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That dynamic became especially visible after Sweeney hosted “Saturday Night Live” in March 2024. Several sketches and promotional appearances emphasized her looks, and some right-leaning commentators declared that her popularity represented a rejection of supposedly “woke” standards surrounding attractiveness and femininity. A Guardian opinion column criticized that conservative reaction, arguing that Sweeney had been turned into evidence for an ideological argument she had not actually made herself.

The result was somewhat paradoxical. Some criticism surrounding Sweeney was not really aimed at anything she had said. Instead, writers objected to conservative commentators portraying her body and conventional attractiveness as proof that progressive cultural norms were supposedly collapsing.