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	<title>Comments on: Here&#8217;s Jan Moir&#8217;s Apology For Her Stephen Gately Column. Do You Accept?</title>
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		<title>By: drew</title>
		<link>http://www.queerty.com/heres-jan-moirs-apology-for-her-stephen-gately-column-do-you-accept-20091023/#comment-249585</link>
		<dc:creator>drew</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@RJ.....&#039;poorly worded&#039;!!!! She is, no doubt, a highly paid journalist for a national newspaper. So she has no excuse for poor wording. 
IF she considers herself a journalist then she should make a decent apology....however that is not important at this point because no-one would believe her now. I hope she gets sacked. She writes a column in which she likes to shock, maybe she went too far this time. If she can&#039;t take the heat then she should get a new job.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@RJ&#8230;..&#8217;poorly worded&#8217;!!!! She is, no doubt, a highly paid journalist for a national newspaper. So she has no excuse for poor wording.<br />
IF she considers herself a journalist then she should make a decent apology&#8230;.however that is not important at this point because no-one would believe her now. I hope she gets sacked. She writes a column in which she likes to shock, maybe she went too far this time. If she can&#8217;t take the heat then she should get a new job.</p>
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		<title>By: Steven</title>
		<link>http://www.queerty.com/heres-jan-moirs-apology-for-her-stephen-gately-column-do-you-accept-20091023/#comment-228797</link>
		<dc:creator>Steven</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@RJ  I cannot see how this apology can be seen to be satisfactory.  She insulted everyone who has died/suffered the same kind of medical condition that killed Stephen Gately, not just the man himself.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@RJ  I cannot see how this apology can be seen to be satisfactory.  She insulted everyone who has died/suffered the same kind of medical condition that killed Stephen Gately, not just the man himself.</p>
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		<title>By: pauline</title>
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		<dc:creator>pauline</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;To die on the sofa while your partner is sleeping with someone else in the next room&quot;... Once again I think Ms Moir has inaccurately protrayed what happened that night. There is no suggestion that Mr Gately&#039;s partner Andrew was anywhere other than in his own bed, Mr Gately&#039;s family announced very early on in the piece that the guest was sleeping in the spare bedroom, alone!  There is nothing to disprove this. Does Ms Moir never put up people who need a place to stay?
Perhaps it&#039;s kindness she doesn&#039;t understand?

another complaint under way from me.
here&#039;s the link so you don&#039;t have to read any more poison.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1222246/The-truth-views-tragic-death-Stephen-Gately.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;To die on the sofa while your partner is sleeping with someone else in the next room&#8221;&#8230; Once again I think Ms Moir has inaccurately protrayed what happened that night. There is no suggestion that Mr Gately&#8217;s partner Andrew was anywhere other than in his own bed, Mr Gately&#8217;s family announced very early on in the piece that the guest was sleeping in the spare bedroom, alone!  There is nothing to disprove this. Does Ms Moir never put up people who need a place to stay?<br />
Perhaps it&#8217;s kindness she doesn&#8217;t understand?</p>
<p>another complaint under way from me.<br />
here&#8217;s the link so you don&#8217;t have to read any more poison.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1222246/The-truth-views-tragic-death-Stephen-Gately.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/fem.....ately.html</a></p>
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		<title>By: Brian Miller</title>
		<link>http://www.queerty.com/heres-jan-moirs-apology-for-her-stephen-gately-column-do-you-accept-20091023/#comment-228736</link>
		<dc:creator>Brian Miller</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Who cares?

If *nobody* paid attention to her shit, she WOULDN&#039;T have an audience.

Instead, the hysterical drama queens have catapulted her into a position of prominence in the right wing that she&#039;ll enjoy for years... a steady gravy train.

