It's so foolish

"Bigger" =/= "better"!!! If only people could grasp that concept, we'd be getting somewhere! I'd give my eye teeth to sing your rep, hon! I wanted to be a coloratura so badly and I absolutely hate it when my coloratura and soubrette friends are put down (or worse, pitied!!) for the size of their instruments. It's so ridiculous. It's like pitying an orange for not being an apple. I suppose the grass is always greener on the other side, but I've never understood why amateurs in particular seem to value size of voice over quality of voice they way they seem to.