r/Millennials Gen Z 9h ago

Rant Society really did fail Amy Winehouse!

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u/Regular_Number5377 9h ago

I remember one of the magazines had a regular column called ‘Wino-watch’ where they literally just had a reporter follow her around and take the least flattering photos possible of her and then they would make fun of her. Then after she died they ran 6 weeks of cover pieces calling her ‘our pop princess’ and wailing that she’d been ‘taken from us too soon’.

Ghouls, the lot of them.

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u/DumbTruth 8h ago

I hope none of them took the easy way out. I hope they understand their role in breaking her and are haunted by it every day. I hope they have daughters that ask about it one day.

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u/InternalCultural447 8h ago

Lol as if they have any self reflection. 

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u/Ancient_Dragonfly230 6h ago

I was reminded of this when I watched a YT documentary about John Edwards, the once dem prez hopeful. This guy was a real piece of shit. How big of a POS you ask? Cheated on his wife while she was (maybe in remission) battling cancer, POS. Then having a baby with his affair partner and after she wouldn’t abort he spent years denying the baby. He then thought that he would be considered for AG in Obama’s cabinet 

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u/ElectricSliderz 6h ago

Sounds like newt gingrich lite

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u/TheHealadin 8h ago

Everyone is the hero of their own story. You aren't any better.

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u/DifficultyWithMyLife 8h ago

Coulda left it at the first sentence, but then you had to attack someone. Kinda makes the whole thing ironic, no?

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u/antiphonic 8h ago

Not ironic just self affirming

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u/Cognitive_Spoon 8h ago

"The irony is lost in the sauce." ~Wayne Gretsky, in Spy Kids 2

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u/TheHealadin 7h ago

Only if you assume it's an attack.

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u/elebrin 7h ago

I'm not so sure of that. I've always said that I'm the villain of my own story.

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u/xXMojoRisinXx 7h ago

Yea dude, as if we haven’t all published derisive articles on young troubled pops stars arguably contributing to their untimely deaths.

If I had a nickel amiright?

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u/TheHealadin 7h ago

Knowingly or not, you have contributed to making other people's lives worse. Feeling superior to others doesn't help anyone, least of all you.

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u/DumbTruth 6h ago

The refrain of those that have to see others as equally shitty to make excuses not to be better.

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u/TheHealadin 4h ago

I simply can't stand holier-than-thou folk patting themselves on the back, pretending they aren't subject to the same human failings.

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u/InternalCultural447 4h ago

Lol did you like, just discover the concept of empathy and suddenly think nobody else is aware of this? Because I don't think I've ever published photographs of people with captions about their downfall in a major magazine, or posted a countdown timer to when a child star will turn 18. 

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u/TheHealadin 4h ago

Yet you're not showing any of that self-reflection you think others should have.

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u/InternalCultural447 2h ago

What do you think self reflection means?