23/01/2026
‘Brooklyn Beckham is angry. By now, you know this. You might have memorised snippets of his statement accusing his parents of trying to sabotage his marriage. You have probably laughed at the endless memes. And you’ve almost certainly exchanged theories about the future of Brand Beckham in various WhatsApp groups.
‘But amidst the online of it all is one bleak, somewhat ignored, truth: there’s one person whom Brooklyn seems angriest with of all. And that’s his mother. The focus is on women fighting against one another. And that’s sadly often the case in the public consciousness, even when the thing that women are fighting about is a man.’
As Brooklyn Beckham’s ‘controlling’ narrative feeds into a familiar trope, writer Olivia Petter asks why women are always to blame.
