PragerU Continues Its Streak of Getting Ratioed by Trying To Limit Men’s Fashion

PragerU Continues Its Streak of Getting Ratioed by Trying To Limit Men’s Fashion
Harry Styles leans into the camera grinning, dressed is sparkly large sunglasses and a sparkly top.

Notorious ultra-conservative YouTube channel and pretend college PragerU managed to get ratioed yet once again this thirty day period when they made a decision to share their very tired and uninteresting viewpoint on Harry Styles, and men’s clothing selections in basic.

Perhaps sensing there was controversy all-around Harry Styles’s gender expression, and yet completely failing to comprehend the real context of the dialogue (hint: It is about queerness and the borders of appropriation, not regardless of what 1950s nonsense this is), PragerU went with the classic aged male shakes fist at cloud acquire of “men shouldn’t wear attire.”

Clearly, simply because this is 2023, this performed out specifically the way you’d expect, with the internet hurrying to share photos of themselves in a vast array of dresses.

From the elegant.

To the merrily preposterous.

I really don’t know if they had been hoping to play the algorithm by publishing outrage bait, as their recent Twitter bio statements they’re issue to “severe censorship on Large Tech platforms” (for the reason that, you know, it need to censorship and not that people just aren’t purchasing their stale conservative grift) or if they essentially thought the world wide web would increase up to agree that of course, males in women’s garments is a grave risk to humanity. If the entire level of this was to up engagement then I guess we’ve offered them what they desired, because the responses to this set of tweets have almost certainly introduced them much more interest than they’ve had in quite a even though.

On the other hand, as far as conservative outrage machines go PragerU is very ineffectual at this level, and it is arguably a first rate trade-off just to see them get so thoroughly schooled by this kind of a assorted array of people today, all united in their knowledge that this take was so extensively silly.

Even the libertarians bought in on it to level out how what qualifies “men” and “women’s” apparel may differ extensively by time and location.

Since gendered garments, like every other part of gender roles, and without a doubt gender alone, is a social construct.

Severely, as persons have frequently pointed out, males putting on significant heels, wigs and make-up was the height of masculinity back in the founding father’s day. Not to point out skirts and tight silk stockings had been worn by all all those knights and rulers they admire from the parts of European historical past they keep up as becoming when “men were actual males.” You simply cannot worship one particular team that attire like that and denounce the other as the fall of civilization, pick a battle.

In any case, if you go to the original tweet you are going to be ready to obtain as fantastic an array of thirst traps as you’d ever would like to see, so we can all thank PragerU for that.

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