Why there is nothing ‘natural’ about the life of Jan Moir
I was quite surprised this week. Ordinarily, when someone famous dies, it only takes about five minutes for the tabloid attack squad to move in, decide it was their fault and rip apart their life for no reason whatsoever. But Stephen Gately's death seemed to catch the hatemongers on the hop.
Until today. Here's Jan Moir:
Why there was nothing 'natural' about Stephen Gately's death
...except that he died of natural causes, you mean? Jan, though, has recognised her tardiness in sticking the boot into the fresh corpse of Gateley; she's now doing it in advance to other celebrities who might die soon:
Robbie, Amy, Kate, Whitney, Britney; we all know who they are. And we are not being ghoulish to anticipate, or to be mentally braced for, their bad end: a long night, a mysterious stranger, an odd set of circumstances that herald a sudden death.
No, it's not ghoulish at all to expect someone else's death, Jan. You tell yourself that. You cackling witch.
A founder member of Ireland's first boy band, he was the group's co-lead singer, even though he could barely carry a tune in a Louis Vuitton trunk.
He was the Posh Spice of Boyzone, a popular but largely decorous addition.
Keep going, Jan, I don't think you've been unpleasant enough yet. How about turning into Quincy and deciding you know better than the coroner?
Even before the post-mortem and toxicology reports were released by the Spanish authorities, the Gatelys' lawyer reiterated that they believed his sudden death was due to natural causes.
But, hang on a minute. Something is terribly wrong with the way this incident has been shaped and spun into nothing more than an unfortunate mishap on a holiday weekend, like a broken teacup in the rented cottage.
What killed him then, Jan? Being gay?
Whatever the cause of death is, it is not, by any yardstick, a natural one. Let us be absolutely clear about this. All that has been established so far is that Stephen Gately was not murdered.
Er, no, dying from fluid on the lungs is natural and unfortunately does happen to people with congenital heart conditions. It's rare, but it does happen all the time - just not to celebrities. That's probably why Moir doesn't know.
After a night of clubbing, Cowles and Gately took a young Bulgarian man back to their apartment. It is not disrespectful to assume that a game of canasta with 25-year-old Georgi Dochev was not what was on the cards.
Ah, I see. Yes, they were gay, therefore they obviously had sex with him. If that's what you think, Jan, don't be shy. If all gay people are by their very nature promiscuous then just pop up and say it, Jan. No-one will think the less of you. Because no-one could think any less of you.
Gately's family have always maintained that drugs were not involved in the singer's death, but it has just been revealed that he at least smoked cannabis on the night he died.
Nevertheless, his mother is still insisting that her son died from a previously undetected heart condition that has plagued the family.
BECAUSE HE DID, YOU FLAMING FUCKWIT. Tell you what, you do a few years of medical training, order a second postmortem, you carve up the corpse, then you come out with your half-baked "one spliff killed him" bullshit. Otherwise, maybe the people who do it for a living know that they might be talking about...?
For Jan, though, it's not about the one spliff which killed Gately. It's the fact he was gay.
Gay activists are always calling for tolerance and understanding about same-sex relationships, arguing that they are just the same as heterosexual marriages. Not everyone, they say, is like George Michael.
Of course, in many cases this may be true. Yet the recent death of Kevin McGee, the former husband of Little Britain star Matt Lucas, and now the dubious events of Gately's last night raise troubling questions about what happened.
What the fuck do you mean by that? Kevin McGee killed himself after battling with drug addiction - it wasn't anything to do with his civil partnership as that had long since broken up. Is Jan Moir really trying to link drug use with being gay? Or saying that civil partnerships will lead to death? Or what is she trying to do?
Whatever it is, it's more seedy and disgusting than what she claims is to blame for Stephen Gately's death. Someone as decent and ordinary as Gately dies, yet Jan Moir lives. It's just not fair.
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October 16th, 2009 - 13:46
We do not have the Daily Mail anywhere near our house – precisely for articles like this – Hang your head in shame! RIP Stephen
October 16th, 2009 - 13:46
Surely, at least an apology is due, at the barest of minimums?
Something similar happened earlier this year in Malaysia. In the summer of 2009, Yasmin Ahmad, a celebrated Malaysian film director perhaps unknown outside of Asia, died of a stroke. Believed by many to be in her prime, there was a national outpouring of grief in Malaysia.
Despite that, a Malaysian daily decided to publish a story about her alleged transexuality on its front page, with language that seemed intent to smear. The public were incensed and after much pressure, the editor of the newspaper mustered what could be called an apology.
