I don't know how many people are going to see this, but I say this as someone with a mental illness, the daughter of two people with mental illnesses - one of which was an undiagnosed personality disorder - and the daughter of two people who were/are under state guardianship due to the severity of their mental illness/neurodivergence.
I hope that the unfree Britney people realise that even if she was put back under a conservatorship, all the issues they're uncomfortable with: the erratic behaviour, the disheveled appearance, the weird social media posts and dancing videos, the fact that she hadn't magically become Oops! Era Britney Spears the pop star again the moment the Spears/Taylor Conservatorship lifted, aren't going to go away. At best, they might "force" her to start mental health treatment and put her on a tight budget.
As much as you (I) want the popgirlie you (I) fell in love with, she's now a severely traumatised person who was abused by her family so they could exploit the fact that she was a pawn in an industry build around her likeness. Instead of treating whatever caused her behaviour from 2004-2008, they stuck a wig on her, pushed her on stage and threatened to take away access to her children if she didn't earn them money. The original conservatorship was never about her health or her personhood, it was about how much money could still be squeezed out of her. And when she finally had enough and started pushing back, they forcibly institutionalised her. And she snapped. We can sit here and debate whether or not she needed to be hospitalised in early 2018, but whatever occurred changed her forever, it made her who she is now. Yes, it gave her the fight to get her life - her actual personhood - back, but it killed off that perfect mirage we were sold for decades.
The person in those music videos and album covers. The girl in the school girl outfit and with the snake was always a fantasy. You're never going to get her back. Never. And taking away the rights of a mentally ill, severely traumatised person AGAIN, is never, ever, ever going to bring her back.
The only thing we can hope is that she finds the accountability to know that HER life - how it's lived, how she heals, how she's treated - is all HER. She needs to come to the realisation that her actions affect her life as much as anyone else's. That if she wants to be in a good place, she's going to need to do the work to build that place herself. Through acknowledging that there's a problem, through seeking help and treatment ON HER TERMS. Maybe this will happen, maybe it won't. Maybe she'll decide one day to try and be that girl - that fantasy - we all fell in love with. But putting her back into the system that exploited her FROM EIGHT YEARS OLD isn't going to get that girl back. She doesn't exist anymore.
And it's not about her anymore. It's about the actual person - the imperfect human being with emotions and inter generational trauma who might be a little bit stupid with a bad judge of character because her parents were shithouse, who gets stressed and overwhelmed and breaks just like everyone else - now.
And if you're uncomfortable with it, fuck off.
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