Why female athletes lose their mind over Sydney Sweeney’s ad — but stay quiet on men in women’s sports

Sydney Sweeney is doing what Sydney Sweeney does. She is hot and she knows it. She is using her hotness to sell something. The something happens to be Novig, a sports betting app. So she’s holding footballs. She is not pretending to be an athlete; she is being a woman men like to look at. That is the entire point of the ad. Predictably, a posse of female athletes is furious. Former UCLA gymnast Gracie Kramer posted a training montage: “idk what Sydney Sweeney was doing, but this is what a woman in sports looks like.” Sydney isn’t claiming to...