Sydney Sweeney Is the Latest Woman We Love to Hate, and It's Complicated
Why hating on the Christy star says so much about our current political worldview, misogyny, and celebrity
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I didn't plan to write about Sydney Sweeney today. Actually, I'd hoped to write about another celebrity whose career I know way too much about and rip apart on the daily: Taylor Sheridan. But when I saw social media light up at the announcement that Sweeney's latest feature, a boxing biopic about Christy Martin, massively failed at the box office and the responses to it I knew I had to comment. So, let's talk about the Sydney Sweeney hate train, how it's far different from the Emerald Fennell one, and what it says about our complicated world of celebrity (and women) today.
