Music Aug 2, 2023 at 3:58 pm

When Sinéad O'Connor Died, Many of Us Were Quick to Celebrate Only Her Younger Years. Why?

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1

It's not that difficult to understand. This country is obsessed with youth and strong, powerful, loud women are never celebrated until they are dead. Sinead was ALWAYS herself, without apology and she was literally destroyed for it.

And she is hardly the first dead woman remembered with photos of her in her youth, almost all of them are. Meanwhile men who are famous who die are given the dignity of being shown as they were when they die, distinguished older men.

Women are never celebrated for aging. Even women who celebrate aging (see Patti Smith) will no doubt be remembered with photos of their youth when they die. Even when people celebrate women's birthdays they use photos of them when they were young and beautiful.

The collective denial of aging in this country is pathological.

2

Your dad sounds cool. We're probably the same age. (I don't know who Aaron Carter is.) I'm guessing people like me posted photos of Sinead O'Connor circa early-90s because of the impact she had at EXACTLY that time. Ripping up the picture of the Pope on SNL was a singular moment etched deep into our minds. Nothing since could compare 2 it.

3

Perhaps it's because I'd rather remember her as an activist for women's (and other) rights instead of as Shuhada Sadaqat, wearing a chador.

4

Celebrity-affinity scrabbling, with the obligatory gender-PC opener.


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