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Free Britney!

I have no idea, but it's her life to live as she chooses I suppose. Her marriage lasted little more than a year. But she doesn't seem to be particularly upset that it ended:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/britn...post-divorce-video-with-mystery-shirtless-men

I guess what medication, if any, she takes, is also her own concern. At least until it has an impact on others. She has spoken about it publicly in the past.

While the star didn't reveal why she was placed on the medication, it is used to treat mood disorders such as bipolar, mania and depression.
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Roboramma said:
What problem has arisen, exactly?

Did she assault someone or something that you think her personal freedoms should be revoked by the state?
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My comment, is Britney ‘off her meds’ wasn’t meant as a slur but was rather tongue-in-cheek trendy street slang for what appears to be a mental health breakdown. My sympathies are with Britney as ISTM she is clearly in a fragile psychological state. I disagree that she is happy and having the time of her life since her separation from her husband. If Sam was just a gold-digger who married her for the $10m pre-nup, then Britney’s psychological health has likely been shattered to the core as she begins to realise that the man she thought was her soulmate, life partner and support was just using her.

Whilst the tabloids and the guys might enjoy seeing pictures of Britney gyrating half-naked around poles and going out obviously bra-less to buy chicken wings, to me that violates the boundaries of a clearly mentally ill and vulnerable person. There is a big difference between, say, Kanye West’s ‘wife’ being seen in a nudie outfit and enjoying the media attention and someone in the throes of a distressing mental breakdown.

It could be that Sam may have married Britney in good faith, full of love and with good intentions, and that he did have to end the relationship because of her erratic behaviour and allegedly beating him up in his sleep. No-one should have to tolerate domestic abuse. But he knew she was a diagnosed with Bipolar (manic-depression). He should have done his homework. This isn’t just someone who gets drunk now and then or has a temper management problem, this is someone who is severely mentally ill.

The end of her marriage IMV is likely to send Britney into a terrifying downward spiral of not knowing who to trust and discovering that social media – Instagram – is all fake and not a firm foundation for good psychological health at all. All the people on there for whom she poses are not her friends or ‘loyal fans’: they are voyeurs. Her two kids refused to attend her wedding and by all accounts they are deeply embarrassed by her public displays of semi-nakedness. The press should not be plastering these images all over the media as Britney is obviously not a well person.
 
Vixen said:
Did you not read my post? It was nothing at all to do with whether people should take pharmaceutical drugs or not, as per the article you referenced.
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You said that you thought she might be "off her meds". That's med-shaming, and stigmatising. It's totally aside to whatever other point you thought you were making, the problems with which I haven't even brought up.
 
Nothing wrong with taking meds.

Criticising someone for being "off their meds" is not "trendy street slang" unless you're a teenage boy in the 70s.
 
arthwollipot said:
You said that you thought she might be "off her meds". That's med-shaming, and stigmatising. It's totally aside to whatever other point you thought you were making, the problems with which I haven't even brought up.
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No, sorry, I think that is ludicrous, considering that it is factual that Britney Spears has recently begun behaving erratically again. It is currently on the news so has nothing to do with any one person's opinion about 'meds'. There is nothing stigmatic about having mental health issues. The issue arises when people treat vulnerable people such as Britney Spears as entertainment to be encouraged for their own vicarious enjoyment as though it is just like watching yet another pop video.
 
Orphia Nay said:
Nothing wrong with taking meds.

Criticising someone for being "off their meds" is not "trendy street slang" unless you're a teenage boy in the 70s.
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When I were a lass we used to say in the playground, 'Go back to Shenley'.

The term ’off his or her meds’ is a turn of phrase of which there are many in the English language. For example, ‘to turn a blind eye’, ‘deaf to criticism’, ‘cack-handed’, ‘legless’, ‘scatter-brained’, ‘dumb’, ‘wheeled out’, ‘spineless’, ‘flat-footed’, ‘heavy-handed’, ‘with a jaundiced eye’, ‘sharp tongued’, ‘potty mouthed’, ‘heartless’, ‘lily-livered’, and so on and so forth: all figures of speech that no-one takes as being literal or the least bit ‘ableist’.

My post and POV is absolutely not ‘ableist’. The thrust of it, pointing out the voyeurism of the public in mental breakdowns in celebrities such as Kanye West or Britney Spears as a form of entertainment, is quite the reverse.

How about if people consider what is actually being said instead of ignoring the content and looking for ways-to-be-offended or combing through for typos. Well? Do you think Britney Spears’ very public unravelling is fair game for the popular press and her followers on Instagram? Or is she a vulnerable person who is clearly unwell?
 
Vixen said:
My post and POV is absolutely not ‘ableist’. The thrust of it, pointing out the voyeurism of the public in mental breakdowns in celebrities such as Kanye West or Britney Spears as a form of entertainment, is quite the reverse.
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There hadn't been a new post in this thread since May until you made the post to report her being "off her meds". Who is the voyeur here?
 
Puppycow said:
There hadn't been a new post in this thread since May until you made the post to report her being "off her meds". Who is the voyeur here?
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And where did you get this idea, Vixen?

Tabloids, Instagram, the popular press?
 
Vixen said:
The term ’off his or her meds’ is a turn of phrase of which there are many in the English language. For example, ‘to turn a blind eye’, ‘deaf to criticism’, ‘cack-handed’, ‘legless’, ‘scatter-brained’, ‘dumb’, ‘wheeled out’, ‘spineless’, ‘flat-footed’, ‘heavy-handed’, ‘with a jaundiced eye’, ‘sharp tongued’, ‘potty mouthed’, ‘heartless’, ‘lily-livered’, and so on and so forth: all figures of speech that no-one takes as being literal or the least bit ‘ableist’.
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"Moron", "idiot", and "cretin" were once technical terms to describe mental "retardation" too, but they aren't any more. We have better terms.

Vixen said:
...Britney Spears’ very public unravelling...
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Doubling down with the stigmatising language. How nice.
 
Puppycow said:
There hadn't been a new post in this thread since May until you made the post to report her being "off her meds". Who is the voyeur here?
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The current news is that she and Sam have decided to divorce. Sam said he had to leave because of her erratic behaviour, such as punching him whilst he slept and 'cheating', he claims.

As this is a forum I was wondering what people thought of Britney possibly having been taken advantage of by a gold digger, or alternatively, is she really now living her best life as someone claimed..?
 
arthwollipot said:
"Moron", "idiot", and "cretin" were once technical terms to describe mental "retardation" too, but they aren't any more. We have better terms.

Doubling down with the stigmatising language. How nice.
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Yes, I know all that. I don't use 'stigmatising language' but now that you have pointed out that you are offended by the turn of phrase I used, I acknowledge the point you are making.
 
Vixen said:
Yes, I know all that. I don't use 'stigmatising language' but now that you have pointed out that you are offended by the turn of phrase I used, I acknowledge the point you are making.
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Weasel words.
 
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