Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 138 Editor's Choice: 7
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White people singing de blues
[Read the article: Flirting with disaster]
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There is just something incredibly troubling about your post. That whole bit about authenticity, etc. Who's real and who is not. And the whole, white people trying to sing the blues bullshit.
Would you say a black person who sings opera is somehow unconvincing? Is a poseur? If someone told me that when I was studying classical singing, I would have smacked them in the face.
Just like felt like doing to you after I read your post.
BTW, I love Amy Winehouse. I hope she gets better, and continues to make her "inauthentic" music.
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Creating the new
[Read the article: Flirting with disaster]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why is it that American Culture is so focused on creating something new? I don't know where I read this, or heard this, but Anthony Bourdain was saying something to the affect that there isn't really any new flavors out there. Or maybe it wasn't Bourdain.
But whatever, the point is that I don't think there's any new music out there. There's a wide world of bands, and instruments, and vocal techniques which makes it impossible for anyone's music not to be evocative. I think American Culture has torn up and discarded enough musical styles. Can't we go back and revisit some of the older ones without the artis being called poseur wannabe?
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What the hell Brightstar?
[Read the article: Saudi king spares rape victim]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't want to feed into your crazy, b.s., but what does your hot british neighbor have to do with the price of chai in India? By all means, go after her and screw her and move with her to Europe. The women of Broadsheet would throw a party! In fact, you can take a lot of your brethren with you. British women are so much more accomadating than American women; they don't care about money, they stay home and cook and clean for the man etc...oh wait.
I don't understand you sometimes.
But to speak to your other point, I agree that in the United States there are times when women aren't punished as harshly as men. For example, one of my good friends was murdered by his psycho girlfriend and the bitch only got 7 years in jail. If he had shot her, in the law and order Western state he's from, he'd be looking at 25 years to life if he were lucky. They didn't even have a trial for the cunt. (I'm sorry, it pisses me off so bad!) And don't get me started on my white female drug dealer friend who was TRAFFICKING and got off with community service and a pat on the head. (Poor widdle blonde white girl fell in with de wrong crowd!)
However, don't you think things might be a little different in Saudi Arabia for women? That perhaps when it comes to "moral" crimes, they actually get it worse than the men?
Of course not, because you dislike all women, regardless of national identity. Well, accept for your british supermodel neighbor.
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Brightstar, I would never say, women deserve to have it easier than MEN!
[Read the article: Saudi king spares rape victim]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]nor did I imply it. The criminal justice system in America treats men, for the most part, harsher than it does women. (Well, unless a woman forgets and leaves her kid in the car.) But when it comes to capital cases, or drug charges, women get it easier. It ain't right.
It's also not right that black men are more likely to serve time than their white counterparts who committ the sam crimes.
Unfairness is unfairness and I'm certainly not on of those women who thinks women should be treated like little flowers.
But you have to admit, that the Saudi Arabian laws (and the punishment for folks breaking the law) are ridiculously harsh. And that it's unfair that women get it worse over there. Though, I think serving time in jail, though awful, doesn't necessarily compare with getting stoned to death, beheaded, and/or 200 lashes.
Besides, Canuckistan Bob (I beleive) said this a common occurence in Saudi Arabia. The person get's pardoned, and it has probably happened in the case of men as well. It's a big deal here because the woman was raped and then sentenced to 200 lashes, even if she technically broke the law. There are two sets of laws, it appears in Saudi Arabia, for women and men. Even though juries and prosectors might seek differing sentences based on gender, it's not like there's a different law on the books that says, A woman murders someone and her punishment is 2 years in prison. A man punishes someone...well I hope you get the point.
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I'm curious
[Read the article: Scotland: It's still rape if she's drunk]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why would the gender neutral terminology piss off the Scots? I mean, do they think they are so manly that they can't be raped or something? Or do they really enjoy forcefully buggering each other and would be mad that the party is over?
Pray tell, folks who know more of that culture (I'm of Scottish descent like quite a few folks from my part of the south, but I really don't know much about it.)