Hollywood actress Sydney Sweeney's latest advertisement campaign with American Eagle has been facing backlash for promoting "unrealistic beauty standards" and "white genetic superiority". The ad shows Sydney having "great jeans" (play on the words genes). A user wrote on X, "Maybe I'm too woke, but choosing blonde, blue-eyed actress to say 'great genetics' is insane."
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Ishita Ranganath /
09:10 pm on
29 Jul