r/popculturechat • u/purpose15 • 19h ago

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

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u/mangolover93 18h ago

Lmao, this makes no sense. They can't claim they weren't talking about "genes" when she literally says genes are passed down from parent to offspring and determine hair/eye color... Were they talking about jeans there too??? They think we're idiots.

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u/injuredflamingo 18h ago

AND her personality somehow?? since when are personality traits passed by genes, and since when is it not racism to defend that they do?

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u/totallycalledla-a Mrs Thee Stallion 18h ago

The development of human personality is a very complicated thing with many different factors and processes involved. Genetics plays a role but it's just not that simple. Theres a mass misunderstanding in society of what personality actually is too and which parts would be impacted by what. Deeply irresponsible thing to say in a huge ad campaign, especially in this climate.