Good going guys.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Who cares?</p>
<p>If *nobody* paid attention to her shit, she WOULDN&#8217;T have an audience.</p>
<p>Instead, the hysterical drama queens have catapulted her into a position of prominence in the right wing that she&#8217;ll enjoy for years&#8230; a steady gravy train.</p>
<p>Good going guys.</p>
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		<title>By: A Non</title>
		<link>http://www.queerty.com/heres-jan-moirs-apology-for-her-stephen-gately-column-do-you-accept-20091023/#comment-228705</link>
		<dc:creator>A Non</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Come on do you really expect any better from a Daily Mail columnist.  Jesus the whole paper is full of bigotry and lies and it is getting worse.  There are still some good journalists that work for the Mail but they seem much fewer and farther between recently.  The whole paper is angled one way to appeal to racist housewives who live in places like Surrey.  Fact.  That&#039;s not just my opinion.  I am a journalism student, I have been told this from insiders who have far more knowledge on the subject than I.
It&#039;s not even the journalists that write the thing.  They may be perfectly good journalists but they write about what they know will appeal to the Daily Mail readership.  A newspaper is a business like any other sadly.
Only answer = BOYCOTT the DAILY MAIL.  But the racist homophobes who are the papers bread and butter are not going to do that unfortunately.  Not much we can do apart from not buy it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Come on do you really expect any better from a Daily Mail columnist.  Jesus the whole paper is full of bigotry and lies and it is getting worse.  There are still some good journalists that work for the Mail but they seem much fewer and farther between recently.  The whole paper is angled one way to appeal to racist housewives who live in places like Surrey.  Fact.  That&#8217;s not just my opinion.  I am a journalism student, I have been told this from insiders who have far more knowledge on the subject than I.<br />
It&#8217;s not even the journalists that write the thing.  They may be perfectly good journalists but they write about what they know will appeal to the Daily Mail readership.  A newspaper is a business like any other sadly.<br />
Only answer = BOYCOTT the DAILY MAIL.  But the racist homophobes who are the papers bread and butter are not going to do that unfortunately.  Not much we can do apart from not buy it.</p>
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		<title>By: Phoenix (...And When I Say It Sucks @SS I Don't Mean That In The Good Way Either)</title>
		<link>http://www.queerty.com/heres-jan-moirs-apology-for-her-stephen-gately-column-do-you-accept-20091023/#comment-228594</link>
		<dc:creator>Phoenix (...And When I Say It Sucks @SS I Don't Mean That In The Good Way Either)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Also, Jan The Bigot, 

What makes you think a straight people are better at being monogamous than gay people? &lt;I&gt;Hello&lt;/I&gt;, Peaches, the (straight) divorce rate is 60%. For the straight couples that don&#039;t get divorced, 60% of &lt;I&gt;those&lt;/I&gt; are cheating. (Sounds to me &lt;I&gt;straight&lt;/I&gt; marriage is a bigger failure than gay domestic partnerships.) From what I can tell straight people I know personally, they screw around as much if not more than gay people. Also, since when is it that &lt;I&gt;only&lt;/I&gt; gay people have open relationships? &lt;I&gt;Only&lt;/I&gt; gay people have threesomes? I know plenty of couples in open relationships....and guess what? They&#039;re all middle-aged, &lt;I&gt;straight&lt;/I&gt; couples! I also know plenty of straight couples who&#039;ve had threesomes, too.

