🔴Pop icon Britney Spears is battling to overturn her father’s conservatorship.
Her ordeal triggered the movement #FreeBritney.
“But the uncomfortable truth is that this would never happen to a male celebrity”, writes Tanya Gold
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Her ordeal triggered the movement #FreeBritney.
“But the uncomfortable truth is that this would never happen to a male celebrity”, writes Tanya Gold
Thread 👇
telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/…
'There is profit in calling women mad.
📚'History is filled with heiresses placed in institutions so men could spend their money.
'Britney Spears, who is 39 but treated as a child, is one such archetype and only a woman would be expected to endure it'
✍️Tanya Gold
📚'History is filled with heiresses placed in institutions so men could spend their money.
'Britney Spears, who is 39 but treated as a child, is one such archetype and only a woman would be expected to endure it'
✍️Tanya Gold
❌In 2008 she was placed under the control of her father James P. Spears.
Read more on Britney’s legal battle here👇
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
Read more on Britney’s legal battle here👇
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
Spears has testified that she is:
❌Forced to use contraception
❌Held in a mental health institution against her will
❌Forced to perform music against her will
❌Forced to use contraception
❌Held in a mental health institution against her will
❌Forced to perform music against her will
“There is a public hunger to see female artists collapse, which is, by turns, insatiable and vicious.
“Those photographs of Spears shaving her own head in distress – the hairdresser refused to do it - should never have been published”
✍️Tanya Gold
“Those photographs of Spears shaving her own head in distress – the hairdresser refused to do it - should never have been published”
✍️Tanya Gold
“When you watch Spears, 16 and luminous in knee-high white socks and pink hair bobbles, singing: 'My loneliness is killing me,' you know something terrible is ahead.
“This character – and it is a character - is a child with a woman’s regrets”
✍️Tanya Gold
“This character – and it is a character - is a child with a woman’s regrets”
✍️Tanya Gold
Some fans are aware of their complicity.
💬There is another hashtag in the campaign, most famously tweeted by Courtney Love: #WeAreSorryBritney
💬There is another hashtag in the campaign, most famously tweeted by Courtney Love: #WeAreSorryBritney
🔴“Justin Bieber was a danger to the public; Macaulay Culkin was arrested for drug possession; Shia LaBeouf has been treated for alcoholism.
“None of them lost their autonomy for 13 years to a man they told a court they are afraid of”
✍️Tanya Gold
“None of them lost their autonomy for 13 years to a man they told a court they are afraid of”
✍️Tanya Gold
🔴In the latest court hearing over the controversial arrangement, Spears told court he wanted her father charged with conservatorship "abuse"
telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/06/2…
telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/06/2…
The 39-year-old pop star demanded that her father Jamie Spears be stripped of legal control of her career and finances
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