Comments on: Concern Rises Over Rihanna's Safety

Several Well-Known Women, Hearing She May Be Back With Chris Brown, Urge Her To Heed History

[rsmik]

Animals bite people, people don't bite people.

[rsmik]

She hit him like a girl and he couldn't take it like a man so he beat her like a dog.

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Posted by Kasiola2003 at 4:21 PM

I wholeheartedly agree with you. I have had a few say that she self-inflicted herself with the bruises...how ridiculuous. I agree men are stronger by nature then women. I say walk away or restrain the other person. I never heard nor saw any visible bruises on Chris Brown. I find it hard to believe that this was their first indecent. It was just to brutal and he seems oh so remorse (not). What a shame to? I actually still feel sorry for her and wish she had someone to really tell her the truth about domestic violence. Some of us has been there and have freed ourselves from the situation.

I understand that it would be hard for her to have a career here in the U.S. and have to run into this character in the music world, but look at a non-violent couple like Jen and Brad they barely barely run into each other. I hope she's okay. I'm praying for her each day as if she were my own daughter.

A concerned mom

[celebrityisatrick]

oh wait she's a Covergirl right... oops i made a "mistake". Maybe Covergirl will launch a line of hide your contusions makeup and Rihanna can be the spokesperson

[celebrityisatrick]

perhaps Revlon will launch a new line of makeup aimed at women who are victims of abuse. a whole line of stage makeup to hide your bruises.

[cbsantispin]

All games have their rules! It's best to read and know the rules of the game before you play it. In Kickboxing, kicking is permitted, so is using your elbows, in Pro Boxing kicking is not permitted and you are not allowed to use your elbows. The point is, there are rules! It's the same in the "thug lifestyle", cursing, profanity, bad manners, hitting and slapping is normal, permitted, expected, bragged about, sung about, worshiped and in some cases taking people out is permitted, it's a lifestyle choice people make. Rihanna chose the thug lifestyle, so when thug things happen to her, it's a part of that game, this is probably why Rihanna went back to Chris Brown. This incident only looks out of the ordinary to people who don't live the thug life. I'm not saying what Chris did to Rihanna was cool, but it's part of that world, that mentality, that game. Too bad this matter is not being heard in a thug court because Chris is guilty in a normal court.

[start99]

Everybody......lets not forget that females do this same exact thing and as long as you are human it happens no matter what color or sex. So please do not bash the men here. Women may have the statistic on this but its shared by both. Its just not as much as females. I know cause a female abused me but in other ways just as hurtful!

[Kasiola2003]

Hi everyone, I work in the criminal justice profession. There have been comments made here about Rihanna slapping Brown first, so she should be charged as well. A woman is physically weaker than a man. She stated that she'd been in altercations with Brown before. Pictures do speak a thousand words and Chris Brown does not appear to be injured in anyway,not only that he is out with on the water playing while on vacation? He was charged because in everyone's eye, he is not in the least bit sorry. Sometimes people get charged because of their attitude. RiRi could never inflict the kind of injury on Brown, that he inflicted on her. Some here have a "blame the victim" mentality. A slap is different than a full beating.

[Cas2dy]

troubleshooter... I am a living testimony, not something to be hidden from the light. My husband is a survivor as much as I am a survivor and to not tell our story is just as irresponsible as saying that victims should shut up. Look, you want all the gory details right? Something to get and stay mad about right? Not that I owe you in particular any explaination, but I chose to stay with a young man who had no mature control when I was sixteen and he was eighteen over staying with a father who had no sexual control. Easy choice sweetie, with nowhere else to go. Black has nothiong to do with it, but yes, i do happen to be Black. I did not act or react because I am Black, my actions came from my environment. I chose to change that environment by not accepting abuse...by getting early counseling that lasted for a very long time...by showing the two children we already had that I had the strength, the courage and the intellect to know the difference between loving someone enough to initiate an untimatum by taking care of myself for a change and not expecting him to do it. In other words, I empowered myself and in doing so, my husband knew he had no choice but to either go with my new flow or stay where he was in life. He took the high road. With me. Our two older children took the lesson from us that they never want to be as unhappy as we were nor do they wish to expose their families to that and they don't. Our younger children have no idea that we were not always PTA, soccer, Neighborhood Block Association parents and leaders who actually win awards of recognition for what we do in our community and with our children.