And why bother with monogamy anyway? Monogamy was invented during an era when women were property. Women were chattel and the property of their fathers who &lt;I&gt;sold&lt;/I&gt; them and their hymens to their husbands. Is that something we gay folks actually want to emulate? How about everyone&#039;s body is their &lt;I&gt;own&lt;/I&gt; property and is not &quot;owned&quot; by another person? How about that?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Also, Jan The Bigot, </p>
<p>What makes you think a straight people are better at being monogamous than gay people? <i>Hello</i>, Peaches, the (straight) divorce rate is 60%. For the straight couples that don&#8217;t get divorced, 60% of <i>those</i> are cheating. (Sounds to me <i>straight</i> marriage is a bigger failure than gay domestic partnerships.) From what I can tell straight people I know personally, they screw around as much if not more than gay people. Also, since when is it that <i>only</i> gay people have open relationships? <i>Only</i> gay people have threesomes? I know plenty of couples in open relationships&#8230;.and guess what? They&#8217;re all middle-aged, <i>straight</i> couples! I also know plenty of straight couples who&#8217;ve had threesomes, too.</p>
<p>And why bother with monogamy anyway? Monogamy was invented during an era when women were property. Women were chattel and the property of their fathers who <i>sold</i> them and their hymens to their husbands. Is that something we gay folks actually want to emulate? How about everyone&#8217;s body is their <i>own</i> property and is not &#8220;owned&#8221; by another person? How about that?</p>
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		<title>By: Phoenix (The Daily Fail Sucks @SS)</title>
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		<dc:creator>Phoenix (The Daily Fail Sucks @SS)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear Jan,

Fuck you....with a rusty hacksaw. 

Love &amp; Kisses,

Phoenix Is Phabulous

p.s. Good luck on your future job hunt....NOT!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Jan,</p>
<p>Fuck you&#8230;.with a rusty hacksaw. </p>
<p>Love &amp; Kisses,</p>
<p>Phoenix Is Phabulous</p>
<p>p.s. Good luck on your future job hunt&#8230;.NOT!!!</p>
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		<title>By: jason</title>
		<link>http://www.queerty.com/heres-jan-moirs-apology-for-her-stephen-gately-column-do-you-accept-20091023/#comment-228540</link>
		<dc:creator>jason</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, it does sound potentially seedy.  Nightclub, unexplained circumstances, third party.  It would be just as seedy if it were a straight couple.  We gays need to stop using our homosexuality to insulate ourselves from the sort of criticism that applies to everyone else.

After all, we&#039;re striving to be equal, not special.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, it does sound potentially seedy.  Nightclub, unexplained circumstances, third party.  It would be just as seedy if it were a straight couple.  We gays need to stop using our homosexuality to insulate ourselves from the sort of criticism that applies to everyone else.</p>
<p>After all, we&#8217;re striving to be equal, not special.</p>
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		<title>By: Attmay</title>
		<link>http://www.queerty.com/heres-jan-moirs-apology-for-her-stephen-gately-column-do-you-accept-20091023/#comment-228531</link>
		<dc:creator>Attmay</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I non-accept her non-apology, and I don&#039;t even like boy bands.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I non-accept her non-apology, and I don&#8217;t even like boy bands.</p>
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		<title>By: hardmannyc</title>
		<link>http://www.queerty.com/heres-jan-moirs-apology-for-her-stephen-gately-column-do-you-accept-20091023/#comment-228509</link>
		<dc:creator>hardmannyc</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>She&#039;s obviously only &quot;apologizing&quot; because the publisher of the Daily Mail is feeling the Press Commission (which got a by-far record number of compliants about the column) breathing down its neck. 

In Britain, the government has more controls over the press than here.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>She&#8217;s obviously only &#8220;apologizing&#8221; because the publisher of the Daily Mail is feeling the Press Commission (which got a by-far record number of compliants about the column) breathing down its neck. </p>
<p>In Britain, the government has more controls over the press than here.</p>
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		<title>By: Brian NJ</title>
		<link>http://www.queerty.com/heres-jan-moirs-apology-for-her-stephen-gately-column-do-you-accept-20091023/#comment-228470</link>
		<dc:creator>Brian NJ</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Fundie fuck Moir wrote that Gately&#039;s death, &quot;strikes another blow to the happy-ever-after myth of civil partnerships.&quot;  She believes that gay people are not as happy in their unions, and used a tragedy and an anecdote of why gay relationships are inferior. Bigot.

