The Scene From White Lotus Where Sydney Sweeney Is Troubled By Alexandra Daddario's Body Remains, All These Years Later, Utterly Preposterous

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The first season of White Lotus was excellent. It featured Sydney Sweeney and Alexandra Daddario, which is like watching pornography on your laptop while also watching pornography on your other laptop. Now, if you're the type of person who watches so much pornography as to need two laptops to satisfy that thirst, you're in trouble my friend. I won't sit here with a straight face and tell you I've never watched two pornographies simultaneously, but I did realize that it was a dark place to be and I weened myself back to one pornography at a time. 

However, one scene from the debut season of White Lotus has been lodged in my brain like a piece of pulpy mango between my teeth. It's the scene where Alexandra Daddario tries to bond with Sydney Sweeney and her friend, Brittany O'Grady, at the pool. These bitches are not having one second of Daddy's ice-breaking efforts, leading her down a line of questions that turns snide and mocking before she realizes the cunt vortex in which she's trapped. 

Her response? Shed the modest, matronly coverup to reveal the heavenly figure she hides beneath before slipping lasciviously into the pool for a baptism of bodily boasting. 

Here's my problem: Sydney Sweeney changes her 'tude toute de suite. The sneer she shares with her friend plummets into a jaw-dropped gape at Daddario's reveal, followed by a muttering of "oh shit." The implication is that Alexandra Daddario has put these girls in their place with her stunning figure. 

But… it's Sydney Sweeney. Earth to the casting director? You're telling me Sydney Sweeney has to pick her jaw off the floor by seeing another woman's body? ANYONE ELSE'S BODY? Sure, Alexandra Daddario is all-time, nobody is denying that. But if we were playing Family Feud and Steve Harvey said "NAME A WOMAN WITH AN AMAZING BODY," Sydney Sweeney is likely answer #1 on the big board. 

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It just seems like the pot calling the kettle sexy. Or the pot having body envy of another pot when that first pot is made of the highest-grade cast iron. It's All Clad envious of Le Creuset. And I'm simply not buying it. 

I've never rewatched season one of White Lotus, which means I've been thinking about this scene for three years. It's not that big of a deal, but somehow it feels regressive to me. We're to believe that Sydney Sweeney should be jealous of Alexandra Daddario's body? How, then, can we tell those with regular human bodies that they're perfect the way they are? Or something woke. 

PS- I wrote this blog to shoehorn "Sydney Sweeney," "Body," and "Alexandra Daddario" into one cosmopolitan ice cream sundae for clicks. But it doesn't mean I'm wrong.