I expected poor journalism by tabloids in Malaysia, where the standards of journalism are different and the mainstream media is state controlled. I'd be shocked if no similar apology is made by the Daily Mail to the family of Stephen Gately and those dear to him for the endless insinuations and slander they have been publishing this week.
October 16th, 2009 - 13:47
Why don't you email Jan on her personal email address and tell her
j.moir200@btinternet.com
or at the daily mail
jan.moir@dailymail.co.uk
Daniel Pemberton
October 16th, 2009 - 13:49
Well said, thank you.
October 16th, 2009 - 13:52
There is definitely nothing natural about Jan Moir. I don't think she even has a heart. How wrong is she really?! She is nothing more than a homophobic delinquent. People like that shouldn't be allowed an opinion and shouldn't even be allowed to publish such bullshit. I hope she gets what she deserves. Sour cunt! Sorry to use such a 'derogatory' term. But it's the only word that seems fit to describe her.
October 16th, 2009 - 13:54
Many older people who apparently die of 'natural causes' are married. Thankfully I'm not married. I don't think I ever will now. Phew.
October 16th, 2009 - 13:56
No there is nothing natural about what she has written. Spare a thought for the family and loved ones who have to read or hear about this in their grief for a person who was obviously so well loved and a gentle man. She is indeed a very nasty article.
October 16th, 2009 - 13:58
Thanks for expressing the feelings of a huge number of people so eloquently. The woman is a guttersnipe.
October 16th, 2009 - 13:58
Daily Mail is always contriversal. Newspapers claim Free Speech. I cant get my nickers in a twist asI do not belong to the gay world
October 16th, 2009 - 14:06
The Fail have done a slight edit-job to try and salvage the situation, why not just remove the highly offending piece?
Page URL and top of page grab at 12:14PM:
http://i36.tinypic.com/23rty5x.jpg
Changed page URL and grab at 14:32PM:
http://i34.tinypic.com/a284lu.jpg
October 16th, 2009 - 14:07
Thanks for the post Anton. Pretty much sums up the intelligent world's view of such bigotry and obvious attention-seeking.
And if anyone's considering a quiet evening in with famemonkey..bring protection.
October 16th, 2009 - 14:07
Delightful autopsy! I don't believe I have ever read the Daily Mail (apart from today, when I was prompted to read Moir's vitriol). Never again. Hope she dies soon…
October 16th, 2009 - 14:09
Well said.
Jan Moir obviously thought more people would share her low opinion on civil partnerships and homosexuality, otherwise she wouldn't have even dared to write such a vile article. The Daily Mail makes me very uneasy, printing speculation and fabrication as if pure fact.
October 16th, 2009 - 14:11
It is a disgusting & cowardly article, but quite typical for the Mail. Moir has simply used the speculation around the cause of Gateley's death to attack homosexuality, homosexuals & civil partnerships.
What else do you expect from The Daily Mail? For them, homosexuality is a "practice" & a "lifestyle" and homosexuals are merely its practioners. People like Gateley are gay first, human second. It's a deplorable way to view people, but unfortunately it is how the readers of The Mail think.
Jan Moir is simply peddling the popular prejudice that sells this disgusting tabloid trash on a daily basis.
October 16th, 2009 - 14:11
@Sue, @Sim-O, @tattooed_mummy, @Mary, @john b, @bootlegmarkchapman
"…occasionally I would stay over at the houses of couple-friends of mine after a night out, and never did any sex take place (well, not that included me, anyway!)"
@Sue, @Sim-O, @tattooed_mummy, @Mary, @john b, @bootlegmarkchapman
and similar comments… most of you mentioned going back to a friends house, and on the BBC it said that had met that night, to me knowing someone 6 hours or so does not qualify as a good friend, and I suspect that the majority of people do not go back to their house with their "new friend" as the BBC put it for platonic purposes. Though I don't have any evidence for that, and doubt I will get funding for that study
I suppose I was getting side tracked by the minor issues as I do agree that it is an irrelevant point to Stephen's death. In fact would it be breaking any laws if we sent Jan massive volumes of gay porn showing people not dying afterwards?
October 16th, 2009 - 14:12
Could you all possibly stop with the misogynist 'witch' terminology. I'm pretty sure Jan Moir would have been one of the rabid villagers who set the stake alight to incinerate innocent people, and isn't that where the word 'faggot' came from, cos gay men were burn along with 'witches'. Be careful what you 'witch' for.
