sad day
I wouldn’t say I lost respect for Rihanna, because the cycle of abuse and getting out of an unhealthy domestic relationship isn’t easy by any stretch.
Instead all I feel is sadness, because it’s sad to me that so many girls and women have been conditioned to respond to this kind of behaviour. That so many people on Tumblr and Twitter, and those ‘Team Breezy’ fans can’t see this kind of personality and lack of remorse for what it is.
It also, mind you, sucks that Chris Brown continued the sort of behaviour that used to scare him from his father. It’s sad that he’s enabled instead of finding help and discouraged from this, and it’s a lot to do with society’s continuing misogyny.
It’s depressing that so much of the outrage has a clear racial bias, and how many other abusers in our media and film and music are allowed to keep going and are shown no penalty for their actions - Sean Penn, Mark Whalberg, god, you could go on.
I’m grateful for how I was raised and the personality type I have, but understand that even that doesn’t mean I won’t face difficulties in my life. I just hope my family and peers have given me the tools to defeat it.
