What should a woman look like most?
At the end of the 1990s, an ordinary girl from a small town in the southern United States used a set of unquestionable data to explain what is called: the ultimate in female power.
Less than 18 years old,
With only 1 album and the first album,
Reached 30 million sales,
It won the first place in the 15 national music charts.
She is the representative figure in the history of American pop culture that cannot be skipped - "Little Sweetie" Britney.
At the award ceremony, she confidently said:
"Of course I can choose for myself, otherwise why would I have my current position?"
Once, even people who were not familiar with European and American circles had heard of her name;
Today, when she appears in public again, she has become the protagonist of "human tragedy".
In 2019, in this era when everyone uses smart phones, some media have filmed her holding a Motorola that should be eliminated long ago;
Even though she earns $60 million a year, she is nearly 40 years old before she has her first IPad.
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In the 1980s, the United States launched a new generation of feminist movements, which advocated:
Women are freed from victim status and have the right to choose the life they want.
Ironically, the massive feminist movement failed to save the international actress who grew up in the feminist wave.
She wants to buy books for her children and needs to apply;
If you want to meet your boyfriend, you need to apply;
Even to do nail art, you have to apply.
Britney's life is as difficult as the Middle Ages.
Crazy Britney
2007 was the darkest moment in Britney's life.
Everyone said:
She was crazy.
She walked into the barbershop under the gaze of many reporters and shaved her hair;
She smashed the reporter's car and chased them with a long-handled umbrella in defiance of the image;
There are reports that she drinks 20 bottles of alcoholic beverages a day and cannot sleep for more than 60 hours;
In addition, the media also filmed that Britney was actually driving while holding a baby who was only four months old...
She seems to be a "bad mom".
As a result, this dream girl who once cured all Americans with a smile has become the object of criticism by everyone under the media's rendering.
She seemed really crazy.
What happened to her?
A year ago, her closest aunt died of illness;
That same year, she ended that short-lived marriage;
Later, Britney began a battle for child custody.
The helplessness of fate lies in the fact that its script is not written by the protagonists.
Britney was in a very poor mental condition due to postpartum depression, and the court used this as an excuse to award the child to her ex-husband.
Britney may not have the ability to raise children independently, and the court that considers this is not a random decision;
But as a mother, Britney, whose mental condition was already bad, had to fall into the collapse of losing her child.
In the custody battle for children, Britney lost to the legal principles used to protect the rights of all people.
In 2008, Britney was forcibly taken to a psychiatric center for psychotropic use.
In order to ensure the personal safety of special groups, under U.S. law, a guardian needs to be appointed to be responsible for their finances and daily life.
Taking this as an opportunity, her father, Jamie Spears, applied to the court and became Britney's "permanent guardian".
Since then, Britney has lost her autonomy, and everything in life must be approved by her father.
He took Britney's passport and credit card and announced that he would rectify Britney's career;
He forced his daughter to perform endlessly for two consecutive years, even if she had a fever of 40 degrees, she had to perform on stage;
Because having a child will affect the performance to earn gold, Britney was even forced to wear a birth control ring, and the appeal of desire to conceive was selectively ignored by her father;
The legendary woman who was once charming and confident on the stage was reduced to a father's money-making machine overnight, and even the most basic personal freedom was completely lost.
Britney, who is desperately trying to earn money, has the proceeds of her labor being appropriated by her father:
There are reports that in the first year of supervision, the father took Britney 3 million US dollars and turned around and bought a villa for his son.
Everyone was shocked by what happened to Britney, so fans launched the #Free Britney campaign.
The scale of this war of liberation is beyond imagination:
Netflix filmed the documentary "Father-Daughter War: Liberating Britney" for Britney;
The female singer who was manipulated in the third episode of the fifth season of the well-known British drama "Black Mirror" is also modeled on Britney;
After the pop song, Miley also shouted at the concert: "Free Britney! "
On September 27, 2021, the U.S. Superior Court of Justice in Los Angeles announced the end of Britney's 13-year life as a regulator.
