So sayeth Gatecrasher:
The troubled R&B singer, who was arrested two weeks ago on suspicion of making criminal threats against girlfriend Rihanna, attended his first class in Glendale, Calif., on Monday afternoon.
According to a source, Brown opted for anger management at the behest of his spin doctor, Michael Sitrick. “Chris doesn’t actually have to go by law,” our insider tells us, “but he believes it will make him look better to the public, and he wants to try to get in a few classes before March 5,” his court date.
If you think managing Chris Brown’s anger is tough, just imagine being the assistant manager. You’d have to do all the work and take none of the credit. “Hi, welcome to Chris Brown’s Rage, may I help you? No, I’m sorry, we’re all out of Beating Up Women today, but we’ve got a 20% off sale on Delusional Blame-Deflection. I think that would look really good on you!”
But insiders are rumbling that Chris shouldn’t be taking the anger management classes alone. “Rihanna is temperamental, too,” says our snitch. “They’re both too hot-headed for their own good.”
Guess that makes it okay, then.
You know, you never heard about this sort of thing with Steve & Eydie. They probably had Frank’s pals hush it up.
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Here we go; now we have spin doctors trying to mix crap with sugar and call it chocolate. Let’s be all sure that when “Mr.” Brown will see the inside of a courtroom he will try to look like a new man with a baggage of anger management techniques and a Bible in his hands.
I also hare the “Rihanna got a hot temper too” part. She’s the victim here. She doesn’t need to be put on par with her attacker. I don’t care how crazy she is, she’s not the one who gave the beating.
When she beats the hell out of someone, then we talk about how she needs anger management, too.
Oh yes. VICTIM BLAMING. That always makes you look so credible.
The same logic rapists and misogynists have been applying since the dawn of time. Argh.
My therapist friends tell me anger management is good for one thing: It gets you to count to 60 before you hit someone.
Notice that the spin doctor source called Rihanna ‘temperamental’ and ‘hot-headed’ to suggest she’s just as bad as Brown without getting into libel territory. Rihanna may be a diva, but until she gets arrested for beating someone up, I’m giving her the benefit of the doubt.
Dude, there’s a difference between throwing a nutty over your dressing room eats and repeatedl punching someone in the face. Just sayin’.
i feel bad for rihanna, i do hope she presses charges against him. you know this probably was not the first time he’s hit her.
The insult to the victim and the intelligence of the general public is rife here:
1. The obvious – blaming Rihanna, as though anyone temperamental is somehow deserving of a beatdown, especially when you are twice their size, is an insult to her, women, and human intelligence.
2. Going to anger management classes, for all they are good for, is peachy, but announcing that it’s for PR damage control, rather than say, because you are the type of ass clown that beats women is just… kind of… offensive, really. It’s the thief that isn’t sorry he stole, just sorry he was caught.
If she doesn’t press charges against him and nail his bollocks to the wall, I will lose all respect for her as a human being.
So what? He beat her up as self-protection? Geez even if she did ever ‘threaten’ him there was no need to be so vicious about the attack. There’s ways to defend yourself by just hitting to disable the person. That’s like saying that date rape victims were too flirty for their own good anyway.
The option to press charges is out of her hands now and in the hands of the D.A. To many have backed down in the past so the L.A.’s district attorney’s office will press charges even if the victim does not want to cooperate. They should have enough evidence between the 3rd party eye witnesses and medical reports. The question will be if the DA and/or the sherrif will fold under pressure from Brown’s people.
@katie: I don’t think this was the first time he battered Rhianna, either. It’s just the first time was caught.
I find it sad that Rihanna’s ordeal is getting so much media coverage whilist everyday women in abusive relatioships never get any light shed on their situation until one of them ends up like Laci Peterson. And Rihanna’s situation, though sad and tragic, is not as desperate as, say, some rural housewife’s with 4 children and no job, who’s completely dependant on her abusive partner. Rihanna has something most women in abusive relationships don’t have – money, power, connections, and most importantly, independence. She doesn’t depend on her abuser in any way, except may be emotionally. She doesn’t depend on him financially (often a decisive factor in abusive relationships), they don’t share a residence (as far as I know) and they don’t have any children together (thank God). It still might be really difficult for Rihanna to end this abusive relationship, but it will be relatively easier for her to do so than it would be for an average everyday woman.
I am in no way suggesting that Rihanna’s attack shouldn’t be getting any media coverage, by all means, such heinous crime as abuse (and it IS a heinous crime because it’s perpetrated by someone you love and trust and who’s supposed to love and protect you) should get as much light shed on it as possible. It’s just that it would be nice if the issue of domestic violence in general were getting more attention on a regular basis. Not just when somebody famous and well-liked is being victimized.
