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First when he was on the Grammy's and then the other night when he was on TV tons of young women went on twitter to say that R&B singer (and known woman beater) Chris Brown is so sexy that they want to be beaten by him,
I find this very disturbing, especially because I have a hunch this is an expression of major changes taking place in our culture....that a man being what women consider "sexy" trumps everything else including if he is violent towards women.
I see this as a generational shift in values. Baby boomer women wouldn't have thought this way. In fact I would guess they (as a group) would be the most outraged at the idea of women saying they want to be beaten by a man while I would guess many younger women can "feel" and relate to the women saying they want Chris Brown to beat them to a pulp.
So what do you think? Are the women who say they want Chris Brown to beat them a crazy, small minority that don't represent women as a whole? Or are they representitive of a wider trend of women who accept abusive males as long as they are "sexy".
Many women will put up with almost anything if a guy is good looking/rich/famous enough. However, most women aren't putting up with much from average or slightly above average guys.
So what do you think? Are the women who say they want Chris Brown to beat them a crazy, small minority that don't represent women as a whole? Or are they representitive of a wider trend of women who accept abusive males as long as they are "sexy".
I think (hope) that they are just silly little middle/high school girls who are just joking around.
I think this is actually just a continuation of a trend. There have always been women or girls who find this acceptable in theory (certainly some 50 years ago, it wasn't even considered THAT big a deal if a man was abusive), but constraints on what it was acceptable to express in public kept them quiet over the last 20 years or so. The internet and the age of Twitter give them a forum that allows them to remain faceless. They're still idiots, but now they can express these things publicly.
There have always been and always will be women who put up with abuse. Sometimes they feel they have no choice. Sometimes they think they deserve it. Sometimes they are abusive back. This is not a new phenomenon. It's just more public now.
Let me tell you, had I been Rhianna that would have been one hell of a good fight because I would have whopped his ass once I got up off the ground..I've been slapped one time across the face and that guy had no idea of what hit him after I realized what had just happened.
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