FX tackles the "9/11 of the culture wars" with trailer for Janet Jackson doc Malfunction
The producers of Framing Britney Spears are tackling the massive fallout from the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show

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The last few years have seen a persistent—and welcome—re-evaluation of the way the media and the wider world treated the female pop stars of the 1990s and 2000s. (I.e., the realization that pretty much every aspect of said treatment was shot through with misogyny on a frankly staggering number of levels.)
Now—on what is also, coincidentally or not, the same date as the end of one of the enduring symbols of that period, the conservatorship of Britney Spears—FX has released a trailer for a new documentary tackling another milestone in our collective crappy cultural treatment of women superstars: Malfunction: The Dressing Down Of Janet Jackson.