Then she uses the hurt and anger of the gay community to inflict further hurt, by calling gay people &quot;hysterical&quot; and stating that her column was only wrong because a family member may have read it.  The purpose of her second article is not apology, but to accuse the gay community of opportunism.  But she is the black cat who pounced on death as a way to advance her evil conservative christian agenda.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fundie fuck Moir wrote that Gately&#8217;s death, &#8220;strikes another blow to the happy-ever-after myth of civil partnerships.&#8221;  She believes that gay people are not as happy in their unions, and used a tragedy and an anecdote of why gay relationships are inferior. Bigot.</p>
<p>Then she uses the hurt and anger of the gay community to inflict further hurt, by calling gay people &#8220;hysterical&#8221; and stating that her column was only wrong because a family member may have read it.  The purpose of her second article is not apology, but to accuse the gay community of opportunism.  But she is the black cat who pounced on death as a way to advance her evil conservative christian agenda.</p>
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		<title>By: Me</title>
		<link>http://www.queerty.com/heres-jan-moirs-apology-for-her-stephen-gately-column-do-you-accept-20091023/#comment-228447</link>
		<dc:creator>Me</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What a cunt. I&#039;m not going to mince words or wax eloquently. What a total cunt. Even if drugs were involved in all of the cases she mentioned, it likely has more to do with the world these celebrities inhabit rather than with whom they sleep. The same tragedies of excess befall countless celebrities - gay or straight. Her focus on only the gay ones in a ham-fisted attempt to make moral judgements and denounce gay marriage makes her a total cunt.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What a cunt. I&#8217;m not going to mince words or wax eloquently. What a total cunt. Even if drugs were involved in all of the cases she mentioned, it likely has more to do with the world these celebrities inhabit rather than with whom they sleep. The same tragedies of excess befall countless celebrities &#8211; gay or straight. Her focus on only the gay ones in a ham-fisted attempt to make moral judgements and denounce gay marriage makes her a total cunt.</p>
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		<title>By: uffda</title>
		<link>http://www.queerty.com/heres-jan-moirs-apology-for-her-stephen-gately-column-do-you-accept-20091023/#comment-228422</link>
		<dc:creator>uffda</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 05:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>She really doesn&#039;t get it does she? No. I think she does, she&#039;s just trying to change what she wrote, but we have the original column as proof. Read it again; see if you believe the sincerity of this &quot;apology.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>She really doesn&#8217;t get it does she? No. I think she does, she&#8217;s just trying to change what she wrote, but we have the original column as proof. Read it again; see if you believe the sincerity of this &#8220;apology.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Emily</title>
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		<dc:creator>Emily</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;I&#039;m sorry. I&#039;m not going to take back what I wrote, in fact, I stand by it all the more now. I guess I&#039;m really just sorry that I may have just turfed my own career. But I expect you to accept my apology nonetheless.

Signed,
Jan Moir&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry. I&#8217;m not going to take back what I wrote, in fact, I stand by it all the more now. I guess I&#8217;m really just sorry that I may have just turfed my own career. But I expect you to accept my apology nonetheless.</p>
<p>Signed,<br />
Jan Moir&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: John</title>
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		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If I didn&#039;t think she was a bigot before, I KNOW she is know. What  a jerk!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If I didn&#8217;t think she was a bigot before, I KNOW she is know. What  a jerk!</p>
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		<title>By: RJ</title>
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		<dc:creator>RJ</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I do agree.  This apology, for me, if heartfelt and sincere, is satisfactory.

While here wording was poor, her timing inappropriate, and the validity of her opinion on the matter infinitesimal,  she did issue a heart-felt apology.

Her statement re: young men do not just drop dead was invalid given her lacking medical expertise and training.  Evidence suggests.... they do.

To state anything otherwise about the dead does a disservice to the deceased life and the validity of the mourning of those left behind.

