It's Called Being Broken

[docbrite]

Y'all know how I am -- I don't listen to any music released after 1993. But if I see one more Internet fool going on about how Amy Winehouse "chose" her "lifestyle" and "chose" to die, I'm gonna punch a motherfucker. What the fuck is wrong with people who need to proclaim this kind of shit? Do they actually feel superior because they are not sick,

Comments

[icecreamempress]

I think there are three things at work

[icecreamempress]

Also, I think Winehouse was talented and I am terribly sorry she's dead. I would have loved to have had her around 40 years from now doing the kind of stuff Marianne Faithfull and Suzi Quatro and various other wise older women of pop are doing these days.

[womzilla]

"Do they actually feel superior because they are not sick, broken, hurting addicts? If so, that's a damn sorry thing to feel superior about."

Yes, they do, because that's all they've got, the belief that they aren't broken. They're wrong.

[everydayalways]

I have the same feeling when people say Ryan Dunn deserved to die.

[wednes]

I was just feverishly typing that very thing...on Facebook, for much of my weekend. I can certainly understand that it's often more comfortable to feel angry than to feel sad--so feeling angry at someone who died is kinda normal. But that's a far cry from calling a dead girl a "junkie" when she was obviously sick and self-medicating.

The idea that people "choose" to be mentally ill is always good for lulz, or would be if mental illness didn't have such a high mortality rate.

[cuntishness]

I hear you. I think a lot of it is people feeling moral superiority about the whole fame obsession.
"Well, I don't feel anything for her, look how awesome I am."
Uh... Ok?

I do know that a lot of people that I've been reading are angry because of all of her opportunities. I know plenty of people with a substance issue, mental issue, physical issue, etc, without the money to get treatment. The frustration over that fact then feeds into looking at someone with so much money and possibility, not using and as such, dying, like they themselves are afraid to die. But still those people have not referred to this as a lifestyle or a choice to die.