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(elaopa.org)A chất lượng confluence of events this past weekend put a laze focus on how so many men have capitalized, for their own career success, on both society"s pleasure in consuming accounts of women"s suffering & our propensity for denigrating "nasty women."
What vì chưng these developments giới thiệu in common? Among other things: an expression of society"s attitude toward the bodies và lives of famous women -- and Justin Timberlake, whose relationship with both women exemplifies (whatever his own intention) how men benefit from a cultural acceptance of misogyny.
Timberlake and Spears had been a legendary star couple. They performed together on The Mickey Mouse Club as children and dated for four years before splitting in 2002, just as Timberlake was launching what would become his blockbuster solo career & two years before he, while performing with Janet Jackson at Super Bowl XXXVIII, botched a "costume reveal" và briefly exposed Jackson"s breast on live television. Both Timberlake và Jackson apologized afterward, but Jackson suffered severe consequences to lớn her career, including being blacklisted by Viacom, while Timberlake"s thrived. Most notably, in the immediate aftermath, Timberlake was invited lớn attend the 2004 Grammy Awards while Jackson was not.
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Driven largely by discussion of the Spears documentary & Janet Jackson Appreciation Day, social media lit up with conversations about Timberlake"s relationship with Spears & public humiliation (even if inadvertent) of, her idol, Janet Jackson, as platforms for his career. The layering effect of these conversations effectively reframed Timberlake"s launch and establishment of his solo music career. The documentary specifically highlighted how Timberlake appeared lớn control the truyền thông media narrative about his breakup with Spears, complete with claims that she cheated on him & broke his heart -- expressed in his debut solo album, "Justified." According lớn a recent Buzzfeed report, Timberlake is receiving a high volume of criticism on Instagram, along with demands he apologize khổng lồ Spears. Timberlake did not respond to lớn Buzzfeed"s requests for comment.