The Curmudgeonification of a Fallen Woman

Am I getting old? Is that it? Or is that I read “too” much? Perhaps I am just a cranky person and these things get to me.

Last night there were HUNDREDS of post on Facebook about Danii Minogue making a comment on X Factor (aka – one of those dreadful talent shows designed to parade peoples pain and humiliation for public amusement) about a contestants possibly being gay. Twitter went absolutely MENTAL about it.

Personally I had to turn away from it all and go listen to Radio 4 to calm myself down* and get to sleep. Not because of what she said, because all of these people online had NOTHING ELSE TO GET OUTRAGED ABOUT!!!!

For the moment, lets ignore what she said and the (very talented) lad in question sang “And I am telling you” from Dreamgirls (my homosexual detection device is pinging a touch at that). People, seriously, this is what you get upset about? Where is your Moral Compass?

Just a few things that you might want to consider directing your energies to. These are things I have seem bugger all postings about on FB from any of my friends.

• Barrack Obamah got the Nobel Peace Prize. Does that not strike you as a little early? No matter how good a story he is telling a the moment are you seriously telling me that he CURRENTLY matches up to previous Nobel Laureates like Nelson Mandella, Mother Teresa and Médecins Sans Frontières? Give the man a chance, sure. Support his efforts, absolutely! But todate Obamah has not spent 27 years in prison and been a major driving force to end apartied. Nor has he spend over 45 years ministering to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying. The Nobel Committee seems breathlessly over enthusiastic on this one.
• Internet Eyes is going to let ANYONE in the UK use the CCTV network, encouraging them to “report crimes” they might see. Thats not at ALL worrying to you?
• Libyan “Leader” Muammar Gaddafi, a man who after over 40 years in politics STILL can’t decide how to spell his name in English, made a 100 minute speech at the UN – which just as a sidebar over ran his allotted time by 85 minutes AND caused his interpreter to walk off the job out of exhaustions. During this speech, amongst other things:
  • he accused the UN deliberately avoiding investigating JFKs murder
  • he also accused the UN being an al-Qaida-like terrorist body
  • and he stated that swine flu a biological weapon created in a military laboratory
  • the only person he gave any positivity towards was Barrack Obama, who he referred to as “my son”. This was before the Nobel Committee made its announcement, so its nice to see that they are all singing from the same page.

I will give Gaddafi this – he had a nice outfit, if a little Saturday Night Fever. Although clearly he is taking attention grabbing tips from Geri Halliwell. I am not sure which direction to be worried about that in first.

And thats not everything that happened in the last week or so. Don’t start me on the Labor or Tory Conventions, Berlusconi, the Tories making a General a Peer – lets hope thats not as much of a Coup as they are making out, or crematoriums webcasting funerals  (seriously).

If you want to get your panties in a twist over something gay and news worthy how about:

• Obama vow on gay military policy
• Its 11 years since Matthew Sheppard was beaten to death for being gay and left hanging on a chain link fence. And US politicians are STILL trying to make out that sexual orientation had nothing to do with his murder to avoid enacting anti-hate crime legislation

Is Danii Minogue suggesting someone might be gay and on a ‘talent’ show really worth all of the outrage?

REALLY?

Ok. I am now officially old and dont get it.

I am going to put my roller blades on now and go skate around Regents Park to Paloma Faith, Snow Patrol and the Smashing Pumpkins.

* Thank dog for Sandi Toksvig