Violence against women.
With all the magazine stand articles and entertainment tonight shows ranting about the recent incident with singer Rihanna and Chris Brown, it's hard not to think about how far he went and what the real story is. However, when push comes to shove, how far will women go for the name of love? If you don't know the story, apparently Chris Brown hit Rihanna in a domestic dispute between the famous couple. It was on the night of the grammy's. She went to the hospital with visible marks and a black eye. Rihanna cancelled her grammy preformance. Nearly one in three adult women experience at least one physical assault by a partner during adulthood. How common is violence againt women getting? Abused women are twice as likely as non-abused women to have poor health and physical and mental problems, even if the violence happened years before. This needs to stop! My question is this, what posseses Chris Brown to think that this was okay to do? What influences did the media have on this 19 year old man? Is the way that rap artists portray women affecting the way certain people view women? Reffering to them as "ho's" certainly makes them feel like nothing.
-Researchers estimate that between one-million and four-million women suffer nonfatal violence from an intimate partner every year.
-Men who have witnessed their parents domestic violence are twice as likely to abuse their own wives compared to children of non violent parents.
-More than 50% of batterers also abuse their children or their victim's children.
I feel that adolescent's should be taught how serious this problem is in public schools. Young men and women learn the importance of safe sex in public schools, so why not safe relationships? How many women need to suffer from physical and mental problems before this issue is really addressed? My hope is that this incident with Chris Brown and Rihanna will finally open everyones eyes and learn that this is not normal and can really cause a lot of pain and sorrow.
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It is interesting that rap (and rock) often portrays violence against women as fun or desired, but Chris Brown's music and videos exploited women less than is standard in the industry. How did this 'clean cut' R&B artist manage to damage his image so much with this incident- would it have been as bad for him had he been more exploitative/violent in his depiction of women in his music?
ReplyDeleteI've read several other blogs about the incident- some of you may be surprised to see just how many people (male and female) defend him staunchly. People have posted things like 'maybe she's a pain in the ass' or 'I've heard she really likes to push his buttons.' Comments like these are obviously meant to remove the responsibility from the perpetrator of the violence. Rumors are spreading that she plans to stay with him. How does her position as a role model to young girls make staying with him even scarier than it is interpersonally for her?
This is true when kids grow up where there is violence going around them they more likely to be like that when they grew up. Because they see it around them all the time so it is not a big deal to do that. Especially when parents doing things like that for example hitting each other in front of them that make more hard for them to believe when someone tells them violence is bad at school or anywhere when they play with other children. On the other hand when famous people fight and special teens they are being bad influence to their fan. Because they might think that if one of their fans is doing it so it’s ok anybody to do it.
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