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>i couldn't disagree more. where do you think anger comes from?
>sensitivity...
>i don't know why i'm going so off on this. i guess because i think 
>anger is just so amazing. it doesn't need to involve blame, or shame >or
violence or anything. i know i couldn't be so happy if i wasn't so >angry
some of the time. make sense? i think i can only realize how >achingly
beautiful everything can be when i've also seen how >heartbreaking
terrible it can be, and fought against that side. 

you said it sista. 

>Name another female singer who would tear up a picture of 
>the Pope on nationwide television. 

ani difranco.  if she wanted to.

and malcs, you've referred to "angry women singers" here, and i'm
wondering how much you've actually listened to the ones we are referring
to, because it seems that you must be talking about different ones than
we are - these are not sitting back angry types who do not use their
perceptions to affect change.  maybe you are just are just making a
general reference - that's dangerous.  

i never realized that there were so many ani fans on this list - but
after thinking about it, it doesn't surprise me.  she has more heart than
just about any other songwriter of this generation.  it's funny, malcolm,
that you came back at an ani quote with one from bob dylan - she toured
with him this summer.  she had other plans, but when he called her up and
asked, well, how can you refuse opening for bob?  i guess he doesn't see
her as a knee-jerk simplistic sexist.

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