Ben Shapiro gets roasted after attacking the masculinity of Harry Styles in a dress
While they certainly don’t deserve your sympathy because of it, it must be truly exhausting being a conservative sometimes. Not only do you have to come up with increasingly absurd ways to defend the truly indefensible behavior of Donald Trump, you have to constantly feign outrage over the most inane cultural issues. The latest target of this collective Republican ire is pop superstar Harry Styles.
In a new issue of Vogue, Styles boldly posed in high-fashion sartorial creations including a frilly dress. Rather than simply ignoring the photographs or perhaps exercising the good artistic sense to see them as the playful and harmless gender-challenging experimentation they are, conservatives encountered the photographs and promptly lost their minds.
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Candace Owens, one of the right’s most consistently bad faith talking heads, retweeted the images and said that society cannot “survive without strong men” and claimed that a “steady feminization” of Western men is weakening our civilization. The incredibly joyless take implicitly asserts that Styles is not “strong,” a ridiculous thing to say about an incredibly successful, critically acclaimed artist with the confidence to buck gender expectations. Her broader point about a conspiracy to weaken the west is so blatantly paranoid and unhinged as to be unworthy of honest engagement.
There is no society that can survive without strong men. The East knows this. In the west, the steady feminization of our men at the same time that Marxism is being taught to our children is not a coincidence.
It is an outright attack.Bring back manly men. https://t.co/sY4IJF7VkK
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) November 14, 2020
Ben Shapiro, one of the most prominent Republican voices on the internet and a reliable peddler of rubbish, retweeted Owens’s abysmal message and said that there is a “referendum on masculinity” and that denying it makes you a “full-on idiot.”
Using such apocalyptic language to talk about a few photographs in a fashion magazine would have once been the kind of thing that got one roundly mocked and dismissed as an unserious thinker, but the conservative movement has become so infected with conspiratorial thinking that it’s now commonplace.
Shapiro was apparently so incensed at the photos that he unleashed a lengthy Twitter thread on the topic to rant about “masculinity and feminity.” The great irony is that the diminutive, reedy-voiced Shapiro is the furthest thing from the Conan the Barbarian parody version of masculinity he advocates. If this is what he truly believes he should spend less time whining about other men online and more time at the gym.
This is perfectly obvious. Anyone who pretends that it is not a referendum on masculinity for men to don floofy dresses is treating you as a full-on idiot. https://t.co/cioUNBh4bi
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 16, 2020
Masculinity and femininity exist. Outward indicators of masculinity and femininity exist in nearly every human culture. Boys are taught to be more masculine in virtually every human culture because the role of men is not always the same as the role of women.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 16, 2020
The Left knows this, of course. The POINT of Styles doing this photo shoot is to feminize masculinity. Otherwise why would it be headline-worthy for Styles to don a dress?
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 16, 2020
The Left knows this; they openly say that gender is both important and socially constructed (which is why they tell you that a man can be a woman, e.g., despite no biological underpinning).
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 16, 2020
Predictably, Twitter was quick to swarm Shapiro with some well-deserved ridicule.
I’ll give Candace Owens and Ben Shapiro editorial rights to Vogue in exchange for DC statehood and four Senators for Queens.
— Waleed Shahid (@_waleedshahid) November 16, 2020
God I love when everyone collectively shits on Ben Shapiro I’ve never seen a person be more of universal joke than that sad little moron lolllll
— Christine Sydelko (@csydelko) November 16, 2020
This is the guy. This is the guy seeing himself as an authority on masculinity. pic.twitter.com/cryJd1cyMP
— Hansson Ⓥ (@hansson_mm) November 16, 2020
i wanna see ben shapiro squat 315 or he has to shut up forever
— kelbin (@pissboymcgee) November 16, 2020
BREAKING: People who adore man who dyes face and hair condemn man who wears dress.#CandaceOwens #Benshapiro #HarryStyles #DonaldTrump
— Rev. Michael Coren (@michaelcoren) November 16, 2020
Weeks after revealing he has never encountered a sexually aroused woman, Ben Shapiro has thoughts on masculinity. https://t.co/0gkNBDFqKt
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) November 16, 2020
Ben Shapiro is 5'4" but lists his height at 5'9".
That makes two places where Ben Shapiro wishes he had five more inches.
— Steve Hofstetter (@SteveHofstetter) November 16, 2020
Dear Ben Shapiro
Fuck off
Sincerely
A man who looks DAMN good in a dress— Dom Noble (@Dominic__Noble) November 16, 2020
ben you're 5'3, can't grow facial hair and weigh 100lbs soaking wet. if we can both be considered men, you should probably be a bit more open minded about gender expressions. it's clearly not as rigid a binary as you try to imply it is. https://t.co/K4lxYuByTa
— hasanabi (@hasanthehun) November 16, 2020
Since Ben Shapiro is trending, I want to remind everyone of that time he rage quitted a BBC interview. pic.twitter.com/ZhbBwS3pGE
— Coping MAGA (@CopingMAGA) November 16, 2020
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