Plea Deals
Jun. 29th, 2009 12:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
author_by_nightApparently Chris Brown got a plea deal. And people are backing him up because come on, how could Rhianna not have deserved it? Women can be mean too!
My answer? Yes, women can be mean too. There are very horribly abusive women out there. People are people, and people can be twisted and vile, no matter whether they're male or female.
That said... look at the photos of Rhianna. Or don't, they're not pretty, but if you saw them, think back to them.
Except in the case of righteous self-defense, you do not hurt someone you love that badly. You do not cause them hospitalization. Period. And Chris Brown has said that he was not threatened at all - he simply lost his cool and beat her up.
I've known people who went through, or were going through as I knew them, physical abuse. It's horrible. It's inexcusable. These sorry excuses for men should have been locked up.
Instead, there they were, beating these women they vowed to love and protect in sickness and in health as long as they both shall lived because dinner wasn't on the table at exactly 6:00. It happens more than we think.
There's also verbal abuse, which happens more often (and often leads to physical abuse - ask someone I know who was thrown across the room by a guy who was, before, "just a bit clingy sometimes") - but that's another matter.
It is never okay, and it sickens me that yet another abuser is getting away with it.
P.S. Used icon because that is an example of a good, healthy relationship.
My answer? Yes, women can be mean too. There are very horribly abusive women out there. People are people, and people can be twisted and vile, no matter whether they're male or female.
That said... look at the photos of Rhianna. Or don't, they're not pretty, but if you saw them, think back to them.
Except in the case of righteous self-defense, you do not hurt someone you love that badly. You do not cause them hospitalization. Period. And Chris Brown has said that he was not threatened at all - he simply lost his cool and beat her up.
I've known people who went through, or were going through as I knew them, physical abuse. It's horrible. It's inexcusable. These sorry excuses for men should have been locked up.
Instead, there they were, beating these women they vowed to love and protect in sickness and in health as long as they both shall lived because dinner wasn't on the table at exactly 6:00. It happens more than we think.
There's also verbal abuse, which happens more often (and often leads to physical abuse - ask someone I know who was thrown across the room by a guy who was, before, "just a bit clingy sometimes") - but that's another matter.
It is never okay, and it sickens me that yet another abuser is getting away with it.
P.S. Used icon because that is an example of a good, healthy relationship.
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Date: 2009-06-29 05:25 pm (UTC)I also wonder if Chris would have gotten away with it if he wasn't famous. However, because it is a public case that should be even more reason to not let him get away with it. A message needs to be sent that abuse is not okay.
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Date: 2009-06-29 11:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-29 08:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-29 10:25 pm (UTC)I think the worst thing about this is that Rihanna and her attorney gave him the plea agreement. WTF?? He beat her to a pulp because she threatened to call the cops because...oh, wait, he threatened to beat her to a pulp. And she decided it was a good idea to toss it under the rug and give him a few hours of comm. service he'll never do.
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Date: 2009-06-30 03:31 am (UTC)*shakes head* there just isn't anything else I can say.