Sexual Communism Is Knocking At Our Door
What salivating over Zohran Mamdani’s wife says about the economy of hotness
Sydney Sweeney is hot and you’re not allowed to say it. Well, you are, and many have, but there’s a feeling that doing so is somehow transgressive. Insert Norman Rockwell’s “Freedom of Speech” here.
Tempers really flared when Sweeney herself acknowledged, via a jeans commercial, that she’s hot. It’s one thing to have blonde hair and blue eyes and a massive brain. It’s another to like those qualities.
The right, as filtered by my X algorithm, seized Sweeney for their own. She was an avatar of conservative cultural victory for having a good appraisal of her own sexual attractiveness and refusing to apologize for it.
The left has found their own avatar: Rama Duwaji, wife of New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.