Miss American Dream

Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Matter
Published in
33 min readJun 9, 2014

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How Britney Spears went to Vegas and became a feminist role model. No, really.

By Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Illustrations by Geoff J. Kim

AA t the top of the steps of Planet Hollywood, on the Las Vegas Strip, an elderly woman dressed in a black wig and a tiara and a fur coat over an evening gown lodged a formal complaint with a…

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Matter

Contributing writer for GQ and the New York Times Magazine. Making fun of my name demeans us both