Sady Doyle's Trainwreck Deconstructs Our Obsession with Suffering Women

Sady Doyle's Trainwreck Deconstructs Our Obsession with Suffering Womenby Megan BurbankBritney Spears became human to me in 2007. Until her very public breakdown that year, Britney had seemed like a robot built in a lab according to the exact specifications of the male gaze. She wasn’t for me. From the comfort of my feminist-populated women’s college in New England, I’d scoffed at Britney. And then, as I watched on a friend’s computer in our dorm as Britney shaved her hea