Some days I love the intertubes
Some days the intertubes is a scary pit of hell, that makes me cower under my bed with a colander on my head, but some days I just want to give it a great big hug. Today is one of those latter days.
I'm sure by now most of you have read the hateful, vile column that Jan Moir, that polyp on the rectum of humanity, has spewed forth into the already shit-soaked pages of the Dail FAIL.
If you haven't http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1220756/A-strange-lonely-troubling-death--.html here it is.
Although, it should be noted that the Daily Mail have changed the headline, it used to read "Why there was nothing 'natural' about Stephen Gately's death" - as Charlie Brooker has documented in this Twitpic - http://www.twitpic.com/lqchu
The Fail have also removed all advertising from the page. So there you go, Jan Moir, too hate filled and bigoted for the Daily Mail.
It is a horrible article, and I won't waste my brain cells thinking anymore on such dispicable arse-gravy.
Because there are much better things to focus on, namely, the reaction of the Internet. Jan Moir has become a trending topic on Twitter, and many people more learned and intelligent than me have had their say.
ETA:
A couple of tweets to start:
Charltonbrooker: RT @ disappointment: Jan Moir manages to walk the difficult tightrope between being a bitch and a cunt http://bit.ly/1GGI4S
Stephenfry: I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and inhumane.
And now some wonderful satirical pieces as well as some opinion blogs
http://notsowunderbar.blogspot.com/2009/10/why-there-is-nothing-natural-about-jan.html
http://www.dailyquail.org/2009/10/jan-moir-why-theres-nothing-natural.html (read the comments on this one too, some are quite wonderful)
http://newsarse.com/2009/10/16/jan-moirs-career-to-die-of-perfectly-natural-causes/
http://enemiesofreason.blogspot.com/2009/10/why-there-is-nothing-natural-about-life.html
But the best part of it all?
The PCC (Press Complaints Commission) website has crashed under the shear volume of traffic from people complaining.
To quote Oz: The people have a twitter shaped voice.
The PCC site seems to be hobbling along now so complain here: http://www.pcc.org.uk/complaints/form.html
She has breached clauses 1,3,5 & 12 of the Code.
Well anyway I think I shall go and write some slash. Because I can.
ETA:
I have written my complaint, which I show you here:
Jan Moir's article is a vile concoction based on rumour and insinuation. She takes it upon herself to question the findings of the official inquest, suggesting that Stephen Gately's death was a result of his lifestyle, and not natural causes. Whatever Stephen Gately did or did not do the night before his death has no bearing on it, if the experts say that it did not.
Jan's article is littered with unpleasant homosexual stereotypes of the very worst kind, suggesting that promiscuity is inherent to homosexuality and that civil partnerships are damaging to all parties involved. She also makes snide comments about the tragic death of Kevin McGee, as further "proof" to back up her claims of the evils of civil partnerships.
She makes the ridiculous and wildly inaccurate claim that men in their 30s don't "just die", which is obviously and patently untrue. She goes on to imply that Stephen Gately's homosexuality was a contributing factor to his death and that somehow it was his fault and that he deserved it.
Jan Moir is perpetuating hideous and unpleasant untruths to suggest that being gay is some kind of affliction that will adversely affect the mental and physical health of those who come into contact with it.
She is intruding on the grief of a young man's family in the most vile and terrible way, before he has even been buried.
ETA2:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/16/stephen-gately-jan-moir - Charlie Brooker's Guardian article about it.
I'm sure by now most of you have read the hateful, vile column that Jan Moir, that polyp on the rectum of humanity, has spewed forth into the already shit-soaked pages of the Dail FAIL.
If you haven't http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1220756/A-strange-lonely-troubling-death--.html here it is.
Although, it should be noted that the Daily Mail have changed the headline, it used to read "Why there was nothing 'natural' about Stephen Gately's death" - as Charlie Brooker has documented in this Twitpic - http://www.twitpic.com/lqchu
The Fail have also removed all advertising from the page. So there you go, Jan Moir, too hate filled and bigoted for the Daily Mail.
It is a horrible article, and I won't waste my brain cells thinking anymore on such dispicable arse-gravy.
Because there are much better things to focus on, namely, the reaction of the Internet. Jan Moir has become a trending topic on Twitter, and many people more learned and intelligent than me have had their say.
ETA:
A couple of tweets to start:
Charltonbrooker: RT @ disappointment: Jan Moir manages to walk the difficult tightrope between being a bitch and a cunt http://bit.ly/1GGI4S
Stephenfry: I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and inhumane.
And now some wonderful satirical pieces as well as some opinion blogs
http://notsowunderbar.blogspot.com/2009/10/why-there-is-nothing-natural-about-jan.html
http://www.dailyquail.org/2009/10/jan-moir-why-theres-nothing-natural.html (read the comments on this one too, some are quite wonderful)
http://newsarse.com/2009/10/16/jan-moirs-career-to-die-of-perfectly-natural-causes/
http://enemiesofreason.blogspot.com/2009/10/why-there-is-nothing-natural-about-life.html
But the best part of it all?
The PCC (Press Complaints Commission) website has crashed under the shear volume of traffic from people complaining.
To quote Oz: The people have a twitter shaped voice.
The PCC site seems to be hobbling along now so complain here: http://www.pcc.org.uk/complaints/form.html
She has breached clauses 1,3,5 & 12 of the Code.
Well anyway I think I shall go and write some slash. Because I can.
ETA:
I have written my complaint, which I show you here:
Jan Moir's article is a vile concoction based on rumour and insinuation. She takes it upon herself to question the findings of the official inquest, suggesting that Stephen Gately's death was a result of his lifestyle, and not natural causes. Whatever Stephen Gately did or did not do the night before his death has no bearing on it, if the experts say that it did not.
Jan's article is littered with unpleasant homosexual stereotypes of the very worst kind, suggesting that promiscuity is inherent to homosexuality and that civil partnerships are damaging to all parties involved. She also makes snide comments about the tragic death of Kevin McGee, as further "proof" to back up her claims of the evils of civil partnerships.
She makes the ridiculous and wildly inaccurate claim that men in their 30s don't "just die", which is obviously and patently untrue. She goes on to imply that Stephen Gately's homosexuality was a contributing factor to his death and that somehow it was his fault and that he deserved it.
Jan Moir is perpetuating hideous and unpleasant untruths to suggest that being gay is some kind of affliction that will adversely affect the mental and physical health of those who come into contact with it.
She is intruding on the grief of a young man's family in the most vile and terrible way, before he has even been buried.
ETA2:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/16/stephen-gately-jan-moir - Charlie Brooker's Guardian article about it.