So, You’d Let Chris Brown Beat You?
It was the Grammy Awards last night. Chris Brown was performing. You know, he of Rihanna-beating fame? The night before the Grammys in 2009, he beat his then girlfriend Rihanna so hard she was hospitalised. He received five years probation as a sentence (clearly, those don’t count in Grammy years). This performance was billed as his big comeback. His loyal fans, mostly young girls who seem to have no issue whatsoever with the fact that he beat a girl up, tweeted their adoration and overcome by his boyish good looks, many tweeted how they’d let Chris Brown beat them. Let that sink in. THEN GET REALLY MOTHER FUGGIN’ ANGRY, BECAUSE WE SHOULD BE NOTHING SHORT OF OUTRAGED.
Let’s bypass the fact that these women idolise and still support this imbecile. Let’s look past the mothers who are allowing their teenage daughters to buy his music, therefore teaching them that domestic violence isn’t really that big a deal. As long as he’s cute and can sing a bit, it’s forgivable. Let’s try, as hard as it is, to look past that. And let’s just focus on the heartbreaking and shocking reality that girls are joking about letting Chris Brown beat them for a chance to have sex with him.
Before we go any further, it’s worth having a read of this police report from the night of the incident between Brown and Rihanna.
I’ll wait….
Blood boiling yet? Good. Let’s continue.
So, to those girls who think it’s funny or cute to suggest you’d take a beating to be with a singer/convicted woman beater
You are a new level of desperate I never knew existed.
I hope you never have to experience the terror Rihanna faced that night.
I hope you never have to desperately scramble for your phone to call for help while someone is bashing your head against a car door.
I hope you don’t have to cover your head with your arms and put it between your knees while being subjected to a beating, in a moving car, with no escape.
I hope you never have to see what blood spattering from your mouth after you’ve been punched looks like.
I hope no one bites your hand when you’re trying to loosen their grip on your neck because they’re strangling you.
I hope no man ever says to you, when you’re calling for help, that you just made the biggest mistake of your life and now he’s really gonna kill you.
I hope no man ever puts you in a headlock and squeezes so tight you start to lose consciousness.
Here’s hoping you never have to experience that. I hope even more that you don’t experience it on a prolonged scale, as many battered women do. Terrified to make a move in their own houses, petrified to speak for fear of a beating. Desperately plotting when they’ll be able to escape, but being drowned by fear and uncertainty.
I hope you never have to experience the joy of actually escaping that situation, only to hear people say you asked for it or deserved it. I hope you never have to take your attacker to court and give evidence against him as he sits there denying such repeated beatings ever happened.
That night in 2009, Chris Brown beat Rihanna so hard she was losing consciousness and was hospitalised. It was not cute. It was not funny. And she DID NOT deserve it.
What on earth is going through the minds of young girls, where you think this is acceptable, where you think it’s a fair trade off for sex? I pity you. So many women before you have fought long and hard in the battle against domestic violence, have stood tall in the face of nobody believing them, have endured ridicule and been ostracised by their family, colleagues and the authorities. God only knows how they managed to live through it to fight another day. Many didn’t. And you, you with your flippant jokes and complete and utter lack of respect or just plain human decency, come and piss all over it because you’d do anything for the chance to get laid by a woman-beater.
You have some serious soul searching to do.
UPDATE: Red Magazine have a petition on their site: Speak Up, Save a Life, to get every police force in the country to work alongside an Independent Domestic Violence Advocate in its work to prevent domestic violence and help save lives. Please go sign it here.
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