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Posts tagged chris brown.
Haters gonna hate !
yes, please. reblog my post and edit out Rhianna’s assault photo.
I will never understand assault apologists.
fucking disgusting, he (and his fans) should be embarrassed to be alive
I’m Not Okay with Chris Brown Performing at the Grammys and I’m Not Sure Why You Are
Later in February, a photo of Brown riding a jet ski in Miami hit the Internet, and singer Usher was caught on video commenting on it: “I’m a little disappointed in this photo,” Usher says in the video. “After the other photo [of Rihanna’s bruised face]? C’mon, Chris. Have a little bit of remorse, man. The man’s on jet skis? Like, just relaxing in Miami?”
The backlash was so severe that Usher was later forced to publicly apologize.
“I apologize on behalf of myself and my friends if anyone was offended,” he said. “The intentions were not to pass judgment and we meant no harm. I respect and wish the best for all parties involved.”
Yeah, go read this link immediately.
There’s a weird thing going on here. It’s something we do in our culture that I have observed mostly in regard to football, but it’s the exact same principle at work here: We are so hungry for redemption stories, and so primed to find reasons within the narrative to offer redemption, that we equate “success” with “atonement.”
In football, this plays out with the idea that a guy like Ben Roethlisberger could have “redeemed” himself after a pair of credible rape accusations by winning the Super Bowl last year; the way that Mike Vick became endorsement-friendly because he had a great 2010 season. Because in the movie version of these events, the injustice that these people who we are not ready to forgive could go on to win — that good things could happen to bad people — is unfathomable. And because we want the narratives in real life to follow those we require from our stories, we have to assume that Roethlisberger winning the Super Bowl would prove that he’d done something, found some inner peace and transformed his life, to succeed.
Or, to bring it back to Chris Brown: The fact that his music is hot means that he can’t be that bad, right? The idea that this dude would beat up his girlfriend, be totally unrepentant about it, act like he’s the victim for people being mad at him, make the best record of his career, and be embraced by the mainstream once again — that has to mean that he’s redeemed himself. Because if not, then we’re all kind of shitty for playing “Look At Me Now” on repeat; and where does the magic to do great things come from, if not some inner reserves of strength that we find because we’ve learned from our mistakes?
So Chris Brown has earned forgiveness because he sold a shitload of records and got Busta Rhymes and Lil Wayne to drop some of the best verses in their storied careers on a hot single. “Success” — at the ballot box, in the ratings, on the charts, on the court or the gridiron, wherever — is valued so highly that it carries “redemption” as a freebie.
What does our society think about men who blatantly and violently disregard the bodily autonomy and bodily integrity of their partners? Watch the Grammys tonight to find out.
(via keepyourbsoutofmyuterus)
I’m sure you know that this year at the VMA’s, in front of 12 million viewers, MTV once again showed their support for the abusive Chris Brown. This time they dressed him in all white and suspended him above the crowd with wires. Meanwhile, they gave Tyler, the Creator the Best New Artists award. That same night he tweeted: “VICTORIA JUSTICE IS GOING TO TAKE THIS DICK. or get socked in her fucking mouth.” He since deleted the tweet. This is the same guy who used the word “faggot” over 213 times in his first album.
MTV has a responsibility to their viewers to support artists who support women, not artists who think it’s okay to beat them — or talk about beating them. They should not use their influence to help misogynistic or homophobic artists pass on their message.Please REBLOG and RETWEET: http://twitter.com/#!/stephbyswillis/status/108418949540089856
WOW-WOW-WOW-WOOOW. I’m sorry to tell you this, but there’s a HUGE difference between actually hitting a woman and rapping about it. Maybe we should also boycott directors who’s making movies about violence against women. Tyler The Creator’s albums is fiction. He’s homophobia is probably also fiction, since one of Odd Futures members (Syd Tha Kyd) actually is a lesbian.
Don’t put Chris Brown and Tyler in the same corner until Tyler has done something that’s even close to what Chris Brown did to Rihanna. Rapping about a fictional rape and calling people faggot, is not the same as doing this;
Please notice the difference.
So we should continue to support someone who raps about hitting women and also TWEETS about hitting a REAL woman that he took a picture with? It starts somewhere, and by him telling young kids that it is cool to hit women, he is starting a whole new generation of abusers.
His album is not fiction to the many people who listen to it, who support him, and who follow in his foot steps. If he thinks its cool and okay to talk about hitting women, what is stopping him from doing it one day? Maybe no one has pissed him off yet enough to be hit? Maybe he just hasn’t had a bad enough day yet?
He is ruining EVERYTHING that women have fought so hard for. He is helping raise a generation of hate
