The career of Daily Mail columnist Jan Moir is desperately clinging to life after suffering an adverse reaction following exposure to common sense, unbiased thinking, and the Internet.
“There are those who would call her a short-sighted bigot, perhaps even a wilfully deceitful crack-whore, but they don’t realise how upsetting the loss of her career will be to millions of witless homophobes and racists.”
When I first read that I was like "I can't..believe...someone published this..." then I looked up and saw who did and it all made sense.
The sidebar links alone were full of the most blatantly sexist crap I'd seen in a long time in a newspaper and that's saying something. It made our tabloids over here look sane.
"The sugar coating on this fatality is so saccharine-thick that it obscures whatever bitter truth lies beneath. Healthy and fit 33-year-old men do not just climb into their pyjamas and go to sleep on the sofa, never to wake up again."
Oh really, Dr Moir?
"Another real sadness about Gately's death is that it strikes another blow to the happy-ever-after myth of civil partnerships. 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."
Funny you should say that - I was half expecting you to say how tame this is compared to what goes on in the US. Is homophobia not that mainstream over there, or is just confined to talk shows and their TV equivalents?
The stuff I saw about women's "thighs" being exposed and Katie something or other's breasts "falling out of her dress" is the kind of stuff they wouldn't even publish in a tabloid here. They might put the picture in, but they'd never use those words, they'd just put something like "Fashion don't!"
If there's one thing the Mail hates more than immigrants, it's "loose" females. It's one long hatchet job for prudish middle-aged women to tut tut at other people's daughters.
Why has it taken so long for Labour's equal rights laws to blow up in their face?
It is clear to anyone with three brain cells that excessive amounts of maternity leave and gigantic sex discrimination payouts - of the kind shepherded through by Sir Harriet Harman - have not strengthened the position of women in the workplace.
If anything, they have hampered the prospects of many, particularly in a credit-crunched marketplace.
If you are a young, ambitious woman of child-bearing years, any employer is going to think once, twice, three times about you, lady.
Particularly small businesses, who are hammered out of all existence by discriminatory legislation and given no help to thrive.
This government, desperate to appease working mothers at any cost, has alienated employers, not encouraged them.
It goes on and on, but what is clear is that that great citadel of gender gelding, the Government Equalities Office, is doing more harm than good.
So netball and football are to be replaced as school sports by pastimes such as skateboarding and cheerleading. Pathetic. When are children going to learn that school sports are something to be endured, not enjoyed?
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The sidebar links alone were full of the most blatantly sexist crap I'd seen in a long time in a newspaper and that's saying something. It made our tabloids over here look sane.
The UK also has a reactionary media with massive delusions of relevance. If Labour had taken Obama’s attitude in ‘97, imagine what a great country we could be living in today.
In the summer of 1985, amidst a panic over Tamil refugees fleeing Sri Lanka to Britain, the British government imposed a requirement that visitors from Sri Lanka had to obtain a visa before travelling to Britain. The change, the first time such a restriction had been imposed on Commonwealth citizens, was preceded and legitimated by scare stories in the press about an impending 'floodtide' of Tamils about to engulf Britain. One year later, the British press was at the forefront of a campaign to extend the visa restriction to other Commonwealth nationals and to defend Britain, once again, from an invasion by immigrant hordes.
now while I'm all for seeing this odious woman's career cut as short as possible, I think for the paper to distance itself from her article would give the false impression that this was some kind of uncharacterisitc lapse of judgement on the editors' part, as opposed to something that's entirely consistent with the rag's well known bigotry. .
worldwide debate over a Daily Mail article on the death of Boyzone singer Stephen Gately spread over the internet at the weekend.
Columnist Jan Moir's comments on the singer's shocking death sparked an extraordinary online response using sites such as Twitter and Facebook.
Thousands have been moved to comment on Moir's column after she wrote in last Friday's paper about the circumstances surrounding the star's death in Majorca, when he and his civil partner invited a Bulgarian man to their flat.
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