Originally Posted by
Boogiedown
thanxal, I do see your point, the headline could certainly have been better written, and no matter how one reads it.
If read your way , I don't see any further comment in the article's text regarding any questioning of Diana's rightful earning of her fortunes to confirm that's where the author's coming from in the title. I don't see any questioning , doubts, being referenced here at all.
If read in the way I had , the article does go through a laundry list of many of her achievements , although if they were really trying to make the case that she had earned every single doggone penny , they could've listed a great deal more.
Its a shouting headline hoping to suck us in to a rather non-invested article !!
See now were going further into territory that I'd hoped we wouldn't in the first place. This was the very point of my original protest. I found it nice to read about Ross' bounty being attributed as a payoff for a lifetime of her work, presented on its own laurels in of itself, period, never mind any qualifying asterisks, and how nice to just leave it at that.
In reading your additional thoughts , it sounds like that's what you are also preferring? As you say they don't do it with Elvis etc...
All of a sudden I am wondering if we are each asking for the same thing !!
I don't know about these built in biases about black women that you present , I don't , so I'll take your word for it. Just as I'll have to take your word that there are continuous writings that challenge Diana's rightful "earnings" of her riches. I haven't read that. Nor, have I read articles written that way regarding Elvis or The Beatles etc...
Here's as an additional thought:
One other way to explain this headline might be , [[might) , without knowing more about the writer , she may be very young, and her thinking might be , "Diana Ross? She hasn't had a hit record in over thirty years! so one might then ask, how in the world can she be worth 250 million!? And then she breaks down the answer, concluding ...."yes she's worth 250 million and she earned every single penny of it....."
Thanxal , I hope I'm making sense ,
and I thank you for your civility.
cheers!
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