Sydney Sweeney and the Outrage Machine

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein

Matt Bernstein

Society & Culture, News Commentary, News

4.9 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Fine, here’s the Sydney Sweeney episode. Sydney Sweeney is Hollywood’s most-discussed starlet, often for confusing reasons. Her existence as a visible woman with a human body made her the target of widespread male adoration, ridicule, and political projection. How she navigates being the new Miss American Dream is yielding increasingly bizarre results — what’s the deal with her genetics? And the bathwater? In this much-requested episode, Taylor, Kat and I examine the 27-year-old’s relationship to wokeness (just kill me already), the line between sex work and whatever’s happening in her brand endorsements, and the right-wing media’s ability to induce hysteria over nothing. Listen to bonus episodes on Patreon! Thanks to today’s sponsors! Join the fight to get religion OUT of public schools at ffrf.us/school or text FREEDOM to 511511. Work smarter, not harder, with Factor meals ready in two minutes at https://www.factormeals.com/fruity50off Read more of Kat’s work at her newsletter, Spitfire News. Listen to Taylor’s podcast, Power User. Find me on Instagram. Find A Bit Fruity on Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Did you guys see that American Eagle is selling limited edition pairs of the Sydney
0:05.6	Sweeney jeans that have been washed in her bathwater?
0:10.1	Wait.
0:11.8	Are they?
0:13.6	Wait, is that real?
0:15.3	Matt.
0:16.9	No.
0:18.9	I made that up.
0:22.1	Let's talk about it.
0:34.9	Hello, hello, and welcome back to A BitFruy. I'm Matt Bernstein, and I don't care about Sidney-Sweeney. I don't care about Sidney Sweeney, and if you click this episode thinking, I too don't care about
0:40.9	Sydney Sweeney, then this is the Sydney Sweeney episode for you.
0:44.8	I usually pick episode topics based on what I care about and want to dive deeper into.
0:51.4	So this episode is sort of reverse engineered in that I don't care about
0:56.3	Sidney Sweeney. I have never cared about Sydney Sweeney. So my job here today is to try to
1:03.1	investigate why so many people are trying to get me to care about Sidney Sweeney.
1:09.8	Recently, the actor did a commercial for American Eagle jeans that I did not know about,
1:15.4	because like I might have mentioned, I don't care about Sidney Sweeney.
1:18.8	See, gay guys, we love to talk about celebrity women, but it's more like Lady Gaga or Jennifer
1:24.7	Coolidge or Beyonce.
1:26.8	Gay men don't really get together and hang out and
1:30.0	are like, let's talk about Sydney Sweeney. She's not for us. And that's okay. That's okay.
1:36.8	Or at least it was until last month when the entire right wing media apparatus coalesced
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