Drag queen celebs weigh in on Harry Styles ‘Vogue’ dress backlash: ‘Men should be allowed to be feminine’
Harry Styles made historical past this week as the primary ever male to grace the duvet of Vogue’s December issue — and he did so in a periwinkle floor-length robe.
While many celebrated the duvet as a joyful expression of male femininity, outspoken conservatives resembling Candace Owens and Ben Shapiro tweeted their contempt for the journal’s cowl selection, with Owens pleading, “Bring back manly men.”
There is not any society that may survive with out robust males. The East is aware of this. In the west, the regular feminization of our males on the identical time that Marxism is being taught to our kids shouldn’t be a coincidence.
It is an outright assault.Bring again manly males. https://t.co/sY4IJF7VkK
— Candace Owens (@ActualCandaceO) November 14, 2020
But talking on her digital Yahoo collection The X Change Rate this week, host and aqua-haired drag queen character Monét X Change objected to such shade.
“I just don’t understand why they immediately jump to the feminization of men being a negative thing,” she stated throughout one phase of the episode. “Men being feminine is not the problem, men should be allowed to be feminine.”
Her friends, RuPaul’s Drag Race alum BenDeLaCreme and Jinkx Monsoon, additionally weighed in on the backlash. “If you were well-versed in the world of fashion, then you would know that it used to be masculine to dress in forms that we would now refer to as feminine,” stated Monsoon. “[Conservative straight people] don’t have any concept of how gender expression has evolved throughout the generations… to be where we are now, where men are confined to suits.”
BenDeLaCreme added, “The flip side of making the kind of progress that we’re making is that we have to listen to these idiots comment on it,” noting that shows just like the December Vogue cowl are, “ultimately, what’s going to get us towards where we need to go.”
Monsoon referenced an Instagram submit from activist and writer, Alok Menon, who identified the variations between how Styles was typically acquired and the way trans ladies of coloration are handled in the world: “Am I happy to see Harry be celebrated for openly flouting gendered fashion norms? Yes. Do trans femmes of color receive praise for doing the same thing every day? No.”
“We as the queer community, are allowed to feel both ways about it,” says Monsoon. “We’re allowed to be happy that this is happening and that someone of such prominence is breaking down gender boundaries and binaries in such a big way, and we’re also allowed to feel disappointed that it’s not a trans femme queer person of color on the cover of Vogue, because [they] have been breaking down these boundaries and binaries for a lot longer than Harry Styles has.”
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