in her honor, go out and do good no one asked you to do. humanize someone the world refuses to see. refuse to let anyone put you down just for who you are

We're ALL upset! Dolly Parton died!

This is the best meme of this type I have ever seen.

RIP the amazing Dolly Parton. Let's honor her memory by having empathy for one another and doing good where we can.

The charity is only for children up to the age of 5. I find that odd. Don't most children need reading material after the age of 5?

The charity is only for children up to the age of 5. I find that odd. Don’t most children need reading material after the age of 5?

Well, looks like now's your chance to prove that you're a better person than Dolly Parton. Go on, do it.

Five stars

The type of reading material should change as we age. Imagination Library does simple children's books for read8ng together. I wouldn't expect a 12yr to still want to read See Spot Run-level books.

Was Dolly a good person ?
True question. I'm not American, she wasn't famous at all in my country. I knew her only because she had big boobs.

Relative to disposable wealth, I think i'm outdonating her already. Do I win something?

Yes. She started a charity called Imagination Library that sends a free book every month to children across the county. Seemed like a genuinely kind and caring person

Dolly was business savvy, she owned her own songs from the start and despite owning the rights (and getting royalties) from over 3000 songs and having a popular tourist trap in Dollywood she never became a billionaire cause she kept sending those profits into her foundation and philantrophic work. She's given away hundreds of millions of books to kids among other things.

lmao, yeah okay dude.

I also don't get to deduct that from my tax.

Your cynicism has been noted.

This reads like Dolly made them upset. Like she taught them to read and then made them read upsetting things.

She also while being from the deep south growing up in a religious household respected and appreciated LGBTQ+ folks.

Don’t most children need reading material after the age of 5?

Most people after the age of 5 can borrow books from the library.

This is for new parents to get books to read to and with their small children to increase childhood literacy and encourage them to read at a later age, like 5+ years old.

We get it. You don't want children to learn to read at a young age. You're so edgy.

yup! kids start to read a bit before the age of five typically and need to learn the basics of literature before that. a lot of people, not necessarily those here, erroneously think it starts later. my "smartest" (according to my parents) sibling started showing interest in reading around the age 4. me, around age 4.5. They always used that one child as their standard of excellence and compared the rest of us to that individual (not even giving their gender because i generally like my siblings, even the shitass. can you believe they shit with their own ass?). well guess what smarty may have a job and a retirement but do they have missing teeth? HUH MOM? yeah who's winning that race now.

wait fuck.

Excellent work detective! Take the rest of the day off.

Yes. Dolly really was one of the very few good ones. She was incredibly smart, despite what she may seem on the outside. The look, even the boobs, were a calculated thing.

Lindsay Ellis released an hour long video asking and answering this same question the day after Dolly passed. Spoiler alert: yes, she was that good of a person.

Even though she said she wasn't a feminist and didn't "do politics". Which wasn't true, of course, but maybe she didn't realise that.

If you openly say you do politics then your followers expect a response to every thing that's going on. Being politically active without being overt about it is much more effective imo.

This you?

Maybe she just didn't think of it as politics. She believed in education, she believed in literacy, she believed in equality, she believed in gay and transsexual rights, etc... To her that just wasn't political, it was just the way you were supposed to be. It was just part of being a good person.

How was your day

Small clarification -- Lindsay Ellis released her video on Nebula last Friday (Aug 21), originally titled: "Yeah, but is Dolly really THAT great?"

She renamed, briefly prefaced, and released it on YouTube following Parton's death.

True. I did intend to say "released an hour long video on YouTube". I also started to suggest everyone go watch it but it was sounding like a shill or something so I deleted all that context from my comment.

There's nothing wrong with that, but she was smart and talented. She leveraged the fact that she (also) had big boobs. And she used much of the profits to help children. Be like Dolly...

Why don't you deduct your head from your ass?

You can tell what someone's politics are but what they consider to be "political". To some people, others just existing as a woman or some type of minority is a political act.

She specifically got big boobs for it lol. She has always been quite open about her fake tits.

Not too shabby. Caught a comedy show after work.

How was yours?

I thought she got them enhanced after already being known for them? Anyway, I forget the exact timeline...

That was at the start. Five years later it went national and six years after that it went international. The Imagination Library gives almost 25 million books to kids each year, all because Dolly’s dad couldn’t read and she saw how that affected his life.

Nah she got her first boob job at 22 lol. Then kept going bigger.

She had somewhere around 1000cc implants by the time she stopped going bigger.

She’s been very open about all her plastic surgery.

More importantly, why would any actual human downvote this?

She did once say "It takes a lot of money to look this cheap!"

oh, yeah. I too believe in all those things and I also don't see them as political -It's everyone else that makes it political. -Not me, though.

Oppositional Defiance Disorder.

Just working on my thesis mostly, plus some procrastinating and met a friend for lunch which was nice

People interested in being less than wholesome on Lemmy.