There is a demographic of people online whose sole joy seems to stem from calling objectively attractive women “ugly.” These keyboard warriors flex their unmoisturized fingers. They trawl the tabloids for female celebrities. They race to comment “mid.” The hotter they find the woman, the more vicious their comments are, which is why loads of guys online have recently responded to photos of a bikini-clad Sydney Sweeney by calling her “fat” or a “catfish.”
This is not the first time Sweeney has been subjected to strange and unwarranted comments about her appearance. (Memorably, the National Post called her boobs “double-D harbingers of the death of woke”.) She continues to laugh it off, with cheeky advertising deals and sketches on Saturday Night Live. This Friday afternoon, she posted a video response to body-shamers on Instagram.
The video begins with a collection of negative comments about her looks, then ends with shots of Sweeney at the gym, lifting and getting swole. Sweeney is starring as the boxer Christy Martin in an upcoming biopic, and clearly she’s making plenty of progress upping her strength. The fact is, she can certainly bench more than these miserable commenters do.
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