Gown out on a limb
Righty ripped after calling Harry’s Vogue dress unmanly
Dissing dudes in dresses is not in vogue.
So say the celebrities who came to Harry Styles’ defense after conservative author Candace Owens slammed the musician’s Vogue cover in which he’s sporting a gown.
On Friday, Styles (inset) made headlines around the globe for becoming the first man to grace the cover of U.S. Vogue by himself — and for being photographed in a stunning Gucci dress.
The cover quickly went viral, and fans all over the world took to social media to praise Styles for his unconventional choice of, well, styles.
Owens — the 31-year-old Black conservative commentator known for her “proud” support of President Trump and for her attacks on the Black Lives Matter movement — was not one of them.
In fact, she slammed the 26year-old British superstar for what she saw as an “outright attack” on masculinity.
While Styles told the magazine that, “Clothes are there to have fun with and experiment with and play with,” Owens, somehow, traced a parallel between his Gucci number and children learning Marxism.
“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,” she tweeted. “Bring back manly men.”
Owens was praised by some popular conservative voices, such as Ben Shapiro and Donald Trump Jr., but her take on Styles’ Vogue cover energized fans of the singer, of fashion, and of people who simply don’t agree with her definition of masculinity.
“You’re pathetic,” actress and filmmaker Olivia Wilde tweeted, encapsulating the general consensus in just a few characters.
“I think you’ve missed the definition of what a man is. Masculinity alone does not make a man. In fact, it’s got nothing to do with it,” added “Lord of the Rings’ star Elijah Wood.
“Our whole lives boys and men are told we need to be manly. Life is short. Be whatever the f—k you want to be,” wrote “Scrubs” star Zach Braff.
Jameela Jamil, who earlier this year canceled an appearance by Owens in her podcast over an anti-transgender tweet, wrote that, “Harry Styles is plenty manly, because manly is whatever you want it to be, not what some insecure, toxic, woman-hating, homophobic di——ads decided it was hundreds of years ago. He’s 104% perfect.”
Emmy and Grammy Awardwinning comedian Kathy Griffin, known for her controversial attacks on conservative pundits, simply predicted the backlash.
“Candy Owens doesn’ t know what she in for going up against the Harry Styles stans,” she wrote.