Chris Brown Tattoos Battered Woman Onto Neck

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That's because it's less about any actual forward movement in the cause of stopping or hampering domestic abuse, but more cathartic ranting wrapped up in a false sense of sincerity and concern for abused women. It's gossip column work at it's most sickeningly effective. Grief porn.

QFT. This was a personal attack and gossip but battering is a serious problem that requires serious answers.

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That's not store issued, that's some asshole.

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Yo.

wats hilarious is that looks like its placed INSIDE the casing, which means theres a great chance a store employee is the culprit..........




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Its on the outside, you can see where it covers the hinge.

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Yo.

ahh, good point.

of course, it *could* still have been done by an employee.........




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Somewhere, Ike Turner is looking up at Chris Brown right now and saying, "What a douchebag."

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Likely the women who would go beaten while people discuss these inanities in their names instead of actually doing something helpful and progressive.
Alright, that's some serious Hyperbole on my part, but we really could use to at the very least stop pretending we're talking about Chris Brown for any other reason than celebrity gossip.

I fail to see how bringing attention to the case of a single domestic abuser somehow doesn't help bring light onto all domestic abusers. We're having a conversation and placing blame squarely on the shoulders of the person who deserves it, and not on the victim for once.

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I fail to see how bringing attention to the case of a single domestic abuser somehow doesn't help bring light onto all domestic abusers. We're having a conversation and placing blame squarely on the shoulders of the person who deserves it, and not on the victim for once.

Well, it may be a fine point but I agree with Caleb. The whole tone of those articles was gossip---like it didn't matter if he stole gum, flipped the bird to children, or cursed off the president. It was just to dig up dirt not face the reality of domestic abuse or make any strides lessening it. Now, others might not have seen it that way and just taken this as an objective and impersonal battle against abuse, but I didn't see it that way. But like I also said, I don't think it looks anything like a battered woman or any specific woman unless there's one out there with stylized half-skulll face.

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It looks like Psycho Pirate's medusa mask after Black Adam put his fist through it.

If he wants to look foolish, so be it. I don't know why this is news.

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I fail to see how bringing attention to the case of a single domestic abuser somehow doesn't help bring light onto all domestic abusers. We're having a conversation and placing blame squarely on the shoulders of the person who deserves it, and not on the victim for once.

Thing is, this isn't a conversation about domestic abuse. This is a conversation about how much of a douche bag Chris Brown is, which isn't some form of public service, or in an attempt to raise awareness, it's a feigning of sincerity and concern. In the time since his savage beating of Rhianna there have been approximately 13 million cases of domestic abuse in the US alone. The conversation about whether or not Rhianna should have been made into a role model ended a long time ago. Almost the entire conversation about the event ended in 2009. The only thing left are people who keep bringing this up just to bring it up so they can bash on Chris Brown for easy sympathy points or some other insincere and disingenuous reason.

I get that it likely burns you up that he beat the rap, but it happens. Our justice system has it's flaws. If we started a conversation about our flawed law system out of Chris Brown then I might be willing to hear it, but that's not happening now if it hasn't happened since 2009. What needs to happen is for us to move on from this, and stop acting like some vengeful accusers watching and waiting for him to slip up and do him in for good next time. Because that's still just celebrity gossip, you're just pretending there is meaning to it because you're too ashamed to admit it's no better than any other form of grief porn. At the very least the man deserves more than to be bashed upon every time he does something just because we derive enjoyment from it, because that's just childish. He might be childish too but if you don't mind me bringing up something childish in response of it, two wrongs don't make a right.

We need to actually have a conversation here, we need to get people talking about this, because I'm not comfortable with 13 million cases of domestic abuse, possibly 13 million different women and men having been beaten since February of 2009, and I'm more uncomfortable with the idea that they have taken a back seat to the ideals of blaming just one person. It's been three years. Let it go. I can name you 13 million more important things than him.

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That's pretty much what I was trying to say but better.

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Do me a favor and don't tell me what I mean.

You know why I'm disgusted by Chris Brown?
It's not that he beat the rap, it's that he's still popular. There are people out there who care so little about the fact that he beat the ever living piss out of his significant other that it won't stop them from buying what he believes to be music.

That they think so little of how this man treats a woman he was supposed to have loved that they will defend him to the point of victim blaming.

So while you may consider it beating a dead horse to bring up that Chris Brown beat a woman every time his name surfaces in the media, I see it as a grassroots public awareness campaign along the lines of The Scarlet Letter. He should be ashamed for what he did.

You know who else should be ashamed? The perpetrators of the 13 million other people you keep mentioning. You know how we shame them? By talking about how it's wrong to beat people. By ending the silence. By not blaming the victims. And most importantly for this conversation: by not derailing.

OH, and I'm not ashamed of the shadenfreude, I revel in it.

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Do me a favor and don't tell me what I mean.

I love that it's you who's saying that.