Ben Shapiro Torches ‘Middle-Aged’ Taylor Swift, Theo Von, and Jennifer Lopez for ‘Masquerading as 17-Year-Olds’
The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro put Taylor Swift and Theo Von — among other “middle-aged” celebrities — on blast for “masquerading as 17-year-olds” on his show Wednesday.
After first taking issue with the “amazing looking 55-year-old person” and “grandma-ma” Jennifer Lopez for kissing a man and then woman in quick succession at one of her recent shows, Shapiro sounded off.
“There is this thing that’s happening in our culture where a bunch of people are masquerading as 17-year-olds who are actually middle-aged. It kind of is amazing. It really is kind of an amazing thing,” began the conservative commentator. “Like if you are of middle age, you should act like you are middle age. I don’t mean you have to be a fuddy-duddy. I do mean that you should act like an adult. Like you’re not a 17-year-old, or a 21-year-old trying desperately to gain attention. You see this with Katy Perry also, right? Katy Perry is also making a fool of herself doing her international tours right now. Being silly. And you see it in the lyrics of a Taylor Swift also who pretends to be a lovelorn 16-year-old girl, when in fact Taylor Swift is currently age 35.”
He continued:
But you see it all over the place. I mean, truly. You see in the manosphere, too. I see a bunch of people who are sort of in the podcast space, who are cosplaying at being 17-year-old Beavis and Butthead types, right? I enjoy Theo Von as much as the next guy — although I think that his political takes are insanely stupid much of the time, because I just don’t think that he focuses on that sort of stuff. And if you don’t focus on-, he’s not claiming to be an expert, that’s fine. But if you’re not claiming the expert, I’m not going to take your opinions on these matters particularly seriously. I mean, Theo Von’s a comedian. That’s fine, it’s also worth noting Theo Von is 45 years old.
Theo Von is four years older than I am. Theo Von is like-, in the olden days, Theo Von would be closing in on the gold watch and retirement, and he dresses like a skater who’s 16 years old, wears his hat backwards, and acts as though he’s a refugee from the stoners club in junior high. It’s a little weird. Again, he’s very funny. I’m not gonna-, I’m just wondering like-, and this is kind of the entire branding now.
It’s like there’s a whole generation of people who are 40 and up, who are acting as though they are 20 and under. And at some point, it’s got to become a bit of, “How do you do fellow kids?” Now, to be fair I’ve been 80 since I was like 15. I am a fuddy-duddy. I am a grumpy old man. I’ve always been a grumpy old man. I was a grumpy old man when I was a teenager. That said, there is something strange about a country that is rapidly aging in which because we are rapidly aging, and we don’t have enough kids, we have decided that adults are going to be the new kids. We’re going to treat 40-year-olds as though they are 20, and 60-year-olds as though they are 30. It’s a strange look. It’s very, very weird.
At a certain point, shouldn’t you just become a responsible adult, you know, able to make responsible decisions? Or are we just gonna do this forever? Is everybody just gonna turn into Madonna, twerking her way to glory with two artificial hips at the age of 92? That’s just a question, I suppose.
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