Sydney Sweeney Calls Out Hollywood Industry

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Sydney Sweeney Calls Out Hollywood Industry's "Women Empowering Other Women" Stance: "All Of It Is Fake" https://t.co/qZ7KpRbTOK
- Deadline (@DEADLINE) November 14, 2024

Sydney Sweeney is calling out some people in the Hollywood industry who tear another woman down privately while publicly proclaiming they are empowering women.

“It’s very

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[theactualworst]

Damn y’all are mad this morning but I believe what she’s saying. Misogyny isn’t just a straight male problem unfortunately.

[saturdaysinbed]

yet she excepts herself from it by "not like other girls"ing herself by saying she's not a person that sits around and talks shit about women behind their back while vaguely talking shit about women as an entire gender to a journalist. the call is coming from inside the house.

[theactualworst]

Talking about general systemic issues isn’t the same as talking shit about your friends or a specific coworker but ok.

I also went to the source and I don’t see how she’s “not like other girlsing” herself here. She’s making an observation we all pretty much know to be true and saying it’s disheartening.

[qaladriel]

I read it as her calling out the optics of 'women supporting women' without anyone actually doing the work to do that. That seems the opposite of 'not like other girls' to me. She's saying she wishes that were materially real.

[fernandocolunga]

it is true I guess in the corporate world - lots of women are pick mes in the sense they’d rather just go along with what their male colleagues propose than with what would be a potential upset to them but beneficial to other women. like we had a director at my firm who was desperate to be promoted to partner and that woman was nasty throwing everyone under the bus, like retention of women in her team was tiny and in the end it was just dudes.

[spiral_mystik]

Women have an internalized misogyny problem, it's true.

However, I'd take her seriously about this subject if she hadn't completely ignored Glen's gf's feelings during her PR cheating "scandal" with him. Yeah, women don't like you, Sydney.

[benihime99]

Glen and his girlfriend broke up during top gun promo and had broken up multiple times before. He was, of his own admission, "going through the aftermath of the break up" at the time

It was shitty pr, but the narrative about Sydney being some sort of temptress is tired.

[spiral_mystik]

Top Gun came out in Spring 2022.
ABY started to film in Spring 2023.
They were still together during that timeline as shown by his red carpet pictures. So he's full of it because he was claiming this woman publicly around the filming.

It was shitty pr
Yes. That's my point.
I didn't say that she fucked that guy (she seems to love her ugly fiance too much) or that she was the only one at fault. She just participated in a bs pr move that humiliated a fellow woman for her own selfish gain. So she's not the change she wants to be.

[jojito]

I think the blame should be on Glenn.

[sassandthecity]

A lot of women have the attitude that only one can be successful because that's how the system is set up. You can be both a perpetrator and a victim of the system. Look at all the Black actresses and how it used to feel like, and still sort of does, how only one at a time could be THE actress. I know Tyra Banks used to complain about how mean Naomi was and unhelpful and on one hand would it be nice for her to be more helpful? Sure. But on the other hand, given how a racist/sexist/ageist industry works, why would she want to hasten her own obsolescence

[anterrabre]

I would agree with the Tyra/Naomi thing except Naomi was also very particular about who she took under her wing. She had no problems with sheltering Kate Moss from a bunch of 90s ish (think of the whole "heroin chic" issues and the Calvin Klein ads and realize things would have been like 50 times worse if it wasn't for Naomi). Personally, while I think the "it can only be one" mentality might have played a part I think a lot of it had to do with personality conflict; Naomi did not like Tyra, period. And the reason why I say this is because Naomi went well out of her way to fuck with Tyra and her coins directly while having no smoke for the other top Black models of the time (Iman, Veronica Webb, Pat Cleveland, Beverly Peele, etc). I mean, she was getting Tyra fired from jobs and telling certain important industry folks not to work with her, it was so fucked up. Tyra is a mess but I feel for bb Tyra because she didn't deserve any of the shittiness she got. :(

[qaladriel]

tbh I feel similarity about a lot of 'empowering women' rhetoric. it's empty. lots of people will say that or use 'feminist' as an supplemental part of their identity rather than an action-based movement. as an autistic, queer, afab I find a lot of women who would otherwise identify as a 'girls girl' have limits when it comes to their meaning of that.

[ebenetwo]

So there’s this girl I’m no longer friends with but she used to love saying girl’s girl and all that but I heard recently she made out with her friend’s crush and I was just like… I knew you dat girl. So glad we’re not friends anymore.

Like drop everything at the drop of a hat for male attention kind of gal. Yuck.

[emptyobsidian]

Yeah a lot of the "girl power" rhetoric is so empty and sometimes even insulting. And its often spouted by people that I think would ditch me in a second if I was even the slightest bit inconvenient for them lol.

[zibbydoo324]

I haven’t met a lot of women who actually view other women as competition. I think it’s something that society perpetuated because men controlled the narrative and that is what they wanted/thought. Most women I meet are all about helping one another and sharing tips. Knowledge IS power and the best way to empower someone.