist and sexist.
Here are the lyrics to this song, which was hugely popular in the summer of 2020. If this isn’t animalistic decadence, there is no such thing. And yet, not only was this a huge hit, but criticizing it got you denounced as racist and sexist in the national media. And I’m supposed to worry about a bunch of hard-right Calvinists in Idaho? I’m not at all a Wilsonista, but Doug Wilson and his followers are not the problem.
On a lighter note, the Vibe Shift has apparently not yet reached the New England Patriots, who are still stuck in the Bud Light era, and have concluded that pro football fans want to see a gay male cheerleader prancing about like a woman on the sidelines.
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