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⌈ Secret Post #5886 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT - If you don't think there's anything brave or cool about an extraordinarily famous young guy who has been packaged by the industry as a heartthrob for millions of girls and women gradually incorporating non-gender-conforming elements into his personal image without giving in to the pressure to explain his entire identity for public consumption, then I don't know what to tell you.

I was never even slightly a 1D fan, and I can only name ten Harry Styles songs, max. I still find his casual insistence on just fucking presenting himself how he wants to and not explaining it for people to be extremely cool of him.

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly? No I don’t.
If he did it in the early 2000s maybe I would. Doing this when Genderless is a trend, after RuPaul’s, Elton John redemption arc and all? Ehh I think he is just pandering to a very obvious market. Because it’s his artistic view, well, could be. Not saying he wants the pink money or anything. But it’s hardly revolutionary either.

[(Anonymous)]

He could market to any audience; why choose that one if doing so would mean being phony? Despite what reactionary Fox News handwringers want to believe, gender nonconformity is not universally appealing with great perks and beloved by all.

[(Anonymous)]

Nayrt, but people can follow trends or think something seems like it would be amusing to dabble in without being "phony." It's called having a phase. And ayrt has a solid point in that this kind of thing would have been brave in the early-mid 2000s, when popular male musicians who presented kinda feminine DID catch flack for it, but you simply don't see the kind of judgment or hostility being aimed at it (if it's a thin, conventionally attractive guy) that you did back then. I was a teen in the 2000s; Harry is being received MUCH more positively by the mainstream in 2023 than, say, the emo-band guys who wore a shit-ton of makeup all the time were received in, like, 2004. And being slightly femme does in fact sell really well to the teen-girl audience that Harry's music is mainly marketed towards. I don't doubt that he's being authentic in choosing clothes he likes, but I also don't think that there's any danger of it negatively affecting his career or image at all.