My first thought when I read this article was that they mentioned he was going to Anger Management classes so that he looked better to the public? oh, well, then I forgive him.
How about the fact that he beat up his girlfriend. I don’t care if she went into a rage over some scag texting her boyfriend, the fact that she was that beaten up means that he went into a fit of rage. We are not talking about a slap, but fists,bites, etc. That means he did not stop after one hit. Let’s put the blame on the person at fault, Mr. Brown.
You know what? If it had been Chris Brown who left that car with facial contusions, bruises and bite marks (BITE MARKS, people) inflicted by Rihanna, I’d be all about the prosecuting Rihanna until she got over herself. Any woman who abuses a man needs to face the same kind of opprobrium that a male abuser does. Double standards bite the bag only slightly less than abuse itself does.
HOWEVER: That is so totally not what happened here. He harmed her, there are witnesses and documentation, he’s admitted it. He therefore needs to do some time, preferably amongst some people who will remind him what it’s like to be treated rahthah shabbily by one’s date.
Nati, while I agree with the point you are making, I do disagree that it is sad this is getting the attention it is in the media just because she’s famous. Even though it’s pretty clear that Rihanna has a lot of resources the average abused woman does not have, and should theoretically be able to put this behind her far more easily than the average abused woman would, she is still far more interesting to a lot of people than the average abused woman is.
So and So Smith from Idaho with the four kids, the drunk husband, and few options is sadly, an everyday thing that doesn’t generally get publicity because she herself doesn’t speak up a lot of the time. Now, we can go into all the reasons why she wouldn’t, and they are all equally tragic, but in the end, if every woman that did go public with abuse made it onto the news, the short attention spans of our society would be so desensitized that they would not care. And let’s face it, a lot of women, even if they do the right thing by getting out of the situation, wouldn’t want their bruised faces slapped up on the news. I wouldn’t if it were me.
I’m not saying that domestic abuse should not get attention, or that these women should not have help and more resources available to them when I say that, but let’s face it, it’s a big problem, and if it saturated our news reports every single night, it would not only add another hour to the news hour, it would make people blase about it.
I am not one of those people that generally falls for “if a celebrity brings attention to it, it will change things”, but this is one case where the potential is there. She is a young, beautiful woman with money, fame, power and a lot of girls of all ages and races looking up to her. If someone in an abusive situation can look at her and recognize that abuse can happen even to her, and that it can be stopped, they just might take a look at themselves and make the stand they need to make to get out of the situation. This is why I feel strongly that Rihanna should come out, press charges (even though it’s going to happen anyway), and say something positive other than, “I’m fine now, thanks for the public support.” If she doesn’t, then she is missing a huge opportunity to use her fame for good.
I for the record, I would make sweet, sweet love to Rihanna.
(Catch phrase is probably still too soon…)
Would you hit Chris Brown? Just asking.
I think it’s a good thing there is attention being paid to Rhianna’s troubles. It illustrates that domestic violence can happen to anyone and at least it puts the issue up front again. Especially since there are a lot of teenagers/young adults who are in mutual combat or abusive situations with the people they are dating.
I’m not sure if this is true or not but it made me want to vomit.—> http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20262240,00.html
@Chronic
I wasn’t suggesting that every abused and battered woman should end up on the news, I understand that most of them wouldn’t want to and that their privacy must be protected. I was actually trying to say that the media should provide more information about domestic violence itself to the public. The stats on DV are horrifying…I read somewhere that in the US 1 out of 2 relationships is an abusive one. 50 percent! Yet so many people are ignorant about domestic violence. Most abused women don’t even know what legal options are available to them. There are actually people who are not aware that domestic violence is a crime! That’s what I was trying to say – that the media need to inform people. Make sure that the victims know that they should and they can get help. Make sure that the abusers know that they are commiting a crime and that they will be punished. I personally don’t think that the existing punishment for domestic violence is harsh enough. We need harsher punishments – fines, counseling and probations (that’s what most of the perpetrators get) just don’t cut it.
As for Rihanna, looks like her and Chris Brown are back together
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29437112/
And I didn’t say that Rihanna’s story getting media coverage is a bad thing – it’s a good thing, and I think that deceiver did a great job reporting on the story. What I was saying is that there’s not enough public awareness being raised on the problem of domestic violence on the whole.
Gotcha, Nati. I misunderstood the point being made.
