February 28, 2021
With a recent New York Times documentary about Britney Spears trying to get out of her conservatorship with her father and Taylor Swift rerecording her albums as her own, we have entered a new era of women standing up to the patriarchal business we call entertainment.Â
Paul Booth, a Media and Cinema Studies professor at DePaul, discusses his viewpoint on how women are treated poorly in the industry from the early 2000s Britney era to present day.
âFemale artists still get much more ridicule than male artists and the ridicule is much more focused on gender characteristics,â Booth said. âWe’ve, as a culture, moved a bit beyond making fun of someone for having a mental breakdown, but we’re still disregarding women’s work. We still infantilized female artists, we just do it differently today.â