Thank Christ for Kate Moss.
Having just seen Virgins Sex Pistols inspired credit cards and then dragging my eyes through and article about pop 'rivals' Katy Perry and Taylor Swift writing vaguely pissy songs at each other, Kate Moss has saved my laptop from being coated with vomit.
Thank you Kate for being a bit naughty, a bit rock 'n' roll. Thank you for being gorgeous and a bit pissed on an aeroplane like all fabulously wealthy supermodels should. When celebrities get angry, they don't swear or scream or throw things, they tell each other how they are feeling and then they cry. Which is what they also do when they are happy/sad /accepting an award/in the vicinity of Oprah Winfrey, horrible boring celebrities. Kate Moss isn't a celebrity, she's a genuine famous person with dimensions and flaws and perfections.
I'm not going to let the fact that the aeroplane incident really isn't a story spoil my enjoyment. According to fellow passengers Ms Moss was no bother at all, 'she was not aggressive to anyone and was funny really'. The flight crew WERE actually behaving like a bunch of basic bitches and called the police who did nothing, because there was nothing to do. But of course we still got the headlines about a paralytic prima-donna being dragged off a plane, which may not be true, but still made my day.
The Daily Mail particularly seems to dislike Kate Moss, last week they ran a story about how she had the audacity to ask Andrew Marr if she could have his seat in a busy café as he'd clearly finished his coffee. What. A. Bitch. Of course I don't always agree with everything Kate says and does, but that's because one of us isn't a global fashion icon so there are bound to be some different interpretations of reality. Anyone who thinks that nothing tastes as good as skinny feels, clearly hasn't got a whole box of Oreo ice creams in her freezer, for example.
There is undoubtedly more than a little bit of misogyny about how this non-incident has been reported. Suzanne Moore in the Guardian points out that Moss' disruptive behaviour wasn't actually disruptive, unlike many celebrity antics, but it has been exaggerated in certain parts of the media because: "There is nothing that disgusts these people more than a woman enjoying herself".
Yes, she was drinking - the hussy- another example of press double-standards is the way they report alcoholism. Last month Jed Evans killed his sister, mother and her partner, just a few days later the DM was suggesting that the mother's alcoholism was to blame. The penalty for being a flawed mother is death apparently. Men who are alcoholics are tortured self-harmers deserving pity; women are selfish destroyers of other people's lives deserving what they get. Notice how stories about drunken tourists are always illustrated with a picture of an inebriated woman, because that's more disgraceful? President Obama has a beer for breakfast at the G7 and he's respecting a cultural tradition, I pop open a can of Carling at toddler group and I have a 'problem'.
So screw them Kate, stay supercool, and I'll ride with you anytime (maybe not on easyJet though).