I heard this wild thing at my course the other day. My course is filled with ten other women, mostly in their mid to late 20s. I feel decrepit most weeks that I’m there but the most recent time? I heard this wild thing and I didn’t get a chance to respond to it there and then.

Before our next session started, a group of us were talking about going to see films at the cinema. Someone mentioned The Housemaid and most of the conversation following was about how loyal the book is to the film. I haven’t seen or read The Housemaid so I zoned out of this part of the conversation. That it until this crazy thing was said.

‘Don’t take your boyfriend to see The Housemaid, you can see Sydney Sweeney’s boobs.’

This is absolutely wild to me. That that was something actually said and believed by this young woman. Someone followed up with ‘Are you serious?’ and she confirmed. She regretted going to The Housemaid with her boyfriend. This is a woman who, by all accounts, is smart, successful, ambitious, capable, and very pretty. Worrying about her boyfriend seeing another woman’s breasts and what…? Worrying that he wants a fictional person more than his loving partner?

I don’t understand young people sometimes. Or the insecurity that they hold onto. And in writing this post I found a whole thread of videos on TikTok about Sydney Sweeney and this feeling that she’s taking all the boyfriends.

I’m sending out so much love to young women everywhere. You’re enough just how you are.