Irish Eurovision band sack team member for saying a male rapist is not a woman

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Ian Banham - the creative director for the Irish Eurovision Song has been sacked by the other band members because he wrote a tweet calling out the press for referring to a male rapist as a ‘she’.

The band have issued this statement:

Wild Youth is a band that stands for unity and kindness. Our song represents our beliefs as a band. We have cut all ties with lan Banham and will not have him on or near our team or Eurovison journey. We are so sorry for anyone offended by his comments.

They are in effect sacking their band mate and they defending a rapist’s right to be called she’ and they say they stand for ‘kindness’.
There is a backlash, I wonder how much support they will get for this.

https://twitter.com/bandwildyouth/status/1650833255266934784?s=46&t=KoykWa-IFitZMrteWP2pKA

She might like unicorns (loved that bit!) but I’m seeing wipe clean skimps and am thinking she might be going to like canesten more…

I hope this link works, this is hilarious 😂

https://twitter.com/TheEyes2022/status/1652966342352355328?s=20

Bahahahahaha. Pure dead brilliant!

Stunning AND brave 🤣

Remove me please! 🤣🤣🤣

A cracker - thankee cake. 😍

Shame about the anti vaccine nonsense, though.

Was there any? The only Tweet I saw was having a go at GB News for trying to stoke up panic over a new Covid wave?

One of the first ones was a full on anti vaccine and the linked one got in a dig. Unless I clicked on the wrong one.

A sacking matter, though? Lots of people were/are vaccine skeptics and a hell of a lot of them took to Twitter (and Mumsnet) about it. He's not a health professional nor holding himself out as an expert as far as I know.

It's just that that sort of thing is a bit off putting to me. Fair enough if he is sceptical, but it spoils things for me, when people shove in something irrelevant (and to me, daft) into something unrelated, which I may find interesting / funny.

Anyway, apologies for derailing.

Sorry, I'm confused about where you are saying this was shoved in? I thought we were talking about a collection of random tweets on the creative director's personal twitter on a range of different subjects over the space of a couple of years. Which were then cherry picked by the band as evidence of how horrible a person he supposedly is – but only after a Eurovision fan account highlighted a couple of trans related ones.

I may not have seen the anti Vax ones so happy to be linked up!

There's a link to a comedy twitter account, regarding the oppressiveness of forced language, around trans people.

This post:
IcakethereforeIam · Yesterday 21:16

I hope this link works, this is hilarious

And it gave me an entirely different one when I clicked, just now!

Weird, @SinnerBoy I just checked my the twitter link and it went to the right skit. I was confused re the anti-vax. Wasn't sure if you meant Banham or the twitter geezer! Should I have put a disclaimer ? I only watched the drag queen one, anyway.....remove him!

Yes, it now goes to a scary drag queen.... Great, I'm off to bed soon (night shift) I'm bound to wake up screaming!

Sweet dreams.

Sorry.....these deep fake(not sure of the terminology?) are terrifying. Mind you I find DQs fairly terrifying anyway.

Yes, me too. I don't object to them dressing up, but looking at them gives me the heebies.

Hope this helps. Shift work and DQs, what a combination!

Thank you!

😀

Dustin needs to take Wild Youth under his wing. I’m sure they’ll be comforted there after not getting through.

ZaraJade can have them all to themself.

Peachy.

Hahahahahahahaha oh dear how sad never mind. Poundshop U2.

Cheery Bye, Wild Youth. There's always Outlandishly Woke Middle Age to look forward to.

I'm pretty patriotic so normally I'd be sad that Ireland didn't make it. But not tonight. Don't let the door hit your sorry arses on the way out.

That’ll be a week on Tuesday by the look o them.

If that is Youth I’m not a fat heifer in my 50s.

Mon Norway 🇳🇴

I think the performance was very weak on the night, the song was derivative, the lead singer's styling was straight up embarrassing as opposed to the 'edgy and ironic' look he was presumably going for, and I think their reputation was tarnished by their air of self-important petulance from the singer in interviews leading up to the show and the band members' daft acquiescence to his unpleasant ego.

Channelling Six (not that I’m complaining).

Are you popping me down a rabbit hole warning? 😊