YouTube: Rihanna breaks her silence about Chris Brown beating on 20/20

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Dianne Sawyer: "At one point your mouth was completely filled with blood?"

Rihanna: "Yes."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBngs0GASns

[HipChick]

1. why does she come out now? now that she needs to sell an album...

not very credible....she has a history of being violent herself that she is not talking about..

Not to mention all the S&M,naked, and breast hanging out clothes she likes to wear..

a mediocre artist seeking to promote her album, is what this smells like

[Texasgal]

2. Did you see the

pictures of her battered face? How much more credible to you need to be?

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[geek tragedy]

10. Then you understand nothing about the psychological trauma

that battered women undergo. Going back to the abuser is a very common practice. Tragically self-defeating, but also common.

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[HipChick]

5. I've worked in domestic shelters for battered women

trust me..I've seen a real battered woman, without resources that has no choice BUT to go back - not someone who goes back to their accuser, and then wants to play victim when she has an album to sell...she needs to discuss her own role in the situation too...a lot of other people in the know,and industry are talking about it..

[geek tragedy]

8. if you really worked in a DV shelter, you would not be surprised

by a woman going back to her batterer. It happens a shockingly high percentage of the time.

I frankly don't believe anything you say about your background.

[HipChick]

13. like I'm going to lose sleep...snooze...

but I guess you've never been anywhere near a DV center...she could have done a lot for DV,she choose not to..

[geek tragedy]

18. No, I have a much better idea than a poseur like yourself

who has likely never met a battered woman.

[HipChick]

27. She must be putting $$ in your pocket..

[geek tragedy]

29. Wow, you really hate her.

Are you Chris Brown's new girlfriend by any chance? Or maybe Chris Brown himsself?

[HipChick]

36. so because people disagree with you..

you automatically have to attack ..
I'm just amazed people wrap themselves so blindly in something like this..

[geek tragedy]

39. When you come in here pushing anti-woman talking points,

you get some appropriate feedback.

[HipChick]

49. so as long as it agrees with your viewpoint..

people don't even have their own lives together,but are all wrapped up in someone else

[geek tragedy]

52. Whatever dude. nt

[noiretextatique]

68. a prediction

this one won't last long.

[Texasgal]

60. My life is togther

than you very much.

I find someone that does what you are doing pretty fucking pathetic.

[Texasgal]

42. No... it wasn't a disagreement

it was your failure to be TRUTHFUL on this thread about working with DV women.

I am not sure what you are here for, but honey...you're ruse is up. You've been caught. We don't BELIEVE YOU. Get it toots?

[Texasgal]

25. Do you have some sort of inside info

that the rest of us louses don't?

How do you know she she isn't doing anything for Domestic Violence?

[geek tragedy]

32. Same place 'she' got her information that women

who wear skimpy clothes aren't real victims and that it's unheard of for DV victims to return to their batterers.

[Texasgal]

Yeah... looks like Hip'chic's ruse is up.

They just can't stay away can they? Must be the new furniture DU put in! :rofl:

[Shell Beau]

59. Isn't she trying to help now?

What if her story helps one person?

[Texasgal]

19. Yup.

We just said almost the same thing.

[Texasgal]

17. Ummm...if you have worked with

battered Women, then you should know that MANY,MANY Women go back to their abusers..... you do know this...Right?

[geek tragedy]

20. I'm calling misogynist troll whose correct name should be

HipDude.

[rucky]

34. I'm sure there was a publicist involved with that decision.

I wouldn't put that on her. You don't know when it was recorded or what arrangements were made between the producers and the publicists.

[Odin2005]

38. You are a liar. noone who's worked with abused women would say such ignorant horseshit!

[saracat]

76. Umm, you seem to be saying she deserved to be beaten. That is not cool at all.

Are you somehow angry or jealous of Rhianna? Your reaction is a bit weird, the talk of her "role" and industry insiders. It doesn't matter what she did or what industry folks gossip about, nothing she has done could ever justify the battering she took. Nothing.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

12. I read a quote from her yesterday that was something like...

"...I woke up and found out that I'd become Britney Spears."

So the beating itself caused physical damage, but the aftermath (including her "under the media radar" hook-ups after the beating) have caused extreme damage to her career as well.

I thought it was sad that she has apologized for "taking him back," because I don;t know of anyone who stepped up and thought that was a GOOD idea, but it was her life.

Frank Zappa once said "Shut up & play yer guitar"...

...maybe Rihanna needs to shut up and promote her new album. I don't know. She deserves healing, but I doubt she'll find it under the media spotlight.

[saracat]

22. Rhianna is unquestioningly a victim. It chills me to the bone that anyone

would align the clothes she wears as justification for her battering. NO woman deserves this. This is the same as justifying rape. This is violence against women. And is wrong.She is a victim.

[geek tragedy]

23. Omigod, are we agreeing? nt

[saracat]

26. Yes we are.

[Odin2005]

45. Misogyny is perfectly OK on DU, as usual.

[saracat]

70. Yep. Goes along with all the anti choice BS in other threads,Unbelievable.

[Number23]

77. I'm shocked (SHOCKED!!) to be agreeing with you on ANYTHING.

But on this we agree.

She is a victim.

Say it again for those who refuse to understand and get this through their idiotic little heads.

She is a victim.

[EOTE]

51. Are you for real?

I don't believe for a second you're actually a chick. Are you actually saying that she's not credible because of the clothes she wears? She was beaten to a bloody pulp for christ's sakes and you're gonna pull this shit. Whatever you're peddling, it smells to high heaven.

