Someone needs to school Irish singer Brian McFadden!
The 27-year old appeared on a New Zealand radio show this week and, for some reason, the conversation turned to fashion, at which point McFadden boldly declared straight men shouldn’t wear pink. That’s a common enough argument, although a bit tired and trite. Good think McFadden grabbed our attention with his offensive explanation: “Saying pink is a form of red is the same as saying homosexual is a form of male.” If we’re not male, what’s with this penis?
The gays aren’t pleased, of course. Activist Robert Marshall remarked, “It’s the sort of stuff that gets said every day in the schoolyard. A lot of young people are quite impressionable, and when they see celebrities saying stuff like that, they think it’s OK to say it themselves.”
Meanwhile, doesn’t McFadden (center) look absolutely smashing mincing about at Sydney’s Dolly Teen Choice Awards? Fabulous, darling!
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Update: Well, look at that: Brian McFadden wearing pink. Gawd, what a homo!
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CitizenGeek
Wow, I can’t believe he said that. He’s largely hated here in Ireland, and for a while I felt sorry for him, but now I hope it stays that way!
fixator
Who is he..never heard his music and will likely not …
John In Manhattan
Never head of Brian McFadden but I do see an uncanny resemblance to Perez Hilton in this shot.
A member of a boyband making a disparaging comment about gay men. Oh, the irony.
The Milkman
Um, who?
Charles J. Mueller
There’s nothing as dear, as a self-loathing queer! *sarcasm font on*
Lost
Who?
And why is this person famous?
Jack
I wonder what Brian’s openly gay – and ‘civilly-partnered’ – bandmate, Mark Feehily, has to say about this…
Bob R
That’s Brian McFadden in the picture? With the crown and the silly school-girl expression? My question is, to quote Harold from Boys in the Band: “Who was she? Who is she? Who does she hope to be?”
Darth Paul
So says the tampon who married and spawned with Kerry Katona. Westlife was a sh!t group, anyway.
M Shane
I couldn’t agree more with #8 about the “school girl expression.” If that’s not A big queen, than I’ll swim the Channel. Either that’s a mistatement or he needs to pull train with a bunch of gay guys. I’d oblidge but he looks like a silly girl.
mark
Since I never heard of this guy before, and probably won’t in the future, what he thinks of pink or gays, I came THIS > < close to giving a flying f*ck.
Chanzelle Dubois
I wonder what his ex-partner from Westlife, Mark Feehily, thinks about this moronic statement from the one hit wonder gecko. Idiot !
Lexy
I’d hit it.
BD
WTF I have no idea who he is but he looks so gay!!
He is like Lary Craig get lots of dick on the side and acts straight. What a dumb sloppy bottom
BobP
Don’t know who he is but he’ll be history in five minutes. Four. Three. Two. One. Poof.
Bean
Me, too, Lexy. With a closed fist.
mark
Hes angry because he doesn’t have much of a gay audience because he’s um rather ugly and over-bleached.
Anonymous
Everything is homophobic to the gay communities. And you people whinge about equality. Equality for you is when you have your way and others aren’t especially if they have differing views. If you disagree with Brian fine. Get over it. Pffft.
MJ
McFadden and Westlife were mega-famous in the U.K. and Europe, but never really crossed over to the States. Feehily coming out was a big deal over there (following on the heels of Boyzone’s Stephen Gately), which has all had an effect on the growing “coolness” about homosexuality in formerly stuffy Ireland. (So eat that you ignorant gay Eirophobes).
Billy
No 18 “you people”?!!!!
before you comment on a website know who you are talking to otherwise I dont think many people will be swayed to your train of thought.
And what is all the fuss about? Pink is only a colour! If he doesnt like it stay quiet and the rest of us wont say anything about the colour of his hair…
John
I think this will turn out to be a misunderstanding as I don’t think Brian meant to cause offense. The statement that seems to have caused most offense is “saying pink is a form of red is the same as saying homosexual is a form of male.” It’s not a very clear statement I must admit, and hopefully Brian will clarify what he meant. The interpretation above is “homosexuals are not males” but I don’t believe this is correct.
Brian is responding to a caller who says that red used to be a masculine colour, pink is a form of red, therefore wearing pink is just as masculine as wearing red. Brian’s counter argument is that while pink is a form of red, that doesn’t change the associations with pink that lead him to make his original statement regarding who should wear it. If this is what he meant then it leads to the interpretation that “homosexuals *are* males.” But that being male doesn’t mean a gay man isn’t gay, in the same way that pink being a form of red doesn’t stop it being pink.
We can use this interpretation and add it into the statement above to see if it makes sense. “Saying pink is a form of red *doesn’t mean it isn’t pink* in the same way that saying a homosexual is a form of male *doesn’t mean they’re not a homosexual.*” This appears to make sense and I believe this is what he was trying to say. He could have used “heterosexual” instead which would have meant the same thing, but would have caused a lot less controversy!
Bean
Billy — I suspect “No. 18” does know who they’re talking to, and they’re not trying to sway anyone to their train of thought. If they were trying to open up intelligent debate instead of just being inflammatory, they wouldn’t have hidden behind anonymity.
John — What I got out of the comparison isn’t that McFadden thinks pink isn’t a form of red or that homosexuals aren’t males at all, but rather that he thinks they are *lesser.* His statement — and your “defense” of it — make it seem like he thinks homosexuals aren’t REAL men.
seitan-on-a-stick
He’s like Russell Crowe but GAY!
matt_panda
Yikes! Whenever a homophobe open its mouth, dumb things always come out of it. No wonder study after study has shown that the higher the educational level, the more supportive they are of gay rights. This guy sounds like a high school drop-out!
A color is just a color. It has no gender. There is nothing wrong with men (gay or straight) wearing pink. Obviously pink sells (just take a quick tour of the mens section in any department store). Anyone who thinks their gender forbids them from wearing a certain color is clearly a sheep who has been socially brainwashed and can’t think outside the box. One word – baaaaa.
A REAL MAN who is secure enough in his sexuality can wear any color. Only a pussified coward like McFadden would fear that a color might turn him gay. Actually, looking at the above photos, looks like McFadden likes pink very much! Must be a closet homo.
Damn. If I saw this uneducated fool on the street, I’d smack its ugly face to a pulp.
eh, NEXT!
scott
Saying McFadden has some form of intelligence is the same as saying McFadden’s last album has some form of good music. It sucked and so does he.
John
Bean – I didn’t get the impression that he thinks homosexuals aren’t real men. I certainly don’t think this, and I don’t believe that Brian would either. He’s announced that he has many friends and colleagues that are gay. I’m sure he wasn’t meaning any offense to them or the broader gay community.
What he’s trying to say is that pink is a specific form of red, just as homosexuals are a specific form of males (just as heterosexuals are a specific form of males.) He’s trying to point out that the argument “pink is a form of red†is a red herring (NPI) because yes, pink is a (real) form of red, but this isn’t relevant to his views on who should wear pink. In the same way he’s saying that whilst a homosexual man is a (real) man, that’s just as irrelevant to the current argument as pink being a (real) form of red.
brian
My friend Dinger knew Brian was gay. Dinger never told me Brian is gay. Now he goes on the NY Turnpike on the way to Lake George and calls me and said, Hey Brian’s Gay. Some Friend!
luke
lol brian has it spot on…pink is for fags/gays. gays can suck it.
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