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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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