[Shell Beau]

57. Who cares about what hangs out of her clothes? What does

that have to do with domestic violence?

And what if this story helps people?

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

65. Rihanna has a violent past? I didn't know this. Linky please.

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

82. Link? kick.

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[HipChick]

7. Me either..people need to interview her other ex-boyfriends..

[Odin2005]

48. Oh look, another ignorant misogynistic twit.

:puke:

[Shell Beau]

62. Then you have no empathy for most people who are abused by

their SO. Most do go back. What bullshit.

[geek tragedy]

6. A lot of victim blaming going on in this thread.

Misogyny is strong, and both men and women espouse it.

[HipChick]

9. No blaming...both are idiots...both need to come clean

not just when you need to sell an album

[geek tragedy]

14. Sure thing, Hip 'Chick' nt

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[geek tragedy]

15. She's going back to what she does for a living, which

must mean she deserved to get the crap beaten out of her.

DU draws some real psychopaths.

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[HipChick]

24. so if people don't agree with your point of view, you have to go to name-calling?

people like to bash when they can't debate

[geek tragedy]

28. You cite her clothing as proof she's not a real DV victim, then spout

complete ignorance while lying about having worked in DV shelters, which anyone who had any exposure to DV victims would recognize as crap.

You're not exactly clever about the game you're playing.

[HipChick]

30. Why does stating my opinions equate to a game?

[geek tragedy]

33. When you misrepresent your background in order

to validate your misogyny, that's a game.

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[geek tragedy]

50. If someone claimed to have worked with dogs and then acted

surprised that they barked, they would be a liar.

[HipChick]

58. If someone said they worked with dogs, and then said they liked Mike Vick

they would get called a liar..

[Texasgal]

54. Ummm...

She has misrepresented herself as someone who has worked in a battered womens shelter.

[Odin2005]

31. I work with abused women where I volunteer at and the posts in this thread are PATHETIC!!!

You misogynistic jerks should be ashamed of yourselves.

[geek tragedy]

35. One of them is claiming to have worked in domestic violence shelters..

But then feigns shock that a battered woman would go back.

Which makes that person, well, a liar.

[HipChick]

40. If you actually read my post, instead of projecting your own ideas

I said most of the women I have dealt with, DO NOT have the resources, and they have no choice to go back...DUH!

[Texasgal]

43. Resources are not the only reason

why Women go back!

Hello!

[geek tragedy]

47. Anyone who had worked with them would know that there

are many reasons they go back.

[freeplessinseattle]

80. You are as transparent as Scotch tape, shame on you n/t

[Odin2005]

41. Yep, definitely a liar.

Her ignorance indicates she has never worked with abused women.

[HipChick]

44. Is this Freeper site or DU?

I was not aware people were not allowed to have a different viewpoint

[Odin2005]

55. Lying about working at a women's shelter is fucking pathetic.

[HipChick]

61. accusing me of lying and attacking is pretty pathetic since no-one

bothered to really read what I said..

[Texasgal]

63. No... I read it alright.

So, hip' chic...pray tell, what shelter did you work at? What type of work did you do?

[Odin2005]

64. What you said was factually incorrect.

Lack of resources is not the only reason abuse women go back to their abusers. Which just goes to show how ignorant you are, which proves you never worked at a women's shelter.

[Dorian Gray]

81. They are allowed to have different viewpoints

but when those viewpoints are ignorant, they will be called out about that.

I've never worked with abused women, but I've dealt with a friend in an abusive relationship. She had resources, yet she stayed for way too long. It's not abnormal, and any human being who used their mind for something other than being a total judgmental twat would realize that women stay in abusive relationships for many reasons.

[Texasgal]

46. weirdest trolls lately

huh?

Masquerading as a Woman who worked with Battered Women to boot! They are certainly getting *cough* colorful?

[HipChick]

53. yep...post a different pov and you get called a troll,liar and all kinds of stuff..

[Texasgal]

56. This was not a different POV

You have obviously never worked with battered women before, if you had you would have never posted such an insane load of crap!

[Shell Beau]

66. You commented on how she dresses. What in the hell does that

have to do with any damn thing?

[Texasgal]

71. This person is obvioulsy deluded

and knows nothing about Domestic Violence.

[noiretextatique]

73. you spouted some ignorant, misogynistic bs

take you POV to FR if you want to be accepted.

[HipChick]

67. **This must be a Rihanna Stan only thread**

If only democrats could get as riled up about voting, as they can about people they don't even know...
If only everyone was outraged enough to go volunteer some time at a battered women's home, DV center too..

[Shell Beau]

69. Yeah because domestic violence doesn't matter.

[Texasgal]

72. yeah... shove us wimmins

to the back of the bus and make me DINNER!

LOL!

[Shell Beau]

74. Pretty gross and sad, huh?

[Texasgal]

75. Not to mention WEIRD!

Geez!

[saracat]

78. If only Democrats could get as riled up about women's rights and against violence against women

women might get more respect and victims like Rhianna wouldn't be victimized with the approval of those who claim to be liberals.

[timeforpeace]

79. About damn time.

Say, who is Rhiannon anyway?

[mia]

83. Battered women don't recognize that they may raise their

children to become "Chris Browns". This week I was repeatedly hit and kicked by very young child who comes from such a background. I was standing in front of him to keep him from hurting other children in the class. He knowns no better way to get what he wants. My bruises will go away, but I fear for what this little guy will grow up to be. Violence is normal for him.