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SHE'S HAVING A BABY
Ani DiFranco is pregnant, with a baby, of all things. The father is Mike Napolitano, producer of DiFranco's Reprieve album. We're not sure we'd want to have a baby with our producer - all that putting it through the mixing desk before making it wetter sounds a bit of a turn-off for us.
DiFranco announced her internal life-making project while picking up a "Women of Courage" award from the National Organization for Women. Her courage, it seems, lays in having released some records on an independent label and refusing to get her hair sorted out - which seems to be a bit of a stretch of a definition for "courage", if you ask us. Having to sort out your own distribution deal isn't really on a par with, say, being held under house arrest for years because of your political beliefs or attempting to stand up to the violent reprisals meted out under the name of justice in some traditional societies. It'll be bloody statues to Tori Amos next, you just see.
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Did you ever listen to her music? She is one of the best people putting out political music concerning women's rights, which is what NOW is all about. She also does a lot of community work in Buffalo, and is heavily involved with the activist scene. Try doing a little research next time, buddy.
Oh, snippy Caitlyn, you're missing the point. There's far more courage involved in, say, working at Planned Parenthood where every time you go to your job you don't know what idiot with a telephoto lens is taking your photo and plotting to put your home address online than recording a few songs. To give DiFranco a 'courage' prize surely undermines the acknowledgement of the really brave people NOW are supposed to be celebrating, and - as the fact that this news story came to the attention of me, over here - removes the focus from them and shines it on someone who already has plenty of media coverage.
In fact, it's worse than that: Ani DiFranco is exactly the sort of person who anti-choice campaigners would create if they were going to stereotype the pro-choice movement: all home-baked sandals and granola hair products. Preaching to the converted...
I'm pretty sure the people making the judgment calls at NOW were insightful enough to consider and dismiss rather easily your surface criticism regarding who should be receiving "courage" awards. Of course writing songs and expressing your ideas, beliefs, etc. takes a different kind of "courage" than being on house arrest for those beliefs or working at Planned Parenthood, to use your example. But I'm pretty sure there's a bigger picture that the well-educated people at NOW were aiming at when they decided that the "courage" award is not reserved for your narrow definition of the word.
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