The reason Sidney Sweeney is dominating the culture so much lately is that she's done some interviews recently where she's clearly the opposite of a bimbo. She's sexual without it being quote/ unquote "whorish". By which I mean she's not doing it like the Kardashians. Where the narrative providing the context of their nudity is their personal sex lives. Sweeney’s sexuality is displayed in the context of making and selling her art. Which has always been treated at least somewhat differently.
And her sexuality doesn't come with a social agenda. She's not making a political statement with it. There's no lectures about empowerment. Obviously, I can’t read her mind. But the persona she presents is that she draws empowerment from a variety of other sources. Success as an actress. Success at school (she was her school’s valedictorian). And most recently her success as a producer. Her sexuality is presented as the vehicle of her success. Not as the source of her value. So she doesn’t need everyone to bite their tongues when women say they do this because it’s empowering. It’s not. It’s trading their sexuality for attention, and attention for a career usually related to use that attention to reflect it towards product promotion. And if they didn’t have the sexuality they’d be fairly unremarkable otherwise. But in Sweeney’s case the products she’s promoting are increasingly her own.
Having other skills means she doth not need to protest too much about it. She can just be normal and smiling and promoting her projects. And when interviews do veer off the promotion of the project she often just talks about how much she liked school.