Selective indignation
"and who would you LEAST expect in a mink?", Del Boy asked at the SSFF...:Macca in mink
(Tabloid News - 12/03/07 - Daisy Kay)
You know it's a slow news day when the most exciting lead is a snap of anti-fur campaigner Heather Mills wearing a mink coat in... 1989.
The Mirror is delighted with their find, even going to the trouble of printing 40 little pictures of a mink's face, informing us that 'it took ALL these to make it'!
'The video will deeply embarrass the anti-fur activist, who last year called Naomi Campbell 'shallow and hypocritical' for wearing fur,' the paper scoffs.
(http://www.megastar.co.uk/meganews/news/2007/03/12/sMEG01MTE3MzY4OTUxOTk.html)
A taste of her own medicine for the golddigger everyone loves to hate. :-)
And it shows how often 'public outrage' about fur is a question of selective indignation. Anyone remember the fuss about the less htan popular Countess of Wessex wearing a fox hairband, somewhere abroad? Of a type where someone really had to have it your hands to be sure it was real fur? Like someone from the royal household... who couldn't keep him or herself from making a phone call to a newspaper?
Now, compare that to the tons of fur that Her Majesty has worn all her life, in full view on television - you'd expect that those at least would have been good for a minor civil war, wouldn't they?
posted by Eric ForFriends @ 6:37 PM
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