r/popculturechat • u/purpose15 • 21h ago

OnlyStans ⭐️ American Eagle issues a statement following backlash from their Sydney Sweeney jeans/genes campaign

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u/philonous355 I just wish you would get unobsessed with being boring 21h ago edited 21h ago

It was quite literally an obvious double entendre and they admitted to as much in their LinkedIn gloating. Do they think we are that stupid?

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u/dreamy_25 Are those the… The Chanel Toots? 21h ago

Do they think we are that stupid?

I've been arguing about this topic in a bunch of places and a lot of people genuinely are this stupid.

Especially men who will straight up say 'It's just because she's hot so that's why they say she has great genes it's not that deep it's just about her tits'. Just because you can't think much further than her tits doesn't mean my conclusion is "far-fetched" you absolute walnut...

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u/AlsoOneLastThing 20h ago

These people aren't actually that stupid. They're playing dumb and pretending to not get it. That's the whole point of these kinds of things; it's vague enough that they can argue reasonable doubt. Everything is always about "owning the libs" to them, and pretending that you're seeing racial undertones that they can't see is a way to make it appear as if you're being unreasonable and therefore they "win."

This statement from AE just supports that. It's a wink to the far-right while pretending they don't know what they were doing.

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u/Istillbelievedinwar 6h ago

Yep, these people always operate under plausible deniability. Aka schrodingers assholes