Excuse me but I have to get this off my chest
Excuse me but I have to get this off my chest: Rihanna just needs to stop and go away, figure out who she is w/o all the hype. She makes me so sick anymore with all the crap she's trying to pull. Rape should not be used to promote a career...
If there was a sturdy calm message behind it, maybe some truth and information on statistics and contact information for RAINN, etc, and if she was doing this out of the kindness in her heart, that's one thing. She could have gone about this a whole other way. But she's just doing it for "entertainment", to look "edgy", oh hey, she killed someone who was attacking her, maybe more symbolism for Chris's abusive attack and she's so strong which she's still riding on and beating a dead horse over or whatever, who knows, but it's not cool and it doesn't make her look tough. It makes her look stupid. And the majority of people who have been through the ordeal knows that it affects the rest of your life, you don't generally "win" over the situation bc it's lose, lose, whether the man is put away, killed, or not turned in at all. Anyone who unfortunately experienced something like that will not see this as "art" and they will not take it lightly. I know I won't.
And yes, she might be attacked even if she did the statistics thing bc it's such a touchy subject, one that, I and some others feel, shouldn't be displayed as entertainment the way it is. But at least she'd be doing it for the right reasons -- to promote truth about it. And it's not that people want her to pretend the Chris thing didn't happen, but she's still using it to gain publicity. She's still using it as her money maker. Tina Turner was beaten to hell and sexually assaulted for YEARS and though she did have a song some argue was about it and did eventually speak on it, her entire second part of her career wasn't based solely on it -- and she gained more respect because of it. She showed her strength by going on and sticking to who she truly was. Not creating this hard, fake image to show how edgy she was.
(Not a musician, but Oprah is another one who comes to mind, who was sexually assaulted and had some rough struggles growing up, but didn't change who she was because of it. She grew from it, she spoke on it, and she didn't drag it on and on and on.)
It really irritates me that she's arguing about the artistic side of it. OK Rihanna can be artistic all she wants. It's one thing to reinvent yourself. It's another to lose your identity. She's really seemed to have lost herself.
And for those saying shit like, "I guess people see what they want to see because I don't see her using the CB incident so much as other people won't let it go. She's said numerous times she has moved on from that and I believe her. Can she not touch on the subject of rape/domestic violence without it being about CB?"
Well my response is, she didn't really touch the actual subject of rape, and the REAL aftermath, and she didn't show statistics about that OR abuse. She just tried to heighten her image of being strong and rough. She continued to play the victim/victim gets "justice" for what happened to her, and she did it poorly. Maybe if she walked away from all these things she's doing for a while, with this image she's creating or her label's creating for her, then maybe the public would let the CB thing go. But she chooses to continue on the rant, so people are going to call her out on it.
It amazes me that she thinks her video portrayed "the real world" and that she thinks her redundant choices w/her career is "art". And again, if she wanted to actually defend herself and her choices on Twitter, she should have done it to raise actual awareness, not promote more violence and/or death by revenge.
She needs to grow up and face responsibility for her actions. And she needs to figure out who she REALLY is. Wanna be the voice for women? Great. Do it responsibly and realistically... if she can figure out what those two words really mean.
(You can go here to see the video, and here to see her Twitter responses to the backlash. I'm not posting it here.)
If there was a sturdy calm message behind it, maybe some truth and information on statistics and contact information for RAINN, etc, and if she was doing this out of the kindness in her heart, that's one thing. She could have gone about this a whole other way. But she's just doing it for "entertainment", to look "edgy", oh hey, she killed someone who was attacking her, maybe more symbolism for Chris's abusive attack and she's so strong which she's still riding on and beating a dead horse over or whatever, who knows, but it's not cool and it doesn't make her look tough. It makes her look stupid. And the majority of people who have been through the ordeal knows that it affects the rest of your life, you don't generally "win" over the situation bc it's lose, lose, whether the man is put away, killed, or not turned in at all. Anyone who unfortunately experienced something like that will not see this as "art" and they will not take it lightly. I know I won't.
And yes, she might be attacked even if she did the statistics thing bc it's such a touchy subject, one that, I and some others feel, shouldn't be displayed as entertainment the way it is. But at least she'd be doing it for the right reasons -- to promote truth about it. And it's not that people want her to pretend the Chris thing didn't happen, but she's still using it to gain publicity. She's still using it as her money maker. Tina Turner was beaten to hell and sexually assaulted for YEARS and though she did have a song some argue was about it and did eventually speak on it, her entire second part of her career wasn't based solely on it -- and she gained more respect because of it. She showed her strength by going on and sticking to who she truly was. Not creating this hard, fake image to show how edgy she was.
(Not a musician, but Oprah is another one who comes to mind, who was sexually assaulted and had some rough struggles growing up, but didn't change who she was because of it. She grew from it, she spoke on it, and she didn't drag it on and on and on.)
It really irritates me that she's arguing about the artistic side of it. OK Rihanna can be artistic all she wants. It's one thing to reinvent yourself. It's another to lose your identity. She's really seemed to have lost herself.
And for those saying shit like, "I guess people see what they want to see because I don't see her using the CB incident so much as other people won't let it go. She's said numerous times she has moved on from that and I believe her. Can she not touch on the subject of rape/domestic violence without it being about CB?"
Well my response is, she didn't really touch the actual subject of rape, and the REAL aftermath, and she didn't show statistics about that OR abuse. She just tried to heighten her image of being strong and rough. She continued to play the victim/victim gets "justice" for what happened to her, and she did it poorly. Maybe if she walked away from all these things she's doing for a while, with this image she's creating or her label's creating for her, then maybe the public would let the CB thing go. But she chooses to continue on the rant, so people are going to call her out on it.
It amazes me that she thinks her video portrayed "the real world" and that she thinks her redundant choices w/her career is "art". And again, if she wanted to actually defend herself and her choices on Twitter, she should have done it to raise actual awareness, not promote more violence and/or death by revenge.
She needs to grow up and face responsibility for her actions. And she needs to figure out who she REALLY is. Wanna be the voice for women? Great. Do it responsibly and realistically... if she can figure out what those two words really mean.
(You can go here to see the video, and here to see her Twitter responses to the backlash. I'm not posting it here.)