r/baseball • u/_HGCenty Seattle Mariners • 14h ago

Players Only Dodgers' Alex Call blasts controversial Sydney Sweeney ad

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.

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u/MEL0NFEL0NS New York Mets • Tampa Bay Devil Rays 14h ago

Why are Americans so prude?

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u/dionysios_platonist Seattle Mariners 14h ago

I get that Americans have different attitudes towards nudity than Europeans but these ads don’t just involve nudity, they’re also highly sexualized, a European could see that

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u/MEL0NFEL0NS New York Mets • Tampa Bay Devil Rays 14h ago

but these ads don’t just involve nudity

They actually have NO nudity...

they’re also highly sexualized, a European could see that

Sex has been used as a sales technique for decades. This isn't new. This has been going on for 30+ years

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u/OkTop9308 Milwaukee Brewers 13h ago

In the US, parents want their kids to see more wholesome content. We want to see girls and women playing sports, not promoting sports gambling in a highly sexualized way.

It is harder to teach respect for women with these kind of ads. Sydney Sweeney is appealing to the young men who are likely to get hooked on sports gambling. Sweeney is an equity investor of the sports gambling prediction site being advertised.

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u/MEL0NFEL0NS New York Mets • Tampa Bay Devil Rays 13h ago

It is harder to teach respect for women with these kind of ads

Part of Europe like France have actual naked women as advertising campaigns... Do they not respect women?

Or are you just a prude?

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u/JoDiMaggio Los Angeles Dodgers 12h ago edited 12h ago

Yes. We are prude. That is ok. America has literally been more prude (and admittedly ok with violence) than Europe since the Mayflower left port. I don’t understand why we have to be like Europe. It’s ok for different areas to have different cultures.

For example, prostitution is tolerated if not outright legal in 90% of the EU. It is only allowed in half of 1 of our 50 states in the US.

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u/OkTop9308 Milwaukee Brewers 11h ago

Oh - in France where a husband repeatedly drugged his wife so his friends could rape her? Yeah, that is not the American ideal.