What’s going on?
There’s talk of Rihanna taking Chris Brown back. If it’s true, what a damn shame. People are saying she’s setting a terrible example to women and men. Women, because she’s showing you should put up with abuse. Men, because she’s showing that men can get away with abusing.If she does return to him, it will just show to me that despite her celebrity, she is a regular woman who can fall victim to an abusing man. Whatever it is in women that make them stay with their abusers, Rihanna is not exempt from it. So Brown is taking anger management classes - whatever, it’s so obvious that it’s because it will help his case in court. Not that they won’t possibly do him good, and that he doesn’t need them. But it’s Rihanna, in my opinion, who needs counselling because of this.
I’m glad anger management classes are an option for abusive men. I do believe that some half-heartedly take these classes though, especially if they’re forced to through the courts. An ex started to show behaviour that’s best described as acting out. He slammed a door in a foolish fit because he disagreed with me about something. When he apologized for it and addressed his actions, he said he needed to take an anger management class. Turns out he was sabotaging the relationship, which ended after that.
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“Reality” tv has become unreal to me. I wonder, are the people on these shows really acting like themselves? I doubt it. I believe they are being scripted by producers to behave in overblown dramatic ways. It’s all about what makes for “good tv”. Take Rock of Love for example, which is nothing but voyeurism. This trailer trash form of entertainment is simple degradation of females. That former Poison heartthrob has a comeback to his career all right, & it’s not music. He found how he could be in the spotlight again. Put a bunch of attention seeking whores on some busses filled with booze & make ‘em fight for him. It’s shameless.
Has tv gone too far trying to shock us? It wasn’t bad enough that the latest Bachelor proposed marriage but then changed his mind - no, he had to change his mind on tv. Mortifying the woman he chose. It’s apparently not good enough tv anymore for these bachelors to realize they don’t want to be with their chosen one. You gotta go one step further and bring on the humiliation, or it won’t be memorable.
