Harry Styles Responds To Candace Owens: "Bring Back Manly Men"

If you remember last month, which was, and I say this truthfully, only three days ago, you might remember a period between the presidential election and the coronavirus spike when Candace Owens was chastising pop-star Harry Styles for wearing a dress on the cover of Vogue. "Bring back manly men," she tweeted to the heavens, summoning the likes of Ben Shapiro and other conservative pundits to criticize Styles. The whole thing was just the sort of distraction no one needed at the time, re-litigating the same conversation everyone has whenever a male pop star wears a dress, which, in the history of pop music and society as a whole, is quite common.

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

Of course, for many online, the Owens' statements weren't just a criticism of Styles, but rather the idea of shifting masculinity, one that defines itself by fluidity instead of the rigidity of traditional norms. So Owens' tweet became a snowclone hurled around Twitter with pictures of men being men in dresses, bathrobes and being Ninja Turles characters.

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. pic.twitter.com/plXJf5G7HH

— hasanabi (@hasanthehun) November 16, 2020

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. pic.twitter.com/nXRRnOG29s

— Vincent Martella (@VinMan17) November 16, 2020

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. pic.twitter.com/h2GpsaazIA

— Daniel Radosh (@danielradosh) November 16, 2020

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 pic.twitter.com/YLfdqcjhin

— Diego Lopez (@thisdiegolopez) November 16, 2020

It took two weeks—which again, in 2020 means anywhere between two seconds and two years—but Harry Styles finally responded. In a post on Instagram, the former One Direction star, donning a powder blue, ruffled suit and munching on a banana, pleaded, "Bring back manly men."

The Styles-hive liked that. Since his post, fans have shared memes, expressions of support and jokes about Owens being obsessed with Harry. Aren't we all?

candace owens this year pic.twitter.com/uXwxIU6sDd

— sara ☾ (@fireawaylt) December 2, 2020

Candace Owens Harries

🤝

Obsessed with Harry Styles pic.twitter.com/Ado6cBN1Tv

— Rylie 🌨 is on limit (@Rylieloves1D) December 2, 2020

However, in a tweet that says, "I'm probably going to continue this conversation," Owens responded by posting a picture of Styles in the World War II drama Dunkirk. Got him? Until next time, then.

#BBMM
🇺🇸🇬🇧 pic.twitter.com/euvRMydjQc

— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) December 2, 2020