The Josh Innes Show - Why Do Unappealing People Hate Sydney Sweeney?

Episode Date: January 7, 2026

Sydney Sweeney is nude on the cover of W Magazine. Apparently, this has pissed off some folks. Why do unappealing people hate the pretty people? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All right, so I saw this story this morning about Sidney Sweeney, who I guess is on the cover of W Magazine, which is, I guess, a magazine, because I didn't know that magazines were still a thing. But this headline reads, Sidney Sweeney faces new outcry for nude magazine cover. Well, you have my attention. Let's play a couple commercials, and we will get into that. When the weather cools down, Golden Nugget Online Casino turns up the heat. This winter, make any moment golden and play thousands of games like her new slot Wolf It Up and all the fan favorite Huff and Puff games. Whether you're curled up on the couch or ticking five between snow shovels, play winner's hottest collection of slots. From brand new games to the classics you know and love.

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because it was such a gigantic hit. I'm intrigued by what this sequel will be, but look, I dug the movie. I thought it was fine. It wasn't the best movie I've ever seen. I think there were stretches in it that were way too long. I think you could have shaved 25 minutes. I really think 25 minutes. I don't know how long the movie was.

It was over two hours. you could have shaved 25 minutes out of this movie unless you wanted to keep the 25 minutes and make it more Sidney-Sweeney-Boning. If you wanted more Sidney-Boney in that 25 minutes, I'd be fine. There was way too much backstory being explained in certain parts of this movie

that were just way too long. I think you could have lost 20 minutes of the movie and it still would have been impactful and it wouldn't have eaten up as much of my time. But either way, they're making a sequel because people want more Sidney-Sweeney. But the story I am reading here is about Sidney Sweeney being on the cover of W Magazine. The actress appears on the cover without clothing, a bold look that has divided fans and critics on social platforms.

Well, doesn't everything divide critics and fans on social platforms? Isn't that the point of the social platform is for people to fight each other over dumb shit like whether or not Sydney Sweeney should be naked on the cover of a magazine? Some praise her confidence and career momentum, while others question the decision. timing and implications. What implications are there? Enlighten me. What implications are there for Sydney Sweeney being naked on the cover of a magazine? And oh, by the way, she's naked. You don't see anything. It's shadows and hands over titties. It's like sitting in like kind of a like the cover of striptease almost. The movie Strip T's if you look at the box for strip T's. It's kind of like that. Like big fucking deal. What are we doing? Like what are we mad about with this? It's like,

oh my God, can you believe that's Sydney Sweetie? She's not even naked. I mean, she's not even naked. I mean, naked, but you don't see anything. So are you really naked if we don't see anything? If I don't see your tit-tays or some beaves and some bush, whatever, like if I'm not seeing some T&A, are you really naked? Or is it just implied nudity? And implied nudity you might as well be wearing a fucking burqa.

But anyway, you can never be Marilyn Monroe, one ex-user wrote. She fell off bad, another one said, while the third person added disgusting, keep it PG. Sweeney in recent months weathered backlash over

controversial American Eagle denim campaign that critics said evoked racial undertones with its great genes pun and sparked broader debate about intent and interpretation. Look, that's all this shit is. People get mad at Sidney for two reasons for the American Eagle thing. And they also get mad because they think that she's become kind of this poster child for like right wing Trump people and all that shit. So then they lash out. The other reason they lash out is because she's pretty. What do we know about ugly people? They hate pretty people because ugly is just ugly. That's what ugly is.

So, like, when you get unappealing heifers out there and they see someone pretty, they get all worked up when someone pretty is on a magazine cover. Because generally speaking, women have a different reaction to beauty than men do and in good looks, I should say. Because when women see another pretty person, they hate that pretty person, unless it's like Taylor Swift and they're a Swifty or whatever. But a lot of times unappealing women do not like appealing women, and they will find any reason to tear down an appealing woman. Why? Because they're miserable hags. That's just what they are. Like, you get these unappealing people who will never be appealing, and they think that the pretty people are only getting the things they're getting in life because they are pretty. And what you end up with is this type of bullshit where people are worked up over a pointless story like this, over a magazine cover, where it's not like it's suggestive.

She's just naked. You don't even see the nudity. It's absurd. But that's how women are. That's how women operate. Women are catty and women hate pretty people. And it starts at a very early age. People, other girls hate popular girls.

They hate pretty girls. That's how they are. Part of that could be because we've spent years pitting women against each other, but women also pit themselves against each other. It's the same way like all oppressed and marginalized groups fight within themselves. Like how many different groups in the black community do you see fighting with each other all the time. This group's not black enough. This group is too black. This guy is way too. He wants to be white. He's a cornball. Whatever. Oh, this is a black guy that hooks up with white women. What a piece

of shit. It's not like these groups are just one group. It's a mass that is divided by different categories of infighting and different reasons for infighting. And that's what you get with all marginalized and oppressed groups, right? That's all the time. And that's what you get with people like Sydney Sweeney. What you get is she's very pretty, she's very popular, and for whatever reason, there's a faction of unappealing people that just hate pretty people and hate them because they are pretty. Now, men, men operate in a different world. Men don't give a shit. I never knew a guy in school or as an adult or anything, but like, I never operated in a world where I hated good-looking guys.