I would much rather see this not address to us, but to his partner and his family.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I do agree.  This apology, for me, if heartfelt and sincere, is satisfactory.</p>
<p>While here wording was poor, her timing inappropriate, and the validity of her opinion on the matter infinitesimal,  she did issue a heart-felt apology.</p>
<p>Her statement re: young men do not just drop dead was invalid given her lacking medical expertise and training.  Evidence suggests&#8230;. they do.</p>
<p>To state anything otherwise about the dead does a disservice to the deceased life and the validity of the mourning of those left behind.</p>
<p>I would much rather see this not address to us, but to his partner and his family.</p>
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		<title>By: Jack</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&#039;...I would like to say sorry if I have caused distress...&#039;

There&#039;s no &#039;if&#039; about it. 22,000 people complained, Jan. You DID cause offence. Now apologise properly.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8216;&#8230;I would like to say sorry if I have caused distress&#8230;&#8217;</p>
<p>There&#8217;s no &#8216;if&#8217; about it. 22,000 people complained, Jan. You DID cause offence. Now apologise properly.</p>
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		<title>By: Sapphocrat</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sapphocrat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I read the &quot;apology,&quot; and re-read the original piece, and my answer is: No. Non-apology not accepted.

Her speculation about a threesome wasn&#039;t the problem; the problem was her wholesale indictment of SSMs: &quot;Another real sadness about Gately&#039;s death is that it strikes another blow to the happy-ever-after myth of civil partnerships.&quot;

She completely ignores this in her &quot;apology,&quot; instead blaming &quot;a hysterical overreaction&quot; (any of you men catch that slap at _your_ masculinity?), &quot;...much of it ... an orchestrated campaign by pressure groups and those with agendas of their own.&quot;

Oh, really, Jan? Name names. &#039;Cause I sure didn&#039;t get my marching orders from The Big Giant Gay Head.

But then, Miss Moir appears to be downright psychic, as she claims &quot;many who complained&quot; hadn&#039;t even read her original column. (And you know this... how, Jan? I read every word.)

Finally, she plays victim -- of a &quot;torrent of abuse.&quot; Oh, somebody call the wahhhhmbulance!

And then, of course, there&#039;s the &quot;sorry IF I have caused distress...&quot; (classic non-apology; translated: &quot;Gee, too bad _you&#039;re_ so hypersensitive&quot;), and in the same sentence attributes the negative reaction to &quot;the insensitive timing of the column, published so close to the funeral.&quot;

It wasn&#039;t the timing, Jan. And I think you know that.

Overall: Big, epic FAIL.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I read the &#8220;apology,&#8221; and re-read the original piece, and my answer is: No. Non-apology not accepted.</p>
<p>Her speculation about a threesome wasn&#8217;t the problem; the problem was her wholesale indictment of SSMs: &#8220;Another real sadness about Gately&#8217;s death is that it strikes another blow to the happy-ever-after myth of civil partnerships.&#8221;</p>
<p>She completely ignores this in her &#8220;apology,&#8221; instead blaming &#8220;a hysterical overreaction&#8221; (any of you men catch that slap at _your_ masculinity?), &#8220;&#8230;much of it &#8230; an orchestrated campaign by pressure groups and those with agendas of their own.&#8221;</p>
<p>Oh, really, Jan? Name names. &#8216;Cause I sure didn&#8217;t get my marching orders from The Big Giant Gay Head.</p>
<p>But then, Miss Moir appears to be downright psychic, as she claims &#8220;many who complained&#8221; hadn&#8217;t even read her original column. (And you know this&#8230; how, Jan? I read every word.)</p>
<p>Finally, she plays victim &#8212; of a &#8220;torrent of abuse.&#8221; Oh, somebody call the wahhhhmbulance!</p>
<p>And then, of course, there&#8217;s the &#8220;sorry IF I have caused distress&#8230;&#8221; (classic non-apology; translated: &#8220;Gee, too bad _you&#8217;re_ so hypersensitive&#8221;), and in the same sentence attributes the negative reaction to &#8220;the insensitive timing of the column, published so close to the funeral.&#8221;</p>
<p>It wasn&#8217;t the timing, Jan. And I think you know that.</p>
<p>Overall: Big, epic FAIL.</p>
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		<title>By: Brian NJ</title>
		<link>http://www.queerty.com/heres-jan-moirs-apology-for-her-stephen-gately-column-do-you-accept-20091023/#comment-228285</link>
		<dc:creator>Brian NJ</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Brat.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Brat.</p>
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		<title>By: TikiHead</title>
		<link>http://www.queerty.com/heres-jan-moirs-apology-for-her-stephen-gately-column-do-you-accept-20091023/#comment-228274</link>
		<dc:creator>TikiHead</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>She&#039;s feces.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>She&#8217;s feces.</p>
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		<title>By: Steff</title>
		<link>http://www.queerty.com/heres-jan-moirs-apology-for-her-stephen-gately-column-do-you-accept-20091023/#comment-228259</link>
		<dc:creator>Steff</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So, one minute... 

