Opinion: Britney Is The Latest Victim Of The Industry Machine
Britney Spears' appearance in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday points to a broader history of how women in entertainment and the music business have been treated.
During a hearing Wednesday at Los Angeles Superior Court, Britney Spears asked the judge to be released from the literal control of her father, in a conservatorship that has dictated her life for the past 13 years.
Inside of her anguished remarks about her personal situation, there were many broader questions — about the intersection of gender and autonomy, enduring stigmas around mental health issues, how to grapple with toxic family dynamics, possible substance abuse, and the pressures that the entertainment industry and the media often put on young performers, especially female performers.
For a whole host of reasons, Spears seems to be have been caught right in the middle of a very un-perfect storm.
