She wrote, “To start with—this is not about Sydney. I do not know her personally and this is not about tearing one other lady down. However I do suppose it is vital we discuss in regards to the larger image.”
She continued, “Let’s be actual: I’ve blonde hair, blue eyes and curves since I used to be a child. I used to be sexualized by the system // highly effective males earlier than I used to be even sufficiently old to grasp what was occurring. I have been there— marketed, minimized, misrepresented. So once I see a big-budget advert pushing this hypersexualized ‘All-American lady’ picture to promote JEANS, all I can suppose is… right here we go once more.”
“One other billionaire-backed fantasy being offered to us prefer it’s innocent nostalgia,” Courtney added. “Nevertheless it’s not…it is rooted in racism. It is also a recycled concept of womanhood created for the foolish male gaze and mass consumption.”
“We deserve higher,” Courtney stated, as she additionally referred to as out the unique advert for its depictions of an “underage” Brooke Shields. “We’re higher.”