Sydney Sweeney is our Marilyn Monroe?

Don’t Hate Her Because She’s Hot

Is Sydney Sweeny the new Marilyn Monroe? Watch her SNL Hooters sketch to see how she wins over most, infuriating a few

Sydney Sweeney in 2019 — Photo by Glenn Francis via Wikimedia Commons.

Why is Sydney Sweeney hot? An aging Hollywood producer/professor’s challenge to Sweeney fans instantly backfired.

“Flaunt what you got,” Sweeney, 26, once said of her many gifts. “Own it. Love them.”

Is Sydney the new Marilyn? Or a female Elvis?

Are the attacks on Sydney Sweeney making her the 2020s version of Marilyn Monroe? A Hollywood idol worshipped, used, or mocked by all?

Or is the crackling fire for Sweeney more like the meltdown earlier generations had over a young Elvis Presley shaking his hips?

The extremes coming from all sides combine sexuality, idolatry, fear, contempt, and a prideful envy. They often sound quite odd:

• Vogue asks, “Why Is the discourse around Sydney Sweeney’s breasts so unhinged?”
• Unheard wrote, “The war for Sydney Sweeney’s breasts: Do they represent the end of wokeness?”
• Shannon Palus, covering health and science for Slate, claims, “Sydney…