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You Come at the Sweeney, You’d Best Not Miss – HotAir

Gracious goodness, didn’t this just crack me up.

The smug, slouching creature with the bad Prince Valiant coif, garbed in a puke-green cotton t reminiscent of a slacker Star Fleet Academy cadet who’s graduating at the bottom of her class but will hint broadly to everyone she missed Valedictorian by half a point, is the features director at GQ





Her name is Kat ‘Rhymes With AWFL‘ Stoeffel.

I am the features director at GQ, where I edit celebrity cover stories, narrative features, and profiles. I also commission and edit service packages, trend stories, and essays. Features that I edited have been recognized by ASME, the Society of Professional Journalists, and the Newswomen’s Club. I previously worked at Bustle Digital Group, ELLE, The Cut and The New York Observer.

Her interview subject, in cowboy boots, short dress, tousled hair, and a complete air of knowing exactly who she is and what she’s about, is Sydney Sweeney.

Like you didn’t know, right?

Even if you didn’t, as Sweeney is something of a gorgeous chameleon – all-American next-door girl one minute and glamorous red carpet vamp in scandalous evening dress the next – you would be hard pressed to find the person who didn’t know about the American Eagle ad and ‘good jeans’ controversy of some months ago.

Worse than the sly ‘ good jeans’ verbiage in the ads was the fact that President Trump posted about it.

You could hear progressive heads sizzling and lighting off like bottle rockets, even as American Eagle’s once moribund stock took off like a Roman candle.

Americans – more importantly for the jeans company, American women – loved the campaign.

Progressive heads are still simmering and smoldering away in disgusted rage (and schmaybe more than a teensy bit of jealousy), as this patio tête-à-tête between the faux-friendly, Ivy League-educated AWFL Stoeffel (Brown University grad) and what I’m assuming she assumed would be easy prey, Idaho Panhandle Sweeney, proved.





Let me just say that Stoeffel’s body language is complete cringe throughout.

Here she asks Sweeney about Trump’s post.

Stoeffel’s building up for the kill moment here, as disingenuously as I guess she’s capable of, but it’s damn excruciating to watch in its tongue-tied, prevaricating awkwardness. Meanwhile, Sweeney is having none of it, remaining pleasant but answering questions directly.

Then, the most beautiful, surgical blocking maneuver I’ve seen executed in forever happens, and Stoeffel is at a loss for words.

Do listen, but watch as well. Sweeney’s slight head tilt is one for the ages.

THE CRITICISM IS WHITE PEOPLE SHOULDN’T JOKE ABOUT GENETIC SUPERIORITY 

…and I’m giving you a chance to grovel.

In the three gruesome minutes that have been released, Stoeffel works like an itchy dog to get around Sweeney’s calm, affable, impenetrable demeanor, and cannot crack the nut to save her overeducated life.

GQ: “I would probably feel thankful that some very powerful people had my back in public. I wondered if you felt that way?”

SWEENEY:I didn’t have that feeling.”

GQ: “There’s a chance that somebody will get some idea about what you think about certain issues and feel like, I don’t want to see Christy because of that. Do you worry about that?”

SWEENEY: “No.

GQ: “Is there something that you want to say about the ad itself?”

SWEENEY:The ad spoke for itself.”

GQ: “The criticism of the content was basically that maybe specifically in this political climate, white people shouldn’t joke about genetic superiority … I just wanted to give you an opportunity to talk about that specifically.”

SWEENEY:I think that when I have an issue that I want to speak about, people will hear.





The young lady is unflappable.

All of the observations in this Xweet are true. Stoeffel was a smarmy squirm a minute. Sweeney was cool as a cucumber.

This is also AWFL true.

Of course, Sweeney is now being savaged in the media, and the online rage mob is riled back up.

Sydney Sweeney’s Response to ‘Genetic Superiority’ Question Sparks Backlash

Sydney Sweeney has come under fire for her response to a question about the fallout over her American Eagle denim campaign, an advert that sparked one of the year’s biggest online culture wars.

…The campaign had the tagline, “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans.” This line prompted backlash online and sparked discourse about racism and eugenics.

Her response to Stoeffel has quickly sparked backlash online, as people argue that the interview was an opportunity to address racial concerns and condemn racism.

Social media user @moonroses wrote on X in a post viewed over 50,000 times “sydney sweeney getting the opportunity to denounce white supremacy and not taking it plus saying “when i have an issue i want to speak about , people will hear about it” yeah f*** her.”

One post from the account @KantInEastt on X viewed 2.9 million times reads in part: “Now I understand why people hate her.”





SHE HAD HER CHANCE TO ATONE AND BLEW IT

When the exact opposite is happening among normal folks. Most everyone else has a case of ‘good for her’ for not bending that knee.

It sort of harkens back to all those movies where the nerd girl or guys triumph over the sorority/fraternity snobs, and everyone walks out of the theater feeling like maybe it could really happen…someday.

Not in a fairy-tale, confectionery Romie and Michelle set up, but surely we’ve all wanted to sing Toby Keith’s How Do You Like Me Now? anthem to someone. Surely we’ve done it in our heads once or twice to old adversaries.

Here, it’s happened in real time, becoming the myth of memes… 

…and admiration almost immediately.

Overwrought, sanctimonious, preachy, Ivy League social justice warrior prepares to vanquish lower than dogcrap farm girl next door, whose only asset is obviously her looks.

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles” ~ Sun Tzu

Note to overconfident AWFLs: swinging and missing can be deadly.


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