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    Sarah Ditum on Pop

    Dec 23, 2020 3 minutes

    SOMETIMES I WONDER if everyone’s heart is really in the culture war. When America’s top contrarian, Candace Owens, saw singer Harry Styles wearing an elegant cornflower-blue lace Gucci dress on Vogue’s December cover, surely even she felt a wave of tiredness at the inevitability of what she was about to do.

    And yet, relentless as gravity, the logic of the discourse compelled her to hit the tweet button and say her piece: “The steady feminisation of our men at the same time that Marxism

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