Dodgers' Alex Call blasts controversial Sydney Sweeney ad

[u/_HGCenty]

https://www.thebiglead.com/dodgers-alex-call-sydney-sweeney-novig-commercial-soft-porn/

Since the last post about this got deleted because it contained a X screenshot, hopefully this one actually stays for comment.

[u/Three_Froggy_Problem]

It seems like Call doesn’t care so much that the ad is advertising gambling and just doesn’t like that it features a woman without enough clothing on.

[u/AerieElectrical3546 → u/Three_Froggy_Problem]

that IS a problem though, there’s no reason for advertisements that run on “family friendly” sporting events to be so sexualized.

[u/MakeItTrizzle → u/AerieElectrical3546]

"Oh no, titties!" is such a profoundly stupid and American take

[u/DegenerateWaves → u/MakeItTrizzle]

It's so dumb American brained. OTOH if you wanted to be more nuanced, I'd say it definitely objectifies women. Like Sydney Sweeney isn't "reclaiming" her body in that ad; she's using it to shill a shitty gambling app to a predominantly male audience.

[u/MakeItTrizzle → u/DegenerateWaves]

She can do whatever she wants with her body, shilling gambling apps is absolutely shitty though.

More kids will be harmed by gambling than by tits over the course of their lives and it's not even close.

[u/K20BB5 → u/MakeItTrizzle]

Fentanyl kills more people than Gambling and it's not even close. 

[u/MakeItTrizzle → u/K20BB5]

Oh shit I missed the part where I said gambling was worse than drug overdoses.

Can you point me to the part where I wrote that? Thanks.

[u/Shock_city → u/MakeItTrizzle]

pretending the saturation of media with sexualized content hasn't impacted society or kids is such a profoundly stupid take.

[u/MakeItTrizzle → u/Shock_city]

Sex in media is probably the least damaging thing for kids in media in 2026 unless you're a puritanical weirdo

[u/Shock_city → u/MakeItTrizzle]

Disagree. The sexualization of every aspect of life through the media has very tangible consequences for kids. Including it's role in helping make kids more susceptible to being sexualized through sexual abuse and sex trafficking.

You can ask many of the young (often teenaged) woman with onlyfans accounts why they pursued them and you'll be told if society is going to sexually objectify women like me at every opportunity for a profit anyways, why shouldn't I be the one to make money from it at least?

I'm not puritanical but my partner is a social worker who advocates for minors who are victims of abuse. Most of these kids form much of their outlook on what's acceptable from the media, which tells them sexualizing everything is acceptable, so they kids allow themselves to be sexualized.

[u/MakeItTrizzle → u/Shock_city]

"I'm not puritanical"

Yeah okay

[u/Shock_city → u/MakeItTrizzle]

"If you're not down with little kids watching a nearly naked Sydney Sweeney being dog walked on her hands and knees around a set you're puritanical"

Sounds like something you'd hear on epstein island

[u/MakeItTrizzle → u/Shock_city]

Lol yeah that's what I said. Keep clutching those pearls, babe.

[u/Shock_city → u/MakeItTrizzle]

That's exactly what I'm criticizing the MLB for airing and you're calling me puritanical for it, so yes, that is what you're saying.

Keep white knighting for the MLB airing super sexualized content to kids, babe. It's an awfully weird thing to defend if you ask me.

[u/MakeItTrizzle → u/Shock_city]

Well of course it's weird in your opinion, you think anything sexual is tantamount to raping children. Which is a totally normal conclusion to which to jump.

Hopefully you never have any of your own, you might slip up and smooch your wife by accident, permanently scarring them for life.

[u/Shock_city → u/MakeItTrizzle]

In what context is defending exposing kids to highly sexualized content not weird lol? You seem to think there's a world where you whiteknighting for kids watching this ad is normal, there isn't.

So a kid seeing me smooching my wife = a kid watching a nearly naked model crawl around on her hands a knees. holy shit you're a strange ranger with these kinds of takes.