Is a "rising female songstress" functionally different than a "rising male songstress"? Asking for press blurb writers everywhere.
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Women's voices are set up so that their value is judged by how pure they sound, a way that enforces a appreciation that is a very shallow aesthetic, than about the poetry and lived story telling of it all.
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I’ve never lived in that world, but I don’t doubt it for a second.
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That’s good to know about the -ess. And I’ve never heard of that before. Who says that woman folk singers carry less grit, weight, and authenticity? Jazz and classical singers and people? So someone made the word songstress as a diminutive term?
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It's like actress, -ess just works like that in English, makes men the default, I can't count the number of times I've seen a room shut their eyes and listen in quiet to some dawdling garbage from a capped croaking oulfella, only to patronize a woman with more interpretation.
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