It was widely believed that being a mother should always maintain a healthy and rational image, coupled with the fact that society at that time avoided mental illness and had no experience with postpartum depression, Britney became a victim.
The United States, which shouts about human rights and freedoms, will also have loopholes in the guardianship system.
The order governed by the law is not exhaustive, and the moral bottom line that people adhere to is also vague.
No matter how far social civilization develops, there will always be some people who will be "missed" by the existing order.
Instead of digging deeper, people crudely define the persecuted people as "lunatics."
Who defines madness?
In the masterpiece "Jane Eyre" by british writer Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, an orphan girl from a cold family, falls in love with the hero despite the gap in identity and status.
When she learned that her lover's ex-wife was still alive, she resolutely chose to leave.
Everyone praised Jane Eyre's sobriety and independence, but few noticed the hero's ex-wife.
She had been locked in the attic and had become a "mad woman in the attic".
At the wedding of Jane Eyre and the hero, this "mad woman" suddenly appears.
She blinded the scumbag's eyes, and with the determination to die together, she burned the entire manor and buried herself in the fire.
In 19th-century Britain, kindness, meekness, and beauty were society's demands for women.
And women have embraced this standard and are trying to lean on it.
But it is this seemingly "perfect" consensus that binds souls who yearn for freedom and shapes one "madman in the attic" after another.
Brontë wrote very little about his ex-wife, and we don't even know why she went crazy.
But one thing is certain: through this "social consensus," the husband erases her original personality and ignores her desire for love and care.
The reason is that the so-called "kindness", "docileness", and "beauty" are actually in the service of the same purpose:
Women should be dominated by their husbands.
The order that is enshrined as experience and truth may not be so perfect.
It is these seemingly reasonable orders that give those who have a heart a chance to reasonably "imprison" a small number of people.
When rights and legitimate desires are not guaranteed by the existing order, madness becomes the only means of fighting for the right to exist.
Madness is not the only option
The essence of madness is fragility, a kind of unavoidable disguise, and there is no power behind it, even vulnerable.
If the existing order is sufficient to ensure that their interests are not violated, then reason can be an effective solution.
A reality show on Tianjin Radio broadcast a program called "I Asked for 50 Million star daughters".
A thin middle-aged man complained to the camera:
After her daughter became popular in the entertainment industry, she did not recognize him and refused to pay alimony.
He wanted to borrow the hand of public opinion to manage his daughter for 50 million yuan and sever the relationship from then on.
According to the clues given by the man in the show, many netizens speculated that the person in question was actress Mao Xiaotong.
But with the deep digging of netizens, everyone found that the inherent standard of "filial piety and faithfulness" does not apply to this matter.
The man and Mao Xiaotong's mother have long been divorced, have a long history of drug use, have been in prison, and repeatedly ask for money, and are a "vampire" without compromise.
The viewers who learned the truth all sympathized with Mao Xiaotong, and public opinion sided with Mao Xiaotong, and her father could no longer hurt her.
On the other side of the ocean, Britney, who has long been "imprisoned" by her father, also won the victory with the help of the power of public opinion with the help of legal weapons.
The purpose of those voices that are inclined to the vulnerable should be to strive to build a more civilized order, form inviolable laws and regulations, or prohibit the touch of the moral bottom line.
"Liberating Britney" is not only a contribution to the rebirth of an international actress, but also a wake-up call to avoid all of us becoming "prisoners".
Because no one knows, next time, the label of "crazy" will fall on whose head?
Written by: Idle Three Miles
Edit: Mediterranean crab
Image credit: "Framing Britney Spears", "Father-Daughter War: Liberating Britney", some of the source of the image comes from the Internet.
Some references:
[1] "Guardian" Britney: It's misogyny and the shattering of the American dream, and the bad sister is coming
[2] Who framed "Sweetie" Britney, look at the ideal
[3] Britney Britney: America's Sweetheart's Life in Purgatory, World Expo
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