Fur coats are important to Lindsay Lohan – sometimes they’re all that stop her prematurely withered cha-chas from the elements.

However, some people – some French people to be precise – don’t approve of Lindsay Lohan’s continued endorsement of animal fur. As such they’ve felt the need to attack Lindsay Lohan, and attack her with a starchy baking ingredient. too. To put it bluntly, someone threw flour at Lindsay Lohan this weekend, and it made Lindsay Lohan sad.

But it also made Lindsay Lohan’s boyfriend Samantha Ronson furious. Furious enough to dash to her computer and thrash out an angry dollop of screed about it on her blog. So it must be serious – Sam Ronson only uses her blog for important matters, like politics and private matters and reality TV shows and that time she totally just spent like six hours playing Guitar Hero until her hands were sore. You know, the big stuff.

As part-reptile – on her mother’s side, genealogy fans! – Lindsay Lohan feels the cold a lot more than regular human beings do. Well, to be fair it’s partly because of her reptilian ancestry and partly because Lindsay Lohan has never worn a pair of knickers in her entire life, but whatever. Lindsay Lohan gets cold a lot. That’s the point we’re trying to make.

And, as such, Lindsay Lohan relies on fur coats for warmth like nobody else. If she can get her hands on a fur coat, she’ll wear it. If she can’t get her hands on a fur coat, she’ll allegedly steal one from an idiot. And if Lindsay Lohan can’t steal a fur coat from an idiot, then this is what happens. And who wants to see that, now, really.

Anyway, French animal rights protesters don’t seem to understand this little fact about Lindsay Lohan. That’s why, when Lindsay and Samantha Ronson went to Paris recently, Lindsay Lohan ended up taking a flourbomb to the head while being called a ‘fur hag’ by local rights activists.

Personally, we think the French protesters were being a little bit ignorant – Lindsay Lohan doesn’t have the luxury of the overwhelmingly hairy armpits, faces and pubic areas that the French women enjoy, and she has to use animal fur to make up the difference. In that sense they’re mocking the disabled. But whatever.

Lindsay Lohan has yet to formally respond to the flour attack, but that hasn’t stopped Sam Ronson from hopping onto her MySpace blog to speak on her behalf. Well, we say ’speak’ but we actually mean ‘wail like a mental seagull falling down a liftshaft’. Sam wrote:

“It seems lately I am learning that there are too many people who put another species before their fellow man and that’s sad. I don’t wear fur, but I don’t think I have the right to attack those who do. No one has that right… The girl who threw it acted like an animal herself. I take that back, it’s an insult to animals to group her in with them, my dog is FAR more civilised than that person.”

Thank heavens that Sam Ronson took back that bit about the flour attacker being an animal. If Lindsay Lohan actually thought for a second that the girl really was an animal, then we have no doubt she’d have skinned her long ago. And we hear that walking around New York with a French cadaver draped around your neck is something of a faux pas these days. We think we saw that on Gok Wan.