Despite my very aggressive views of people that wear fur and companies that profit from animal suffering, this isn’t something I would do personally, but i have NO sympathy for her.

I can’t say i support people directly attacking fur hags (with anything but VERY harsh language) but i’m not shedding any tears for this heartless hag.

It’s these sort of antics that make me embarrassed to be vegetarian. PETA just come across as thugs.

i’m curious what all of you think of pie’s in the face since that’s very common of many groups and brings much media attention. are those bad too? I think i’d rather have the flour on my head than a pie on my face (unless it were organic vegan of course

it’s a shame. i remember a few years back when this chick was just a girl (makes me feel oollld and i thought she could have potential…. not a terrible actress, in a lesbian relationship now (speaking out against prop 8) but it’s as if she’s just wasting her talents now… a real shame. i gave her more hope than say paris loser hilton or jessica simpson or others in her “league” i hope she stops wearing fur, gets a clue and rises above it all.

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Action is important. Direct confrontation with high profile animal torturers is a valid, useful and effective tactic.

A little flour in the face is nothing compared to the torture and murder of animals.

If you support animal torture. You are a fair target.

I agree with parrish that these types of attacks go against the compassion that the anti-fur/animal rights movement is based on. I also think that poring flour over a famous person’s head will probably back fire if that famous person is able to spin it in a “poor me I was just minding my own business and some crazy person poured flour on my head” kinda way, which I’m sure is coming up next. I think PETA should stick with appealing to fashion designers and using fur free stars in their naked campaigns to eliminate fur.

Assault is Assault.

It’s hypocritical to say I can assault is I disagree with you on fur, but it’s criminal if you’re assaulted in a disagreement over homosexuality, religion etc.

This is a free country and it’s only free because you can’t use violence or the threat of violence to get your own way.

This isn’t a prank, or a stunt for attention, this is assault. There’s no difference here between Peta’s methods and Clan members who spit on kids. Calling it a stunt trivializes the issue and makes them think violence is ok as long as it’s only for a cause or it’s from Peta. Assault is Assault.

It’s appalling that these “stars” still wear fur, after they’ve repeatedly been made aware of the ethical problems associated with it.

China is the world ‘s largest exporter of fur clothing to the US and dog and cat fur is deliberately mislabeled so that it can be sold to unsuspecting Americans– the same China who cut safety corners to sell us contaminated pet food and toothpaste, lead-based-painted toys, melamine in flour, etc. and it is also selling us fur from animals that have been skinned alive (less costly you know).

This is not an issue that concerns only animal rights advocates. Everyone from Martha Stewart to Paul McCartney has denounced fur. Even if we put aside the ethical problems (which you shouldn’t), fur is so out-dated. Women who wear fur look like my grandma going to her weekly bingo game. YUCK!!!

How about the violence of NOT doing anything. The violence of sitting on the sidelines and allowing the continued promotion of fur. Lindsay was not injured here, yet the numbers of animals who will be tortured and killed because of her very public examples are steep. Sometimes not doing anything at all is just as ‘violent’ (if not worse) than appeasing the fence sitters by being nice. Getting some flour on your head is not ‘violent’ or being ‘attacked’. Yes it’s embarrassing for her, but that was the point. Would the exploiter-appeasers who are commenting about ‘how terrible it is what was done to her’ be happy if we just gave everyone a big hug and pray to Buddha that they watch a fur expose? Get real. Exploiters always exploit unless they are stopped. You can’t reason with the unreasonable. She should be glad it was only flour.

fbr, Firstly, “civilized” ways, as every history book has shown, and as everything going on in the world right now is showing, are by no means peaceful. What do you mean by civilized? Are you saying that the ways of civilized people are better than those of traditional indigenous peoples?
Secondly, ‘asking nicely’ never got any social justice movement anywhere. It simply falls in line with what the exploiters are willing to tolerate, because it is the exploiters who are in charge, isn’t it?
It is completely ridiculous that we are even considering flour on the head an act of violence. It’s insulting to other activists, and it’s insulting to the animals – whose situations (in comparison to Lindsay Lohan’s) are far worse than some flour getting dumped on their heads. What are you so afraid people will think? That we’re silly? That we’re scary? We should be asking ourselves why we are so put off by these stunts and we’ll probably realize that way down in the heart of it all – it’s because we want to please our abusers.

I wouldn’t do it, but I can understand it.

First and foremost, it was flour. It wasn’t going to hurt anyone. It just creates a little mess.

But, in this climate of “terror” where governments and industries have LIED about the “threat” posed by “animal rights extremists” it is probably reasonable for someone to get fearful and worry that flour is something more dangerous, like anthrax. And that’s why I wouldn’t do it.

But the level of anger that the activist felt against Lohan is, in my opinion, completely justified. Fur is wrong and celebrities who wear fur are sick, nasty, assholes.

ALL of this worries me though. Some celebrities might stage events like this in order to get publicity. I think the media (including bloggers) ought to ignore celebrities and events like this. We ought not give them more attention than they deserve. We shouldn’t let wearing fur (or reactions to wearing fur) be newsworthy because then it’s an incentive to wear fur.

this whole thing is very strange! please go to check the hsus-site where the two – gyllenhaal and lohan are seen in actions against fur – and though they seem to wear it! i think honestly that some celebrities of the show-business are suffering from schizofrenia and are not able to control themselves! so we have not to give them too much importance! that means we got an animal-protecting hard core from hollywood and bollywood – like pam, joaquin phoenix, sir paul, john abraham etc. so we actually know them – and the rest are psychotic followers who don’t know what they want! so let’s just consider the positive ones and the others should be ignored…….

I thought the incident was hilarious. It’s just flour- lighten up.

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