A Tampa street interview is doing the rounds because one woman, after being shown photos of Sydney Sweeney and Lindsay Clancy, picked the actress.
Not the woman on trial for killing her three children. The actress.
Adam Francisco asked Riverwalk pedestrians who “hurts women more.” The clip that stuck is the blonde in the mint dress with the iced coffee. She did not know either name at first. Then she learned the basics: Sweeney, the star of a recent semi-nude sports-betting campaign she also invested in; Clancy, the Massachusetts mother charged with murdering her 5-year-old, 3-year-old, and 8-month-old in 2023. Trial testimony and filings describe her sending her husband out for dinner, then killing the children and jumping from a window.
The woman’s verdict: Sweeney.“She kind of sets a bad precedence for women,” she said. She cited the nude ad. When pressed that she was still ranking a modeling campaign above filicide, she landed on the line that will live forever: “It depends what side of the fence you’re on.”That is the whole argument. Not evidence. Not harm. Side of the fence.
Sweeney’s Novig ads drew athlete backlash this month from mostly left-leaning women for sexualizing women’s sport. Ads can be tacky. Sex sells. Some people hate that. None of that is the same category as three dead children.
The interview works because it is not a think-piece. It is a person, on camera, treating “bad precedent” as a heavier charge than homicide. Beauty, posing, and commerce become the injury. Actual bodies on a basement floor become a partisan variable.
The clip is funny until you notice the ranking. An actress in lingerie with a basketball is the threat. A mother who killed her kids is the footnote, depending on which cable network you trust.
Sides of the fence do not change the body count. They only change which story you are allowed to be more offended by.
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