October 16th, 2009 - 14:14
HOLY MOTHER OF FUCKWIT-NESS! Who IS this woman, and why on Earth is she allowed to print shit like that? I'm sorry, but I hope Karma takes care of this deplorable woman.
Never heard so much insulting shite in all my life. May a thousand fleas infest her A***h**e……..
October 16th, 2009 - 14:15
Good to see this weasily piece of writing kicking up such a fuss, the Daily Mail gets away with too much I feel.
Poor Stephen Gately did not deserve to die so young
October 16th, 2009 - 14:18
Great dissection of a truly detestable artice. Being gay myself I find her article unbelievably offensive. We all live our individual lives (no matter how colourful!) and for her to draw such insinuation from this tragic event beggars belief.
Keep up the good work.
Thud
October 16th, 2009 - 14:23
If it was like she said and the other two guys were in the bedroom and Gately was on the couch then yeah, it sounds like sex. But also – who cares. She makes it sound like only gay people do this kind of thing and by doing so it means their partnerships don't mean as much as heterosexual partnerships. Well I know more than one married heterosexual couple who have open marriages but are still committed to each other.
I wonder if he was on the couch because he didn't feel well… Regardless of what he died from it's irresponsible to condemn him for anything until the autopsy is published. It's tabloid quality reporting.
October 16th, 2009 - 14:30
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October 16th, 2009 - 14:32
Excellent article, you voiced many people's opinions nicely there including mine.
The homophobic vile evil nasty cow should suffer. How can people like her get away with writing this stuff and what's more, how can people believe it and lap it up? Total fuckwits.
October 16th, 2009 - 14:32
What an amazingly awful article, I didn't see it but am truly speechless, how do they get away with this… I"m complaining.
October 16th, 2009 - 14:37
One thing that does need to be pointed out- the Bulgarian chap has admitted that the group were "intimate".
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1220657/Boyzone-new-tattoo-tributes-Stephen-Gately-police-reveal-final-hours.html
I'm sure I'm not the only one who finds it distasteful that a married couple picked up a stranger, had some sexual contact and then one of the couple ends up in bed with said stranger while partner lies dead or dying alone.
Gay or straight, there's something unseemly about being in bed with someone else while your partner is in another room lying dead.
October 16th, 2009 - 15:05
Good post. Linked to this from my piece about the same.
What a loathsome bitch.
_
October 16th, 2009 - 15:12
Well done for articulating what so many seem to want to say in response to this absurd woman's poisonous piece of hackery.
To be honest, I'd never heard of this young fellow before his death, but the fact that people might feel the need to put a sanitary spin on someone's sad demise says a lot more about the state of society and our bigotted press, rather than the unfortunate man himself.
It's my first visit to this site but definitely not my last.
October 16th, 2009 - 15:18
I agree with everything here, except, factually… us gays ARE actually more likely than average to use drugs.
Also we've got higher suicide rates.
That said, all power to your keyboard mate.
October 16th, 2009 - 15:19
Whilst I would agree that this is a pretty tawdry piece of journalism, it is not difficult to understand that a given individual might hold such views. What is more troubling is that there views presumably passed the approval of any number of sub-editors and editors before making it into publication. Does that not raise a rather bigger concern than the views of one hack journo?
October 16th, 2009 - 15:31
The PCC website seems to be down at the moment, hopefully because of the thousands of people wanting to express their disgust at this grotesque piece.
October 16th, 2009 - 15:34
Surely the innuendo crap that Moir has written makes it possible for her and the Fail to be sued out of existence?
October 16th, 2009 - 15:58
there's so much i want to say but i fear i might be questioned for threatening this wanker called Jane Moir but all i'm confident enough to write is that my thoughts at this very difficult time go out to Steven Gately's family. i Pray you find peace again. as for Ms Moir, surely you know this is not only offensive but shameful on your part. i wonder if you would feel the same if it was you child in question. your brain needs checking idiot
October 16th, 2009 - 16:05
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=44483&c=1
sadly, she still doesn't get it
October 16th, 2009 - 16:07
Thank you so much for this! Unfortunately this is the kind of crap that I've come to expect from the Daily Mail. I'm just glad to see that most of the commenters disagree with every single word she's said.
Someone as decent and ordinary as Gately dies, yet Jan Moir lives. It's just not fair.
It's really not.
October 16th, 2009 - 16:31
Nicely put.
