--Saturday-- Amy Winehouse
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Disclaimer: I'm not as cold-hearted as the following will make me sound. I think this is very sad and have sympathy for anyone in such a miserable situation. That being said,
I take issue with the way this article laments the tale.
"Great Singer-Songwriter Suffered Beyond Her Years"
WTF does this even mean? Who measures how much suffering any one person is supposed to have experienced in x number of years? What about the millions of starving kids, abused kids, girls in cultures where they practice female genital mutilation and stone them for being raped? You don't think these people suffer as much, in the first ten years of their lives, as Amy Winehouse did in 27?
"But the reality is that she experienced and suffered years worth of pain and agony in her short lifetime, many times what others her age experience."
What others? Isn't 27 the age at which an inordinate amount of celebrities end up killing themselves or O/Ding? Isn't 27 the age at which my own life fell apart into a bloody nightmare of self-injury and suicide attempts? Gee, if I had been successful, would I have been eulogized the way Amy Winehouse is here? No, I probably would have been called a selfish bitch, because I'm not famous.
"She was a young woman with an old, battle-worn soul."
So now that's what we call it when we indulge in substance abuse, hurt ourselves, try to kill ourselves, and get hung up on useless relationships? Battle-worn? Good to know. Hey, anyone who remembers me from that era of my life, I wasn't in a self-destructive spiral made worse by insisting upon hanging out with people who saw and treated me as subhuman, I was frickin' BATTLE-WORN.
This article is shit, and kind of insulting to the millions of other people who suffer worse than Winehouse ever did, and also to those of us who suffered the same shit and managed to live through it.
Disclaimer: I'm not as cold-hearted as the following will make me sound. I think this is very sad and have sympathy for anyone in such a miserable situation. That being said,
I take issue with the way this article laments the tale.
"Great Singer-Songwriter Suffered Beyond Her Years"
WTF does this even mean? Who measures how much suffering any one person is supposed to have experienced in x number of years? What about the millions of starving kids, abused kids, girls in cultures where they practice female genital mutilation and stone them for being raped? You don't think these people suffer as much, in the first ten years of their lives, as Amy Winehouse did in 27?
"But the reality is that she experienced and suffered years worth of pain and agony in her short lifetime, many times what others her age experience."
What others? Isn't 27 the age at which an inordinate amount of celebrities end up killing themselves or O/Ding? Isn't 27 the age at which my own life fell apart into a bloody nightmare of self-injury and suicide attempts? Gee, if I had been successful, would I have been eulogized the way Amy Winehouse is here? No, I probably would have been called a selfish bitch, because I'm not famous.
"She was a young woman with an old, battle-worn soul."
So now that's what we call it when we indulge in substance abuse, hurt ourselves, try to kill ourselves, and get hung up on useless relationships? Battle-worn? Good to know. Hey, anyone who remembers me from that era of my life, I wasn't in a self-destructive spiral made worse by insisting upon hanging out with people who saw and treated me as subhuman, I was frickin' BATTLE-WORN.
This article is shit, and kind of insulting to the millions of other people who suffer worse than Winehouse ever did, and also to those of us who suffered the same shit and managed to live through it.