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

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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 be an athlete — she’s just being hot while holding sports balls.

Kramer said female athletes have been over-sexualized and forced to fight to be taken seriously.

Female gymnasts are taken seriously: Gymnastics may be the only sport on Earth where the women are taken more seriously than the men.

Kramer claimed the ad proves........

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