Posted on 08/03/2025 4:45:54 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
She used Sydney’s rump for a trauma dump.
An ex New Jersey teacher-turned-lifestyle influencer is getting roasted online for turning Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad into a therapy session, with a post claiming she feels unattractive because of her skin color — and a repost of it, calling her a “professional victim,” went viral.
“For me, I can’t help but think about the 13-year-old brown girl who gets all of her denim at American Eagle, who already struggles to see her beauty and worth in a world that continues to value white, Eurocentric beauty standards,” said Payal Desai of Medford in an Instagram video on Tuesday.
Her clip was reposted on X on Wednesday by media personality Colin Rugg — with the caption, “The professional victims are relentless” — and it’s already racked up 10.6 million views and masses of criticism.
“If your self worth crumbles at the sight of Sydney Sweeney in jeans, I’ve got news for you: The problem isn’t whiteness. It’s you,” one X user wrote.
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Perfect response.
Pretty sure it was the Guggenheim Museum in NYC that did me in.
She insults her race. There are plenty of stunning African-American women out there. However, given what I’ve seen on the web lately, those “triggered” beings are not included in that particular Venn Diagram.
When my kids were young like this woman’s kids are, I was too busy parenting them to be worried about American Eagle advertisements.
Blaming self-inflicted pathologies on Whitey, as usual.
So did I.
Good question.
a lot of power in victimhood
they will never give it up
they could rule the world
and still complain about
being oppressed
These triggered/traumatized individuals for me call to mind intellectually, morally, and emotionally disabled people indicating their purity as a way to gain acceptance in a popular collective prestige, where equally dysfunctional individuals enhance their status by enabling the pathetic behaviors they observe. Instead of pursuing genuine accomplishments, all settle for the bowel movement of decaying ambitions and dreams.
You write papers that college students pay for?
Not everyone, white or otherwise, looks as pretty as her, but it’s not traumatizing to see a beautiful young girl in an ad. There have always been gorgeous models. You can’t allow yourself to feel traumatized because you don’t look like a model. We could all be depressed if that’s our ideal. Look decent for the occasion, be nice to others, develop some interests or talents, and you will have good self esteem.
They are always butthurt over something…
I STILL have nightmares about her teaching... and she was never my teacher!
Well, it doesn't help when your own people tell you you're unattractive.
She’s a red dot Indian.
Not attractive at all, either.. she could pass as a man, easily.
I am offended.
The original beginning, shown in the ad, shows a woman in a bed hugging a black dog. The dog scrambles off of the bed and the next scene is a woman buttoning her blue jeans. Is this sex with animals?
This scene is, for me and many others, “PORN!” I’m not the only one to see this!
The result is everybody is talking about it. The target of all ads!
This woman wants to be a victim but can’t quite make it. If she were blonde and blue eyed trying to get breakfast or lunch in a DC restaurant it would take her a half hour to even get her order taken.
Is Payal Desai an Indian name? Given how numerous Indians are now in the USA, and how many of questionable talent are in business, politics, medicine and entertainment... they should thank their lucky stars. Also, there are numerous good-looking Indians in media. There is Bollywood! Why complain about feeling ugly when some of the biggest movie stars are in the World are from the Indian sub-continent?
That building has always turned my stomach.
She’s NOT a black of any kind; technically, as an 100% dot Indian, she is classified as a WHITE woman!
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