I Am Not A Sexist: Kent Alan Ryan about his comment on Molly Ivers and his distate for Alex Earnshow and The Smiths
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After Kent Alan Ryan’s threats to take legal action against the artist Alex Earnshaw turned out to be entirely unfunded, new developments in the growingly controversial quarrel reveal that Ryan's claim to "fear for his life" perhaps weren't as strongly divorced from reality as initially assumed. Asserting that he has always devotedly followed a "fundamentally pacifist lifestyle", his ex-mates' reaction to his "joke" - Earnshaw resorted to violent slurs and aborted the interview in progress shortly after he was informed - is something he considers to be "obscenely over the top", and while he "isn't afraid of that gangly w*nker" he entrusted us with the knowledge that Alex had a roguish youth and has been involved in physical confrontations before. Painting the 33-year old's past as being representative of the Punk culture, mentality and "idiocy", his preference for hob-nail boots indicating more than "just a bad fashion statement", the ("only slightly") younger Brit doesn't seem to be adverse to some rough-housing.
Drawing his fingers through his hair in a gesture of ennui and mild annoyance, Ryan settles his hands on his hip; if he is distraught by the sudden clash with Earnshaw, he doesn't show it. We do notice, however, that the moderator and ex-pop star seems unusually tired. He admits that he "has lost sleep thinking about this d*ck," but winks then and adds, "Fortunately, I had someone to console me and I think I came over it. Multiple times last night, in fact. Life goes on, you know?"
Refusing to elaborate further on his private situation, Kent Alan steers the conversation back to the allegations of sexism he's currently facing, these adding voice to already existing claims about casual misogyny that emerged during Dreamz's last season when Ryan used the de-contextualised p-slur on life TV. Referring to Panic! At The Disco's 2005-hit I Write Sins Not Tragedies he insists that his comment was a "quote that didn't have to do anything with Molly herself" and if "Alex removed his head from his a**e he'd have recognized it.". Earnshaw's vibrant demonstration of machismo isn't "any less sexist or paternal or whatever you want to bl**dy call it," and "he probably thinks he's a white knight, him." in uttering enraged death threats. "And it's not like wh*re's necessarily a bad term, at least for me it isn't, more of an honorary. If I really was that much of a sexist I'd probably say something along the lines of 'If she wasn't a wh*re before, she surely's one now 'cause marrying a girl is the best way to get that bird to sh*g around.' but since I'm not a sexist I wouldn't ever say this, of course. […] Listen, it's just very easy to push his buttons."
Apparently these buttons are Alex Earnshaw's fiancée, Molly Ivers.
While it's certainly true hat insulting a straight man proves to be difficult unless questioning his heterosexuality, masculinity or referring to his partner, understanding that "It's a social reality." obviously doesn't make it any less wrong.
Kent Alan shrugs and admits, "Molly – not Lexie - is free to call me, we can talk about this, we can meet up. She's welcome. It's nothing personal. In case she's even willing to call a sexist, megalomaniac, perverted, emotionally inept f******g c**t.”
On the question if he expects repercussions, the ex-pop star replies: "Modern media would feel very empty without me, wouldn't it? […] Oh, and please don't use another The Smith's headline. I mean for Christ's sake, stop bl**dy bawling, man, the world has bigger problems."
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