Brad Pitt looks better than I do. So does Richard Gere, Marlon Brando and Paul Newman.
If you put my face next to theirs and asked 500 people to rank our physical attractiveness (leaving my mother out of it), all 500 would say any of them looks better.
Does that bother me? Of course it does! I couldn’t stand my curly hair and sturdy nose growing up. Who wouldn’t want to look like Brando?
So, as I watch the ugly food fights over the Sydney Sweeney “jeans/genes” commercial for American Eagle jeans, I can’t help but wonder: What’s wrong with being objectively beautiful? What’s wrong with admitting the scientific fact that our physical traits come from our genes?
Apparently, Sweeney’s problem is that she’s white, so the leftist woke brigade is trying to turn her into a eugenics-promoting Nazi.
But any woman of any color can be blessed with an elevated beauty gene. Would we be seeing such an outcry if the woman in the American Eagle ad was a beautiful black actress?
Of course not.
I suspect that what may bother some people is that we’ve made such a big deal of “equality” and “inclusiveness” in recent years, it’s hard to stomach the simple notion that some people may be more physically attractive than others.
Well, those people exist. I see them all the time.
But in an era when no one’s allowed to have their feelings hurt and everything comes down to scoring points for your political team, logic and common sense have no place. Indeed it was amusing to see the woke brigades go bonkers over the weekend because they discovered that Sweeney had registered last year as…a Republican!
I guess that was final proof that she’s a Nazi.
Ironically, by making such a fuss over Sweeney’s physical appearance to weaponize it for partisan warfare, her detractors ended up undermining one of the great truths of life: Real beauty is on the inside. It comes from our characters and our personalities, our ability to bring joy and laughter to those around us, our facility to attract others by radiating warmth and love.
That kind of beauty has less to do with our genes and more to do with how we were raised, whether your name is Brad Pitt or Sydney Sweeney.
