There's nothing smart about Jan Moir...

There's nothing Herstorian hates more than gay-bashing....except maybe bad statistics. Last Saturday's Daily Mail ran an article by Jan Moir arguing that there was "nothing natural" about gay Boyzone member Stephen Gately's death in Mallorca last week. At the end of her article Moir states:

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.

So Moir's argument is, basically: Gately was gay and died, Kevin McGee was gay and died. Hmmm... I guess, being gay is no good. That's just bad maths. Every statistics professor on the planet starts off the course with the same example of bad stats: Everyone who has eaten beans has died. Therefore, beans are fatal. Moir needs a refresher course in basic stats. Actually, just plain old logical thinking would do the trick.

She goes on to bash Gately's elements of "gay" lifestyle, citing such activities as smoking pot and clubbing - as if heterosexual people never smoke pot or go clubbing. Why, when a gay person does it, does it suddenly have something to do with his or her sexuality?