I'm not sure how I feel about the sentence you quote. Instinctively I agree with that sentence because it's the the cause of her death that needs to disappear, it's the focus the media puts on it.
There was nary a word about Steve Job's drug use or the way he abandoned his family. That struck me. And the Times may have mentioned Don Cornelius' domestic abuse but that's just it. They just *mentioned* it. You had to go looking for the details. In Whitney's case the details were the story.
I go back and forth on that sentence, not sure how I really feel about it. I wasn't around for this but when Elvis died, was drug use the first thing they talked about or was it his accomplishments? Or, honest question, is that the disrespect reserved for women?
I honestly don't know. I thought the author brought up some good points women need to think about and wanted to share it. I'm kind of weird. I don't elevate feminism over other isms. I don't think the disrespect to Whitney should be done to anyone. My concern as a woman, is that the sisters need to come together and support each other regardless of color, religion and all the other neat little categories they throw us in. It's a class war and we're the "nigger of the world", as John and Yoko put it so well, with Black women at the bottom of the pile.
I posted that article mostly for thought because I'd like to see a world where sisters all come together in solidarity the class war being waged against all of us.
Everything's circular. How much did sexism and racism exacerbate her fragility and illness? Don't get me wrong, Whitney was a big girl who made her own choices and paid for them. But how many of those choices would have been different in a world without sexism? And racism?
No answers here dear Stockholmer. I'm just thinking out loud.
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