[Cas2dy]

troubleshooter...you really are shooting for trouble. I am a living testimony, not something to be hidden from the light. My husband is a survivor as much as I am a survivor and to not tell our story is just as irresponsible as saying that victims should shut up. Look, you want all the gory details right? Something to get and stay mad about right? Not that I owe you in particular any explaination, but I chose to stay with a young man who had no mature control when I was sixteen and he was eighteen over staying with a father who had no sexual control. Easy choice sweetie, with nowhere else to go. Black has nothiong to do with it, but yes, i do happen to be Black. I did not act or react because I am Black, my actions came from my environment. I chose to change that environment by not accepting abuse...by getting early counseling that lasted for a very long time...by showing the two children we already had that I had the strength, the courage and the intellect to know the difference between loving someone enough to initiate an untimatum by taking care of myself for a change and not expecting him to do it. In other words, I empowered myself and in doing so, my husband knew he had no choice but to either go with my new flow or stay where he was in life. He took the high road. With me. Our two older children took the lesson from us that they never want to be as unhappy as we were nor do they wish to expose their families to that and they don't. Our younger children have no idea that we were not always PTA, soccer, Neighborhood Block Association parents and leaders who actually win awards of recognition for what we do in our community and with our children. We are both near retirement age now, with four grandchildren who are lovely and amazing. Our oldest daughter works with special needs children and recently she was able to come to me with a problem relating to the sexual abuse of one of her students by her own father. I am happy to say that the child was placed in a foster home with a loving family and sh also has supervised visits with her younger siblings. My daughter knew what I'd endured and she knows that her father is a man of great vaue today. She took what she got from the part of our history that she witnessed and made a career for herself that allows her to help others out of it before it becomes deeper than it is. Iwasn't fortunate enough to have anyone like her in my life and so i ahd to wing it, but at least i know that my experiences have put a woman on this earth who uses what she learned from us to make adifference in the lives of others. Nothing can make me forget her tears as she told me of what her student was enduring, nor will i ever forget that she was as adamant as anyone can ever be when seeing to it that the man was removed from the home, jailed and now faces deportation upon his release. My experiences and how I dealt with them

[DefendLiberty]

Where are the pictures of the injuries she inflicted on him?
Posted by leeanna59 at 3:31 PM : Mar 11, 2009
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So charge her with a lesser assault charge, and charge him with aggravated assault. If you go out and initiate a fight by hitting someone, then they kick your butt, you BOTH get charged. No one has the right to initiate a fight by assault simply because they are jealous of a text message. Period.

[DefendLiberty]

So she slapped and hit him FIRST? Does she get charged too? Or is assault OK if you are female? Let's be clear- Chris Brown was dead wrong to hit her and should be prosecuted, but why is only he being charged?

[cs4466]

Concern Rises Over Rihanna's Safety

Rihanna who? Concern? I couldn't possibly care less. Just another example of scum hurting scum and the scum that can't leave the abusive scum they're emotionally attached to. I certainly don't need pictures of it.