Never. Never wanted to blow them either, but I never hated them. As a guy, I admire good-looking people. And as a guy, we should admire good-looking people, right? Like, a woman will look at some, you know, good-looking woman who's a movie star and say, she's only famous because, you know, she's good-looking. She's not even good at what she does. You ever notice that no matter what, a pretty person cannot be both pretty and good at something?

like there will be I've talked to people who themselves are appealing people like I have friends that are you know in entertainment or like do news or whatever and I'll hear people who are good looking people themselves ripping other good looking people saying well they only have that job because they look good on TV I'm like well I mean they're not going to throw ugly people on TV usually that's how it works people don't want to look at unappealing heifers on TV so you're a good looking person too but like that's just how these people operate and you see it all the time. And particularly, you see it with women. With dudes, you don't see it. When I see a good-looking guy on a magazine cover, I don't go, fuck that guy. Like, I'm like, I wish I looked like that. That's a good-looking dude. Or maybe I don't wish I look like that, but good for him. Like, guys don't hate dudes for being good-looking.

At least in my experience, if you think I'm wrong, you think I'm wrong. But in my experience, I don't recall ever in my life hating someone because they're good-looking. Even in the era where you should, like where you're, you know, 11, 12, 13 years old. and like there's the popular jock and he gets all the girls or whatever and you're like fuck that guy I'm better I like dirty dancing I might not be as good looking as that guy but I know how to tap into the emotions of the ladies and if they ever gave me a chance then maybe they'd see it but he's a shallow piece of shit and he's just good looking like I never hated anybody for being good looking ever now I may have thought maybe they were uninteresting maybe I was a little bit deeper than they were but I never would have sat in there and gone I hate this guy because he's good looking because men don't do that. Women do that. Women are catty. It doesn't matter what field you're in. There will always be women judging other women, just like black folks will always judge other black folks and Hispanic folks will always judge other Hispanic folks and Asians will judge the other Asians because these are oppressed slash marginalized groups. And these groups find

reasons when they see someone else in their group thriving that they have to tear them down and basically paint them into a corner and say they're only succeeding because, of this. While you're only succeeding because you're kissing the white man's ass, or you're only succeeding because you're pretty, you're not even a good actor, but you're really pretty and blah, blah, blah. Like, the idea of hating people because they're good looking is fascinating. Like, I wish I were good looking. Like, I see Matthew McConaughey. When I see a good-looking guy, like I think Matthew McConaughey, if I had like a Mount Rush more of like good-looking celebrity guys, I'm more into guys who are in their 40s and 50s.

If I had to tell you the guys that I find good-looking, like I can't think of too many younger dudes that I look at that are like younger Hollywood stars today. Like I don't think Timothy Shalame is a handsome guy. I don't get it. Like Timothy Shalame, I don't hate the guy or I don't begrudge him. But if we're just saying, hey, who do you find hot? I don't think Timothy Shalame is that good looking of a guy. Maybe he is, maybe he isn't.

But I'm not into like the, you know, kind of wayfish looking twink build of someone like Timothy Shalame. Like that doesn't interest me. But what interests me is when I can have like an old school like salt and pepper hair type guy, like a little George Clooney, like a little Matthew McConaughey, guys like that, like just look badass, like older dudes that look badass. Those are the guys that intrigue me. I'm not, like, I can't think of any younger entertainer dudes that I'm like, that's a really handsome guy. Like, who's that dude that, that, who am I thinking of? What the hell's

the dude's name that's in the, in the Chad Powers, whatever that guy? Like, Glenn Powell. Everybody loves this Glenn Powell. Like, he's a good-looking guy. I don't see it. Like, I can see why women would. But for me, as a heterosexual man who has lustful thoughts about entertaining men who are sexy, he's not one of the guys I'd look at and go, yeah, I think that guy is sexy. But I think George Clooney is sexy.

I think Brad Pitt's a sexy guy. Basically, the entire cast of Oceans 11, 12, 13, I think are sexy guys. I like Matthew McCona. I think he's a good-looking guy. Like, these are the guys. You know who I think has a cool look about him right now? It's the fucking coach at Ole Miss. Wouldn't hit.

But I think he's got a good look about him. Sharp quality look. I like it. But like the idea that women like look at a magazine cover. Now, granted, this is also three quotes from people on here. So this is what they do. Like you take a media, a site or whatever. And they take a couple of quotes one way and a couple of quotes the other way and turn it into,

oh, there's a divided idea. about Sidney Sweetie. Everybody's got divisive opinion. Everything is a divisive story. Everything. You could put, you know, lady rescues cat from tree and there'd be some people who think it's bullshit and are pissed off about that. That's the way it works. There is no positive. There's no 100% positive thing that comes out of anything. I mean, shit. I did a story today on the radio show about a guy who got credit on the news today because he helped an old lady across the street in Detroit. Like she was walking across the street. The light was changing. So this guy ran out into the street and helped. her walk across the street. They did a full fucking news story about this guy, a whole news story. And I'm like, we're doing news stories about people that help somebody walk across the fucking street? Look, that should be a non-negative story. There isn't a negative that comes from that.

In an era where we're like, you know, everything sucks and everybody rips everything, like that's a story where it'd be hard to debate. What's wrong with that? You know, what is wrong with the idea of a guy helping a lady across the street? I read that and it instantly pissed me off. For two reasons. One, why is this a fucking news story? And two, I hold doors for people all the time.

Where's my goddamn news story? So everything's divisive. So when you read a story like this and you go, wow, there are some people that hate Sidney and some that like her? Wow. Well, yeah, because that's everything. Again, cure cancer and half the people are going to have a bad opinion about curing cancer. Anyway, more to come.