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The alarmist headlines follow each other every time Spears uploads a video to Instagram of her dancing, showing a dress or speaking with British accent. The networks are filled with comments by pointing out their “deteriorated” mental and suggesting that, perhaps, “it should be guarded again.” Suddenly, subjecting a 43 -year -old woman seems like a good idea, although a judge has released her after 13 years.
It is more alarming than we have not learned absolutely anything in these years, in which the importance of speaking properly about mental health has been put on the table. Not even having as a history the case of Brian Wilson, of the Beach Boys, whom he had to live in a much less prepared time to talk about these issues. But neither does the #Freeebrritney movement seem to have led us to talk about mental health more human or empathic.
The #Freeebrritney movement served to free Spears from its guardianship, but in the eyes of the public it is still a “crazy” person, and a crazy person should not expose their madness in social networks. The idea is that it is not “trained” to be a public person or who, directly, should not have access to a mobile phone. It may be crazy, yes, but it is not necessary to proclaim it. It is not necessary to explain why this idea is so absurd and ridiculous.
Spears’s content on Instagram is mainly composed of videos of it dancing or walking models, book recommendations or inspiring/spiritual phrases. From time to time, a family video up or from it uploads on a ship, on vacation in Mexico or wherever. Sometimes he publishes long diatribes in which he criticizes his family. Other times his texts seem to have written another person, specifically his community manager making her pass. Nothing that is not usual in the world of megaestrellas.
But when their videos are “rare” or “strangers”, their use of networks encourages concern. “The alarms jump,” the media say. His life “is in danger.” Ironically, also his absence of the networks causes concern: it should be remembered at the same time that he deactivated his Instagram account – something he has done repeated times – and his fans had the occurrence of calling the police, worried, to go to his house to check that it was fine. Spears declared that his fans’ action had seemed an “invasion.”
When Spears sang, in 2001, that he felt ‘Overprotected’, surely he did not see how relevant his lyrics would sound in 2024 or 2025. The supposed protection of fans and media, who believe they watch over their mental and physical security, but whose behavior It reveals a deep capacitism, it manifests itself in its most extreme form in the suggestion – compared by many – that perhaps Spears should be subject to a guardianship, which perhaps free it from it was not a good idea. In spite of even what she said before a judge in a 22 -minute audio that everyone listened to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzysiWHW8V0
Spears’s videos on Instagram can bother; Its content is not corporate, their photos do not His behavior, in some videos, may seem unusual or even “erratic.” None of this justifies that he should be deprived of his freedom again. Perhaps, the problem is that we have become accustomed to consuming extremely adulterated content, which at all shows reality as it is.
The reality of a mental illness is that you can live with it. A person who lives with a mental illness is – in less extreme cases – perfectly capable of leading a functional life and taking the reins of his life. A person with a mental illness that is a pop star, too. And you may need help or make mistakes like any other person who is not a pop star or is called Britney Spears. It is also valid that we react with surprise or discomfort to your videos; That does not mean that Spears deserves to be reduced to a mental illness that we don’t even have evidence that he has.
The continuous headlines and alarmist comments about the videos published by Spears on Instagram only stigmatize and dehumanize people who live with mental illnesses and, worse, they can persuade others to seek help for fear of being ridiculed. Apart from being able to see Britney Spears as a person, and not as a product, Spears has the right to publish the content he wants, no matter how much he bothers us, without anyone having to come to say that he was better locked up. She has the right to be herself and be free, at the same time.
