Harry Styles is gender critical

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Nice to see someone speaking out against gender pigeonholing without the need for navelgazing woke relabelling: www.distractify.com/p/why-does-harry-style-paint-his-nails?utm_source=dfy&utm_medium=fb&fbclid=IwAR3kxLXpQ0xNCYGQOJeJzSur5org15OKfeBW07o48iN31TtyT28eJRz-hOw

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Hmmm, it's very early Eddie Izzard (they're not women's clothes, they're my clothes), which was inspiring, but now he says he's trans (don't worry: he's happy with he or she pronouns, apparently).

The label of feminine or masculine is not something that Harry embraces. He wears clothing that he's comfortable with.

I'm so pleased to read this. This approach is exactly what we need in terms of role models and it is what GC feminists have been trying to get across.

A young man who is secure in himself and comfortable experimenting with different styles and fashions and wearing what he likes. Nail polish and lacy, delicate outfits are not 'feminine' or something that only women can or should wear. Men can wear them too and look wonderful.

Yes I admired Eddie Izzard when he didn't view women's clothing as some extension of a 'feminine' gender soul.

I hope Harry Styles doesn't go down that route. We need more men who are comfortable in breaking sexist stereotypes instead of reinforcing them.

Thanks @pullingmysocksup - that's working.

Oh, that's really good to see - how refreshing from the 'it's the lady part of me that wants to wear a slight block heel' horseshit from Sam Smith.

Great that he feels confident to present himself in whatever catches his eye. Be fabulous if he's confident enough to say I'm still a biological man & not label himself NB which is just another label under the umbrella.

Eddie Izzard previously identified as an executive transvestite. His words. Harry Styles seems to be doing the opposite but time will tell. He has lost a lot of the muscle he had at one point and looks much more effete than he used to.

He’s openly supported trans rights (and a number of other causes, gun control, black lives matter) and has a massive LGBT following. The most interesting thing he’s done recently was while refusing to define his sexuality he bluntly said replied to but are you queer baiting with his style and imagery with no. They didn’t ask his gender though. So who knows. I’d love a dress and behave how you want under 30 pop star to stick with I’m a bloke, my gender is male, isn’t my frock nice.

I very much doubt he would be gender critical.

His latest music is quite good

The rest of it I couldn't give a fuck about

What's queer baiting?

Queer baiting is a term that seems to be associated with celebrities latching on to parts of gay culture or hinting they're L, G or B for fashion reasons.

In some cases the critique is a sort of 'cultural appropriation' idea, but in the case of Harry Styles, I've seen a number of Fay men rather disgruntled at a handsome, flamboyant man being quite comfortable in not announcing to everyone what his orientation is, and they seem to think he owes them an announcement so they can claim and define him as fellow gay man or ally.

Frankly, I think a renaissance in 'Mind your own fucking business' is well overdue.

Obviously Fay is my autocorrect's bizarre rendering of gay.

Good Floral. Thought was a new word I was obliged to learn

Bringing back flashbacks to secondary school French and the endless vocab tests.

Well, my feelings about the word queer are well known, I would be quite happy if it is never used about anything to do with homosexuality again, except in documentaries about what a fucking awful term of abuse it is.

I thought you meant fey which would have been quite apposite

I guess the fact he's chosen to not say certain things that certain groups are desperate for him to say is, in the current climate, a beacon of hope.

Beamur, possibly yes. But actually the gay men in question aren't in the least bit fey which I think means feminine in manner. I suspect that might be one of the reasons they are a bit cross - ime, there are some gay men who get a bit ansty around campness and flamboyance because they are anxious to be 'straight passing'. And still other flamboyant gay men get cross with 'straight-acting' gay men because they feel like it's all part and parcel of denigrating homosexuality.

Basically, gendered behaviour is a tremendously complicated world, and always bloody has been, and these discussion have been going on in different spheres forever, way before the Trans movement thinks it invented it all.

From that interview he doesn't sound gender critical to me. Gemma Collins is though. She's always going on about being G.C.

Arf

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I doubt very much that Harry Styles is gender critical as that term is used on here.

Yes it's Pink News and has its own agenda but even so.

www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/10/17/harry-styles-waves-transgender-flag-during-washington-dc-concert/

www.google.com/amp/s/www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/05/harry-styles-fine-line-transgender-flag-trans-rights-new-album/amp/

I'm quite sure that if Harry Styles knows that his taste in clothes, hobbies or his personality don't have anything to do with defining his sex and therefore whether he should access a women only space, he's 'gender critical' as a feminist here would understand it.

He's not 'GC' in the way the denizens of the bonkers Twittersphere think means 'hates transpeople and plots their genocide', but then neither are we, so there we go.

I miss the eighties

I miss the late 60s/early 70s ...

I had rather assumed that any socio-political, would be GC statement made by Harry Styles right now was entirely tied up with his Gucci modelling contract ... Mutual benefit innit.