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September 19, 2005
Kate Moss and Cocaine.
Sam Leith has it I think:
The very notion of the "role model" seems to have been invented to license the worst sort of wilful moral imbecility. Take Kate Moss, the more sympathetic of our protagonists. Because she is a "role model", runs the argument, teenage girls will copy her in a "monkey see, monkey do" fashion. Perhaps so.
This might lead teenage girls into various things that are bad for them: smoking cigarettes, drinking champagne out of tiny bottles, hating their own bodies, and competing with each other to waste their money on cynical fashion-industry tat.
Oh. Sorry. That part of it is OK. In fact, it's her job. It's the reason we made her a role model in the first place. But when she's caught, by subterfuge, doing cocaine in secret, moral panic reigns.
If it gets out that she snorts cocaine, teenage girls will think it's cool to snort cocaine. (Let us say, for the sake of argument, that teenage girls could afford £50 grams of charlie, and that ruthless pushers were queuing up outside school gates across the country, hoping to corner that lucrative market.) This must never be allowed to happen.
The only way to protect the precious, precious youth of the nation from the pernicious influence of their role model is, then, to announce on the front page of the newspaper that the coolest woman on earth takes cocaine. Brilliant.
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Three in a bed cocaine-exhanced sex sessions with two models sounds like something (at least) I'd like to aspire to!
Posted by: Rob Read | Sep 19, 2005 10:42:31 AM
"Three in a bed cocaine-exhanced sex sessions with two models sounds like something (at least) I'd like to aspire to!"
Only if they were twin sisters, surely.
Posted by: Edward Teague | Sep 19, 2005 2:06:59 PM
Wibble!
Posted by: Rob Read | Sep 19, 2005 5:02:39 PM
Hi All,
love Kate and her looks. She's SEX pure 100%.
`Wish I could look like her
Don't give a shit about cocaine, if I would have her life.
Posted by: Tara | Dec 12, 2006 6:49:33 PM