Domestic abuse and Chris Brown
After the infamous Chris Brown-Rihanna spat, when Brown badly beat her up, Brown has been doing damage control by going on every talk show. He speaks about how sorry he is and then goes on talk of his next album.
HE WAS kid who had it all… literally. He had the money, the big house (many actually), a truckload of talent, insanely expensive rides, platinum records, one sizzling hot equally successful girlfriend and he had them all before he even turned 20. Come on his 18th birthday was actually featured in Vh1 as a one hour special. His birthday was special. Chris and Rihanna lived the charmed life. They were young, hip, successful and insanely in love and from outside their life was the perfect fairytale. The problem is the world still believes that fairytales are true. The world was stunned because it suddenly realised that a woman as successful as Rihanna, was just a girl… standing in front of a boy… who had beaten her up… badly. Brown went into seclusion as did Rihanna. Everyone but the concerned parties had an opinion to give. Six months have passed. Brown has been given probation and no jail time. Again, the gossip mags started printing their pictures in their pages. Nowadays, she looks happy going to parties and launches. He looks sorry but content and ready to move on. In fact he is already doing damage control by going on every talk show that would have him. His interviews are so surreal. Brown talks about how his step father beat up his mom and abused him as well. He speaks about he still loves Rihanna. He speaks about how sorry he is and how that incident was very “out of character.” And then he starts talking about his next album. When the Indian Domestic Violence act was amended in 2002, it was criticised by some parties that it seemed to cater only to women. Then one judge came out and justified unfortunately in this world that most domestic cases do happen against women. And this case with Rihanna makes us realise that domestic violence doesn’t simply contain itself to the lower or middle classes… it is everywhere. And it is usually (not always) the woman. Chris Brown can apologise till his face turns blue but does that mean the public should let him get away with this and forgive him? If his next album sells, then in another level we the public are actually condoning this horrendous activity. We are saying “It is okay to beat up a girl as long as you turn up on Larry King and talk about your daddy issues.” As for Rihanna, one can only hope she comes out of this stronger than ever. And hope she remains a symbol for every girl out there whose significant other abuses her – physically or verbally. But even if Brown truely repents and learns from his mistakes, one thing is for sure, his album would have blood on it – Rihanna’s.
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