Yes he’s over-doing it, but it got him a platform and it’s one where a man talks about periods and respecting women. I can't hate on that. They won’t go all out like him, but they might start thinking about it and not find it gross when a woman leaves a tampon in their waste basket. It’s performative, but it gets…

Right?? Like who doesn’t love the bathrooms when you’re out and about that have fun stuff like free tampons, lotion, mouthwash, etc. Little extras are so easy but go so far.

I’m a ciswoman with a functioning uterus, but I’ve had a Mirena IUD in that uterus in one form or another for over 10 years. As such, I haven’t had a period in over a decade.

My husband and his roommate used to do this in college. It was 100% a “way to get girls” by showing how thoughtful the guys could be.  (I was one of those girls.) 

As someone who goes a bit beyond when it comes to keeping my guest room stocked (I load up the local travel guides, stationary, snacks, toiletries, bedside carafes, coffee and tea selections, and even have a guest-room coffee pot and container of spa slippers), I understand this guy’s urge to be like... everyone who…

Ehh, good on him, though it does come across as braggadocio. Certainly when I was 25, I wasn’t this thoughtful. It took a gf asking if she could leave tampons and other supplies at my place to even give it a thought. Then it was like “Oh shit! Of course!” So if he’s bringing some awareness to da bros, that’s something.…

I agree (on both counts). The moment being organized or harnessed was me building from your speculation. I don’t think the FreeBritney swarm is being harnessed though. I see more stan culture and cultural reassessments mixing than Britney paying people to have the whole thing happen.

Let me put it this way: I think the Free Britney movement is at least as organic as the people who swarm you on social media if you whisper “Michael Jackson was a pedophile.”

... yeah, why would she do that?

“She can make millions but not care for herself” is such bad logic, though. The skills it takes to perform for 90 minutes are different from the skills it takes to get through daily life. Just look at all the performers who kept working through devastating addictions. Or for that matter, look at Howard Hughes. Successf…

I don’t think your position is completely unreasonable either, but I’m skeptical that anything much would have leaked that Britney didn’t want to get out. There’s a lot of legal protection for private health information; additionally, celebrities tend to use NDAs liberally. If Chadwick Boseman could keep his cancer…

Her current man is spinning this giant narrative about her and pushing this, and a court rejected it so he’s not pushing to win the court of public opinion. If Britney is doing so well right now, why would it need to be changed? I can’t help but think that people are conspiring to gain control of her from her dad so…

Yes to this a million percent. Like leave the lady alone already. The NYTimes creating this documentary is just another greedy bite at the Britney apple all dressed up as highbrow journalism. Also, Justin Timberlake is a dick, but bad relationships and revenge songs don’t give another person a mental illness. That’s…

She did cheat on him though, no? Of course she wanted to keep things private if she was the one cheating. So you could argue she publicly humiliated him first. If anything, out of all the crap he’s done since (Janet, cheating on his wife, etc), publicly slamming his first serious girlfriend for cheating on him is…

Exactly. I’ve seen people suggest Jamie Spears is bribing judges, which seems...unlikely.

Oh yeah, I don’t mean to say I don’t think she needs the conservatorship. Occam’s razor is that she does — if it were as easy to get one instituted and upheld as half the internet seems to think, it would be the go-to for every rich family with an relative they couldn’t control. The fact it’s so enormously rare…

The thing that stands out to me that doesn’t seem to get talked about as much is the fact that as recently as November a judge denied her requests to make changes to the conservatorship. Not some shadowy record executive or people trying to profit off of her or her dad. An actual judge in a family court. Even one of…

Completely agree with all of this.

Thanks. I know all about it and I’m still not feeling the outrage all of you are. And I still can’t manage any kind of strong feelings toward Timberlake, good or bad. Like you said, he’s banal. Sure, he’s a weasel but no more so than a ton of other people. He’s not even an interesting villain. As for cheating on his…

My new conspiracy theory is that Britney Spears’ people are guiding this whole Framing Britney/#FreeBritney phenomenon. Not to say she wasn’t treated unfairly and doesn’t deserve better — she very much was, and of course she does — but the way it’s all SO positive for her and all the voices make the exact same points?…