What happened between Candace Owens and Harry Styles?

Kaylin Moore - Junior, Copy/News Editor / Claire Cranford - Sophomore | Totally News

On Nov. 13th, popular singer-songwriter Harry Styles announced that he would make history by being the first man to model solo on the cover of Vogue Magazine -- wearing a dress. Candace Owens, a conservative American author, immediately retaliated on Twitter the next day.

“There is no society that can survive without strong men,” said Owens. “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 ended her infamous tweet with the phrase, “Bring back manly men.”

Thousands of fans came to Styles’ defense, and soon Candace Owens was trending on Twitter.

Many Styles enthusiasts quickly came to his defense, including actor Elijah Woods, writing, “I think you’ve missed the definition of what a man is. Masculinity alone does not make a man.”

This prompted her to make yet another obscure, sexist comment on Nov. 16: “Since I’m trending, I’d like to clarify what I meant when I said ‘Bring back manly men.’ I meant: Bring back manly men. Terms like ‘toxic masculinity’, were created by toxic females. Real women don’t do fake feminism. Sorry I’m not sorry.”

Owens proceeded to call Styles “unstable” in a series of later tweets, citing famous singers Kurt Cobain and Freddie Mercury in the process.

“Newsflash, woke idiots: when you send me pictures of Freddie Mercury and Kurt Cobain dressed as women to prove your point, you are actually proving mine,” said Owens on Nov. 17. “Stable men do not wear ball gowns.”

On Dec. 2, a day after Harry Styles’ debut issue of Vogue premiered, Styles posted a photo wearing a frilly suit and eating a banana. The caption simply read, “Bring back manly men.”

Owens responded by tweeting a picture of Styles covered in mud on the set of the war movie “Dunkirk” with the caption, “#BBMM,” implying that war and combat are the true essence of masculinity.

Despite slander from Owens and other critics, the December issue of Vogue was a hit. It sold so well that there is now a waiting list for fans to order this historical issue. It seems like the rest of the world has no problems with Styles’ masculinity.