That said, they were right in this case to check on her. I wish there was a way to get her help without perpetuating her trauma but I just don’t think there is. It fucking sucks.
RE: Re: #ONTDDoesntReadmayjailerOctober 1 2023, 21:24:40 UTC
why would she name a random, struggling prop shop if she hadn't rented from them? lmao. but to answer your question, they spoke to the manager of the store and he confirmed it. he also said as a thank you he was exclusively playing her music in the store.
I can't understand the entitlement people feel over celeb's lives to the point that they will call the authorities for a wellness check of a complete stranger they have no ties to. Maybe I've just seen a lot of full moon / knife and fire dancing performers but I knew the knives were props the minute I saw them and was like "Oh...okay, do you." I'm no stan, but the eagerness of some people to see this woman "freak out and go crazy" is quite frankly disturbing. Does she do weird shit sometimes? Sure. That's no reason to call the law to go to someone's house based off something you saw on their Insta. People exhaust me.
it concerns me that this woman cannot do anything without armchair psychologists reading into it in the context of her mental health. i completely agree that she needs help and i hope she is getting it privately, but a lot of the things she says or does that raise red flags for people wouldn't be thought about twice if she wasn't recently freed from what i thought we all understood was an *abusive, unnecessary* conservatorship.
Also, context is everything. She's a performer, for goodness sakes. She was doing a little knife dancing, and decided to post it on Instagram as she often does for her dance routines. If she was running around her house stabbing things while screaming about how she hated her life, or was cutting herself THAT would be a cause for concern. If she were fire dancing in her backyard some of these "concerned" people would call the Fire Department claiming she was trying to burn down her house.
Let's get real, the reasons why people are making these calls aren't altruistic; it's so if the goddess forbid something horrible was really happening they can make their stupid Tiktoks with the talking head and pointing saying how "they knew a Instagram video from a performer was a secret call for help so I called and saved her! Praise Cthulhu!"
I know a lot of professional performers who work with potentially dangerous props (whips, various fire tools, etc) so I didn't think anything of Britney's knife dance. It's not like she was pointing them at herself or running the blades across her skin. She was just holding them while she danced which is really not a big deal (when you are used to seeing people perform with props, you can tell what can be perceived as dangerous by an audience vs what is ACTUALLY dangerous and what Britney did wasn't much more dangerous than if she had been holding sharpened pencils while she danced - the biggest danger was if she dropped a knife on her bare feet)).
I didn't see a massive outpouring of concern for Shakira's mental health when she danced with knives at the VMAs a few weeks ago (maybe there was and I just didn't see it in my corner of the internet - all I saw was praise for her performance). So it's okay when Shakira does it (despite all of the potentially soul wrecking things she's been through recently with her cheater of a husband
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That said, they were right in this case to check on her. I wish there was a way to get her help without perpetuating her trauma but I just don’t think there is. It fucking sucks.
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the prop shop from which Spears rented the knives has seen a significant increase in business since she name-dropped them
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why would she name a random, struggling prop shop if she hadn't rented from them? lmao. but to answer your question, they spoke to the manager of the store and he confirmed it. he also said as a thank you he was exclusively playing her music in the store.
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it concerns me that this woman cannot do anything without armchair psychologists reading into it in the context of her mental health. i completely agree that she needs help and i hope she is getting it privately, but a lot of the things she says or does that raise red flags for people wouldn't be thought about twice if she wasn't recently freed from what i thought we all understood was an *abusive, unnecessary* conservatorship.
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Let's get real, the reasons why people are making these calls aren't altruistic; it's so if the goddess forbid something horrible was really happening they can make their stupid Tiktoks with the talking head and pointing saying how "they knew a Instagram video from a performer was a secret call for help so I called and saved her! Praise Cthulhu!"
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I know a lot of professional performers who work with potentially dangerous props (whips, various fire tools, etc) so I didn't think anything of Britney's knife dance. It's not like she was pointing them at herself or running the blades across her skin. She was just holding them while she danced which is really not a big deal (when you are used to seeing people perform with props, you can tell what can be perceived as dangerous by an audience vs what is ACTUALLY dangerous and what Britney did wasn't much more dangerous than if she had been holding sharpened pencils while she danced - the biggest danger was if she dropped a knife on her bare feet)).
I didn't see a massive outpouring of concern for Shakira's mental health when she danced with knives at the VMAs a few weeks ago (maybe there was and I just didn't see it in my corner of the internet - all I saw was praise for her performance). So it's okay when Shakira does it (despite all of the potentially soul wrecking things she's been through recently with her cheater of a husband ( ... )
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