This is absolutely disgusting. https://twitter.com/treytylor/status/1360661970924556291
Seeing this combined with old Britney Spears interview footage recently, it's almost astounding how callous, ignorant, and cruel we have been towards the crises of mental health, addiction, & more

I'm glad we're just starting to shift for the better, but much more work is needed
It's much more than the stigmas against mental health, but complete misogyny.

We would not see this kind of treatment for a male celebrity undergoing similar issues.
This is about much more than what Britney or Lindsay personally endured.

This is about the public sport of ganging up and maliciously attacking people, especially those in need of help.

This is about modern misogyny and our shameful stigma towards mental health and addiction.
For years, the millions of Americans suffering from some sort of addiction or mental health crisis were also part of a culture that mocked and laughed cruelly at Britney's public breakdown, made sport of making Lindsey Lohan's life hell.

And we wonder why so many never get help.
How can someone expect empathy, kindness, or understanding while watching the stream of late night talkshow jokes and tabloid covers that made a cruel mockery of the crises they were also going through?

It's ugly. It's mean. It's sickening.
To all of the “wOnT aNyOnE tHiNk of the celebrities” people:

This cruel, malicious culture towards undermining addiction and mental health—as well as our culture of casual misogyny—is much bigger than any celebrity.
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