October 16th, 2009 - 16:38
This post is strikingly similar to a post I made on my own blog today. I hadn't seen yours when I wrote mine, honest!
There really is no other response to this piece of nonsense than incredulity.
October 16th, 2009 - 17:07
Yeah – down with a free press! Down with free speech! Jail anyone who disagrees with the twitterati!
You muppets. Where is the "hate" in that article? Because she's not instantly accepting a sacharine line? We do *not* know the cause of death – all we have are the initial PM results which show acute pulmonary oedema. Yes, that killed him. But we don't know what *caused* the oedema – it doesn't just happen y'know. Could be linked to a pre-existing health problem, could be inhaled vomit, could be down to positional asphyxia, even bloody swine flu – we don't know. But in the circumstances it seems entirely reasonable to suggest an external cause – drink, drugs – may have played a part.
BTW, it's hardly a secret that on average being gay is not good for your health. Mostly lifestyle factors – drink/drugs. I read last week that for an average british male, being gay is almost as bad for your life expectancy as being scottish…
There you go – two hate-crimes for the price of one. Do I get a window seat in the cattle truck?
October 16th, 2009 - 17:14
I'm bouncing of the walls of my flat nutting the doorways chewing the carpet clawing my face and howling howling howling in anger at the nasty vile obnoxious judgemental scurrilous damaging hurtful SHIT this woman and that paper have published.
Apologise now!
October 16th, 2009 - 17:28
excellent post…Jan Moir is clearly a very disturbed twisted person, your dissection of her article helps to highlight the nastiness of her comments.
October 16th, 2009 - 21:36
wake up smell the coffee shes only saying what most people think
October 16th, 2009 - 21:38
Hear, hear !
October 16th, 2009 - 21:38
nice article, well said, but massive Brooker rip off
October 16th, 2009 - 21:48
Everything written in Ms Moir's article is just another reason not to read that rag. Not only should she apologise but so should the editor for printing it in the first place.
The freedom of the press is essential in a democracy but they should report fact and leave speculation and conspiracy theories to the idiots out there who have more time than sense. I think Ms Moir is a dried up old bigot who has a dozen cats and a best friend that needs batteries. Now, I don't know this for a fact but like this article it's just speculation and supposition. I wouldn't wrap my chips in this so called paper.
October 17th, 2009 - 10:14
The logic fail in his death ruining the dream of happy-ever-after astounds me as much as the blatant offensiveness. All marriages end in death or divorce, essentially. How does death make it less happily ever after than divorce? Surely, as an end, death makes it more happily ever after, as they actually stuck to "til death do us part"…?
October 17th, 2009 - 12:00
"Yeah – down with a free press! Down with free speech! Jail anyone who disagrees with the twitterati!"
Holy shit, I didn't realise she'd actually been jailed.
This whole thing is getting way out of hand.
October 17th, 2009 - 16:23
I can confidently say that the number of times I have been to my friends houses and NOT had sex with them outweighs the number of times I have by approximately 500:1.
An assumption that 2+2=5 is therefore, of course, highly likely to be inaccurate.
October 18th, 2009 - 08:29
"Yeah – down with a free press! Down with free speech! Jail anyone who disagrees with the twitterati!
You muppets"
Hello, Kermit. I wasn't aware you were a forensic pathologist.
October 18th, 2009 - 13:08
Noted today that the DM did another 'headline fail':
"Sex-change graduate working as a prostitute strangled before killer set fire to her flat"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1221080/Woman-dead-burned-flat-sex-worker.html
:roll eyes:
October 18th, 2009 - 13:26
@MelanieM
Anton wrote this piece at 9.38 on 16/10/09. Charlie Brooker published his piece on the Guardian website at 16.54 on 16/10/09.
There well have been a rip-off going on – but not in the direction you're indicating.
Excellent piece, Anton.
October 18th, 2009 - 19:07
"quote" knowing someone 6 hours or so does not qualify as a good friend, and I suspect that the majority of people do not go back to their house with their "new friend" as the BBC put it for platonic purposes. "quote"
Call me what you will, but actually there has been many occasions when people I have met that night have ended up back at mine after a night out for purely "platonic purposes". In fact after a night out for my sister's birthday 7 people I had only met that night stayed over at mine playing SingStar – no sexy times at all!
And anyway – so bloody what! (Didn't know pulmonary oedema was a disease only effecting gay people – you learn something new everyday!)
October 18th, 2009 - 22:41
I did like the bit in her apology where she implied being gay could 'excacerbate underlying medical conditions'.