&lt;em&gt;&quot;...he could barely carry a tune in a Louis Vuitton trunk... He was the Posh Spice of Boyzone, a popular but largely decorous addition.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;

But now he&#039;s a...

&lt;em&gt;&quot;talented young man&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, one minute&#8230; </p>
<p><em>&#8220;&#8230;he could barely carry a tune in a Louis Vuitton trunk&#8230; He was the Posh Spice of Boyzone, a popular but largely decorous addition.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>But now he&#8217;s a&#8230;</p>
<p><em>&#8220;talented young man&#8221;</em>.</p>
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		<title>By: Orpheus_lost</title>
		<link>http://www.queerty.com/heres-jan-moirs-apology-for-her-stephen-gately-column-do-you-accept-20091023/#comment-228256</link>
		<dc:creator>Orpheus_lost</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So this ugly bitch would would have said THIS if she had been writing about a straight boybander?

&quot;Another real sadness about Gately&#039;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&#039;s last night raise troubling questions about what happened.&quot;

I find it difficult to believe that she would have used two examples of straight couples&#039; marriages ending in sad circumstances as an excuse to call hetero marriage a &quot;myth&quot; or to suggest that all marriages should be reconsidered.

Moir is a lying word-whore whose paper should be boycotted and protested until she is fired.

I guess that means I really don&#039;t accept her non-apology.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So this ugly bitch would would have said THIS if she had been writing about a straight boybander?</p>
<p>&#8220;Another real sadness about Gately&#8217;s death is that it strikes another blow to the happy-ever-after myth of civil partnerships.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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&#8217;s last night raise troubling questions about what happened.&#8221;</p>
<p>I find it difficult to believe that she would have used two examples of straight couples&#8217; marriages ending in sad circumstances as an excuse to call hetero marriage a &#8220;myth&#8221; or to suggest that all marriages should be reconsidered.</p>
<p>Moir is a lying word-whore whose paper should be boycotted and protested until she is fired.</p>
<p>I guess that means I really don&#8217;t accept her non-apology.</p>
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		<title>By: EE Keller</title>
		<link>http://www.queerty.com/heres-jan-moirs-apology-for-her-stephen-gately-column-do-you-accept-20091023/#comment-228253</link>
		<dc:creator>EE Keller</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Only have to get to the 3rd paragraph to see this is not an apology.  Sorry &quot;IF&quot; I offended is a non-apology apology.  Sorry I offended is an apology.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Only have to get to the 3rd paragraph to see this is not an apology.  Sorry &#8220;IF&#8221; I offended is a non-apology apology.  Sorry I offended is an apology.</p>
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		<title>By: DelphKC</title>
		<link>http://www.queerty.com/heres-jan-moirs-apology-for-her-stephen-gately-column-do-you-accept-20091023/#comment-228252</link>
		<dc:creator>DelphKC</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah, maybe... Her article did have a touch of &quot;those seedy gays&quot; in it though, you have to admit... Just a touch...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, maybe&#8230; Her article did have a touch of &#8220;those seedy gays&#8221; in it though, you have to admit&#8230; Just a touch&#8230;</p>
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