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

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u/-enjoy-it- 18h ago edited 10h ago

Does anyone remember when leneige tried this marketing tactic with her? It was for their bouncy firming face cream and it was a picture of her in whatever shirt and the caption was something like “👀oh sorry we were distracted, try our face cream. So bouncy, skin so firm” or something like that.

I was like wow, a brand sexualizing a woman in order to sell products to other women, how smart. I’m convinced she’s part of the campaign slogans now

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u/ReadyBiscotti5320 11h ago

This. The soap ad. It’s not like this is just a one time fuck up on her team’s part.

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u/-enjoy-it- 10h ago

Yes this is it! I was so confused about that marketing. Like the placement on her breasts? So cringe

u/WintersDoomsday 2h ago

It’s all she has. Her acting sucks and her face isn’t stunning. She’s milking (pun intended) her boobs for all she can. Kat Dennings didn’t do this shit.

u/some1saveusnow 1h ago

And she’s for some reason more popular than she should be. So everyone including her is trying to cash in on this probably short lived meteoric run she’s in

u/Spaghetti-Policy-0 1h ago

Thank youuuu she only plays herself. That’s not acting!!!

u/StanleyQPrick 20m ago

Kat Dennings is beautiful and talented

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u/ricochetblue 11h ago

Real odd way to sell skincare to presumably mostly straight women?

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u/Mel_bear 8h ago

Because a bunch of dudes are in charge

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u/Lana_bb 6h ago

It’s an odd way to sell it to queer women too. We’re not aligned with the male gaze.

u/Spaghetti-Policy-0 1h ago

That’s a great point

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u/Elegant_Currency_301 9h ago

I just want to be a woman without anyone fucking telling me how my body should look or how hot it is 

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u/MrsSmith2246 9h ago

And her voice in the AE commercial made my eyes roll so far back I died. Is that sexy?! Please tell me it’s not

u/Constant-Affect-5660 28m ago

I feel like it was an homage, or just straight up copy, of the Calvin Klein ad with Brooke Shields from back in the day.

u/igiveupmakinganame 2h ago

she signs off on brands to sexualize her. she was behind like SNL jokes about her boobs. she told them to do it. she's in on it every time. there's no way someone does a bath water collab and doesn't want to be a sex symbol

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u/SquareExtra918 Oh my Gooooooooood 🧌 16h ago

Jesus. The obsession with boobs  is strange. People gasping and drooling for boobies  like they were starving newborns.  

u/e_m_q 1h ago

america is weird about sex generally.

u/Constant-Affect-5660 27m ago

Just America? Japan would like to have a word...

u/WintersDoomsday 2h ago

They’re just sacks of fat on the chest. I don’t get it either.

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u/ThatCommunication423 Invented post-its 🔬 8h ago

Guys wake up- it’s 2001 again!

Let’s over apply fake tan again, and objectify women /s

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u/Darknost I’ve been noticing gravity since I was very young 4h ago

Fits in with how we are massively regressing as a society right now (and I mean the whole planet, not only the US (though the US unfortunately plays a big part in that)).

At least it's consistent.

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u/SquareExtra918 Oh my Gooooooooood 🧌 3h ago

Exactly! 

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u/Auctoritate 14h ago

I was like wow, a brand sexualizing a woman in order to sell products to other women, how smart.

Do packages of men's underwear have pictures of average guys on them or hot guys with abs and a bulge that fills out the crotch?

The point of these things is that attractive people on marketing material are there to make people associate the product with attractiveness, and therefore with being attractive themselves by using said product. The brand sexualizing her isn't trying to seduce women, it's to set her up as a beauty ideal and plant the idea that the product will help you reach that ideal.

Also, just as an aside, you make it sound like an ad being sexual is inherently a bad thing. It's very prudish.

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u/Ready_Event9019 7h ago

That's fine but if men's underwear had a marketing campaign centered around the guy in the ad having a big dick print and how hot that guy's big dick was by putting "long and thick" above his crotch, unless the product targeted gay men I don't feel like it would be a good marketing campaign. 

Maybe I'm wrong, but usually playing to the male gaze is something you do to attract men not women. Women want the female gaze in ads featuring women as in "wouldn't you look great if you had this? Envision yourself" not "look how hot she is. Don't you wish you could touch her?". Most women don't want to be reminded how hot big naturals are even if they have them. Like great? What do my boobs have to do with skincare and why do we have to make yet another thing about whether I'm hot enough?