I just read the various gossip rags reporting that they are back together. Disgusting. I have now lost any respect I might have ever had for Rihanna. She has no excuse for this sort of stupidity like kids, lack of money, lack of support, etc…
So, they’ve staggered back into each others’ arms? That’s it. I’ve got zero sympathy for Rihanna now. Zero. Whatever happens to her now, it’s on her.
She just showed all those women out there, the ones living in trailers w/four kids, that even someone with her money and connections and opportunity will inevitably go back to her abuser like a dog to its own vomit. She turned what could have been an opportunity to help a lot of people into a reason to give up. Nice work with all that, Rihanna. You just gave him permission to continue. Hope it’s fun for you.
yep, it looks as though they are working things out and are back together. Kind of hard to feel sorry for her now. Been through this before with employees who are battered. You finally give up trying to help them because they are going to do what they want to do, even if it means getting hurt again.
Beige, exactly. She had such a rare opportunity, as a celebrity, as a public person, to take a stand for all the victims of domestic abuse out there. She could have inspired other abuse victims to try to get out of their abusive relationships and get help. She has a lot of fans who, I’m sure, are looking up to her, and now she is now sending them the wrong message.
And I absolutely agree with what you had posted earlier. Women are not the only victims of domestic violence, there are plenty of men who are being subjected to domestic abuse, both in hetero- and homosexual relationships. I’ve seen it first hand. And it’s not even that rare, it’s just less likely to be reported.
However, I wouldn’t call Rihanna stupid…I think she is just really confused. And lost. Domestic abuse victims often tend to deny or minimize the abuse. A lot of the victims blame themselves, they think that they are somehow responsible, that they had somehow provoked the abuser. You start thinking “May be if I had done X or if I hadn’t done Y, he wouldn’t have hurt me”. There’s a lot of self-blaming going on. Or she might be thinking that he’ll change. Let’s also not discount the outside factors – nagging mutual friends and family members, pleading with the victim, begging her to give the abuser a second chance and telling her what a great guy he is…which I’m sure was the case here. Just look at the damn dummy diddy facilitating the battered woman going back to her abuser.
Nope. She’s not stupid at all. She is just going back to a guy that completely wailed on her ass.
She’s Einstein. And I’ve seen pictures of that guy. She could probably take him if she really wanted too.
I don’t know what the hell she’s thinking. For someone with her money and her resources to go back to an abusive bf just doesn’t make any sense. She doesn’t depend on him financially or otherwise, it’s not like she’s trapped in an abusive relationship with no way out. She must be either in denial or utterly confused. Or she thinks that the way he treats her is an acceptable way for a man to treat a woman, which means she is, indeed, really stupid.
I’m strarting to think that the whole thing was a publicity stunt. No one cared that much about them before. Now my grandmother knows who CB and Rihanna are. Chris will now seek counseling, apologize profusely and “learn from his mistakes and emerge a better person”. And Rihanna will be hailed as a “strong woman who stood by her man and found it in her heart to forgive him and give him a second chance”. And us, the unsuspecting duped suckers, will watch the “drama” unfold, cry ourselves to sleep every night and spend our hard earned money on their “music”…well, I’ll be safe from that, I don’t buy garbage.
They might even get married. lol…the Browns. Whitney and Bobby 2.0.
Rihanna had a lot to show for what she had been through. They always talk about the image they project to young people and now she is just showing them that it is okay to get bloodied and bruised and take back the guy because he said he was sorry. She had a great opportunity here. So many stars were hating him for what he did and now I wonder what they think of her. It never ceases to amaze me the crap that they do when they are in the public.
What chris did was a bad thing that ever happened. But, however; they are saying that Rihanna threw the first punch. Now i have done alot of research on the story. We don’t really know yet if Rihanna did throw the first punch. I have saw Chris live in court on HLN and he seemed really confident and was dressed up tight. Now I know how to solve these cases even though I’m only 15. Here in St.Louis I have recieved 3 awards for being the first teen to slove cases, help people with their problems, I even was called the Makeup/breakup girl because I always hooked people up and when they wanted to break up I would help them. All my friends come to me with their problems, and I’m there to listen. And that’s what I think Chris needs, someone there to actually listen. A lot of younger teens do have some very exciting points sometimes. Now I am still trying to figure out this case as much as the world is. But I’m doing real work,asking interveirwers do they have more answers. I will be in L.A soon to find out more information on this case. Thanks.
Nancy Drew is on it, y’all. WHEW. She’s borderline illiterate, but she’s on it.