Sydney Sweeney and the Babe Factor | The American Spectator

The best movie of all time, Casablanca, has so many memorable lines that some pearls of wisdom get short shrift. Everyone can recognize, “Here’s looking at you, kid.”, “We’ll always have Paris,” “I’m shocked, shocked there’s gambling going on,” “Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she had to walk into mine,” and “Louie, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”

But one overlooked gem comes when Rick (Humphrey Bogart) and Captain Renault (Claude Rains) observe Rick’s ex-girlfriend, Yvonne (Madeleine Lebeau), arm in arm with a Nazi officer. “I see Yvonne’s gone over to the enemy,” Rick says. Renault responds, “Who knows? In her own way she may constitute an entire second front.” The notion that a beautiful woman could end an enemy occupation has been bolstered by the liberal outrage over hot starlet Sydney Sweeney, which has dominated the news media for the past two weeks.

Many civilians are baffled by the degree and duration of the furor. I am not. The moment I saw Sweeney in a tank top “inspecting” a Mustang engine while the camera ogled first her chest then her denimed butt, I knew the feminist media response would be explosive. As a Culture War correspondent, I fully expected the howls and hysterics, cries of racism, sexism, and the old reliable Nazism, which is exactly what followed.

Because the key to feminist conquest is to never retreat from the goal. And the goal is destroy the “white patriarchy,” and with it every pocket of white male power or pleasure, beginning with the eternal and natural appreciation for pretty women, specifically white women. Having branded this truth “the Male Gaze,” homely feminists and their unmasculine toadies set about disappearing any trace of feminine beauty from screen and page.

Initially a slow operation, requiring the denial of reality and even the self-denial of profit, the Left’s cultural advance accelerated under the effete male-bashing Obama Administration. The first boy-friendly fortress to fall was Star Wars. In Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (2015), Hollywoke Amazons not only made a sexless girl, Rey, the epic’s warrioress heroine, they turned the original swashbuckling duo who built the franchise — Luke Skywalker and Han Solo — into bitter old losers.

The first Trump administration could not enter the Culture War, beset as it was by the Russia-gate hoax only now being exposed, a groundless impeachment, and an overblown pandemic. So, the progressive progress continued unabated, and unafraid enough to launch the Transgender Movement, telling boys they can get pregnant while letting them slaughter girls who actually could in sports. With not a Rey in sight.

Last decade, feminism took a quantum leap forward, when corporations and social media joined the march against men, especially white men. I can pinpoint the exact moment this happened. In fact, I did — in my sixth article for this magazine, blasting the 2019 Gillette commercial that attacked its own customer base for Toxic Masculinity. There had never been such a thing before, yet it was only the first of many.

For those who don’t remember the ad, one bit showed a young black man restraining a young white man from following a cute girl on the street, absent any indication he intended anything worse than to chat her up for a date. As for the young lady “saved” from her possible future husband, she may have been the last pretty white actress to appear in a commercial — albeit a woke anti-male one — until last month.

My Miami neighbor Carmen is a pretty white actress, a Hollywood expat like me. Carmen was making a great living in LA doing commercials for major products — Home Depot, Office Depot, Purina Cat Chow, Volkswagen, many more. Then, early in Trump’s first term, it stopped. Pretty white girls were no longer wanted. The Male Gaze would be forcibly averted.

“I was booking my whole life, five days a week,” Carmen said. “That started to change in 2018. I began booking two days a week, then once every other week, then once a month. By 2019, it disappeared.”

Hurting the career of pretty white women like Carmen is mostly collateral damage to the main feminist target — white men. They don’t get to enjoy the sight of hot women, not even to spend their money on a product like a razor or a beer. “You want a beer,” Bud Light told them two years ago, “Check out Dylan Mulvaney. That’s as sexy as you’ll get from us. Hubba-hubba.”

Feminists also loathe white women who appreciate white men and their own sexuality, and may want to be wives and mothers, and not be miserable cat ladies like them. Former actress turned conservative firebrand Natalie Jean Beisner suggested as much on X, commenting on the Sydney Sweeney uproar. “They hate white women,” Beisner posted. “They hate good-looking, happy white women. And they get off on seeing racism everywhere except in the mirror.”

This is why the leftwing media meltdown over Sydney Sweeney had to happen. With one wiggle of her butt, she reversed ten years of feminist planning and banning, letting them know hot women and real men are back in style in the age of Trump. And that’s one more nail in the green-haired harpies’ coffin. The word on the street is Sydney’s a Republican.

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