Do men know what women look like?

A famous woman is being torn apart online for her looks. It must be a Monday.

But this time, it's particularly confusing because it happened over a series of bikini photos captured of Sydney Sweeney where online trolls have decided she's not as hot as they once thought.

Their reasoning? Who the hell knows.

Watch Sydney Sweeney discuss the time an AFL player slid into her DMS. Post continues after video.

Sweeney was minding her own business in her own waterfront mansion in the Florida Keys. As she was lounging by the pool in (reminder!) her own house, she was photographed by paparazzi.

The 27-year-old was wearing a purple bikini and black sunglasses. She wasn't wearing makeup and didn't have her hair professionally styled because, again, she was in her own home.

(As these are paparazzi photos, we won't be platforming them anywhere in this article.) 

The response online was immediate. Men weren't happy.

"Too pale and she needs to lose a few pounds around the middle," one awful comment read. "Nothing attractive about her," added another.

"Whoever this individual is, she has a horrible body," another troll wrote.

Men called her a catfish, posting the paparazzi photos alongside her red carpet appearances… where she is wearing literal gowns and has spent hours completing a full-glam makeup look.

The growing consensus over the weekend was that Sweeney was 'mid', a descriptor often used to belittle women, like Margot Robbie, who is another supremely talented actress and businesswoman (and inarguably beautiful).

Thankfully, women (and a few men) have rushed to defend these women against this bizarre criticism from faceless trolls.

I like to think that somewhere Sydney Sweeney and Margot Robbie are looking at photos of me at the beach and saying I'm mid

— Andrew Fleischman (@ASFleischman) December 14, 2024

In the case of Robbie, she faced these 'mid' accusations right before the Barbie press tour kicked off. Then earlier this year, the Australian producer, once again, had her looks degraded after she became pregnant with her first child.

For Sweeney, she's been in training for an exciting new movie role playing boxing legend, Christy Martin.

Like her male counterpart, an actor's changing appearance is part of the gig, but when a woman, especially one deemed 'the sexiest woman alive', dares to change her looks, of course, men online behave like they are the judge and jury of women.

I just have one quick question: do men know what women look like?

Whether they're pregnant or toning their bodies to play a legendary boxer on screen, women come in many shapes and sizes. Yet men so freely judge women's bodies from the anonymous basement of toxic social media platforms *cough* I'm talking about X *cough*.

The Euphoria actress has mocked the response on her Instagram, reposting some of the most toxic comments about her body spliced against her working out in the gym lifting weights.

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Sweeney's iconic post has been praised by her famous friends in the comments. "You're such a badass. This movie is gonna be [fire emoji]," wrote her Anyone But You co-star, Glen Powell.

"It's always wild to see people publicly out-themselves as pieces of sh*t with comments like that," wrote Riverdale's Lili Reinhart. "You look incredible and your dedication to your project is very inspiring."

It's worth remembering that these disgraceful comments from men came about from images taken inside the confines of Sweeney's private residence, where she has the right to lounge around in bikinis all she wants without her body being digitally captured and transmitted online.

In one New York Post comment on X, the tabloid wrote the actress was 'showing off' her body. To this, someone replied, "Is it really showing off if someone's taking pictures of her from the bushes at her home?"

Filming on Sweeney's boxing biopic wrapped up in November, and it's an experience that the young Hollywood star considered life-changing.

"We have wrapped filming Christy Martin's story and it has been one of the most emotional, transformative experiences of my life," the actress wrote on Instagram last month.

"You'll witness a story that's as powerful as the woman who lived it. I'll carry this experience with me forever."

Feature image: Getty.