[Cas2dy]

Posted by Cas2dy: That sounds like justification for the abuse. "Its okay he hurt me cause it all worked out in the end". I think thats a **** poor message to send to people.
Posted by xxunknown at 1:17 PM

Regardless of what YOU take from the message, WE have WORKED at OUR relationship and very proud that WE put back together the broken pieces. I know every case is not the same, which is why I say that while these two may be young, they are both adults and they need to figure out a way to work it out or let it go. No one else can force their beliefs on them because everyone is different. Neither my husband myself are proud of our bad times, but we got counseling, we sought help, we did what we had to do. My children are not "justification". They are very real people who both my husband and I had the good sense to realize deserved the very best from us and we then became the best. Look, every scenario is not the a worst case. I know that my relationship is not the only one on earth that started out messed up and wound up a blessing. Many people have never really understood what a relationship was truly about until they neraly lost it. Chris Brown is not OJ Simpson or Mike Tyson. He is a young fool. People need to stop with the big old scary Black man syndrome, cuz right about now, that's all he's been compared to. Tyson, Simpson, Ike...they were all old enough to know better, and yet no one made it a point to threaten their careers until they'd done such reprehensible things as to never expect forgiveness. Brown, he has a chance to pull it together right now without all the hate. He's got to prove he's a good guy and that he won't be brutish with a woman again. I am pulling for him and for Rihanna, whether they stay together or go their seperate ways. What he did has earned him a lifelong lesson.

[122049]

Oh please, chris Brown Gaye, you're probably gayer than he is!

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cindymacbeth

I agree with your statement on the Chris Brown being Gaye !

[cindymacbeth]

Anyone to take up for a guy that hits women is GAY he just hasn't come out of the closet yet!!! HE HAS PARENTS THAT WANT HIM MARRIED OFF SO THAT WAY HE CAN DIVORSE RIHANNA AND SAVE FACE TO HIS FAMILY!!!

Chris shouldn't even go around telling women he loves them he has a hold on Rihanna
GAYS THAT HAVE NOT COME OUT OF THE CLOSET THAT USE WOMEN TO COVER UP THEIR HOMOSEXUALITY ALWAYS USE GOD AS THE EXCUSE !!!
These TYPE know how to beat up on women , but they never go against a real straight man!!! THE MEDIA IS DRAWING IGNORANT ***** SAYING ITS OK FOR MEN TO BEAT WOMEN OMG OMG OMG!!!!! THIS IS SICK!!!! RIHANNA THAT ***** IS NOT STICKING UP FOR WOMEN IF SHE STAYS WITH THAT DICK HEAD!!!!

[cindymacbeth]

For Rihanna to go back into abuse with that guy and him to use God as a false alternative is to trick Rihanna to go back to him. He will kill her that is the next thing?.

And for anyone to take up for a guy that hits women is a gay ass ******.
They know how to beat up on women , but they never go against a man.

[kimmike63]

Like Mama used to say: when you've had enough you'll know!!!!
It is really sad that these things go on all the time, and when woman back down on behalf of the man that just beat the hell off them (I used to be one of them), it just makes us women look bad. It is time that SOMEONE stood up for all woman that can't; because when you get in a abusive realtionship: it is hard to get out of!!! And guess what? When a man cries and begs and pleds that he will change: HE DOES NOT!!!! This man is just looking for the easy way out and he hasn't learned a thing. Usally the woman is the that learns and carries on. But the man he will always be abusive with every woman he has a relationship with. I do hope that all the women that are being abused take heed to this if it is just to STOP and look how each and everyone of you are living your lives. It s a lie, it is unhealthy, and no matter what your man is putting in your head, you are worth something and you CAN get someone else that will love you and appreciate what you are as a whole!!!! It is time that we as woman take a stand and stop the abuse!!!!!!!! I am not a real big Oprah fan but: Oprah I take my hat off to you for taking a stand for all battered woman out their.

[888irish]

It took me a bit to notice the small details, but in the TMZ photo this woman picture does not appear to have pierced ears, if you look at the photo essay on Rihanna her ears are definitely pierced.

Posted by dragyn30 at 1:05 PM : Mar 11, 2009

If you look halfway up her ear, it looks like she might have a tiny ring.

I know people that don't have pierced ears and the types of earrings that they wear, you can't tell that they aren't.