Domestic Violence

Oh Chris Brown. Some people find you attractive but I am not one of those unfortunate few. You could have done much better after the whole beating-the-living-daylights-out-of-your-girlfriend-who-oops!-happened-to-be-Rihanna incident. Lay low. Maybe do some charity work or something. Anger management classes would be a good start. But no. Not only do you not go away, but you decide to open up to the media about how you're a victim in the whole thing. You know, the thing where Rihanna's face bruised your knuckles.

http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/57016935.html?page=3

“People are always gonna talk," the Forever singer said. "But I’m in a positive place. I consider myself a grown-a ** man. And at the end of the day, if I walk around apologizing to everybody, I’m gonna look like a damn fool.”

In the wake of the February 2009 beating, Brown said only “a handful” of his show biz peers, such as Pitbull and Pharrell Williams, had his back.

“When [most] people see certain things happen to somebody, they usually turn away,” Brown said. “They don’t want to get involved with it, because they don’t want their name attached to anything negative -- unknowingly, they kind of show their true colors when they do that.

“But you can’t blame people for how they want to be portrayed or if they don’t want to be associated with somebody who had a particular mishap.”

So there you have it, boys. Beating the crap out of a woman you're supposed to care for and respect is simply a mishap, and shame on all those who don't stand by you in your hour of need.

The thing I feel really angry about is that people are still buying this idiot's records. Oh, and the fact that he is responsible for my grudging iota of respect for Chris Moyles, who has refused to play Chris Brown's music. I dislike Chris Moyles, but Chris Brown is just beneath contempt. I'm all for second chances but he shows no remorse or even understanding that what he did was absolutely wrong. It's just sad that as a society we are so in love with the idea of fame and riches that we would continue to admire and even idolise someone who shamelessly condones violence towards women.

Next up: Roman Polanski.