March 20, 2015
Women as victims
Today in class we discussed Rhianna's bad girl image and what it had to do with her being abused. At first Rhianna wasn't really sure how to express herself or even if she should say anything about how Chris Brown abused. Thankfully she chose to finally speak out about it through her music which I thought was a clever way of doing it. With releasing the song Russian Roulette, it showed a bad side of her and gave her the nickname of being a bad girl.The media tried to pressure her into saying what happened and made her look like a victim for it. A lot of people said that it was her fault for provoking him or that she cheated on him so it was okay. Rhianna had said in an interview that the resin why she chose to leave him was because she knew she was a role model to young girls and didn't want to encourage them to stay in an abusive relationship. I think that it is crazy that women are seen at fault in relationships. When a women is abused the thoughts that come to some people's minds are: What did you do to him? Maybe you deserved it. He didn't mean to do it and it won't happen again. The mean are never seen as the issue when it's the men who are physically putting their hands on women. The same goes fro when a women either leaves or stays in an abusive relationship. If she decides to stay, people will say that she's stupid and obviously is doing something wrong. If she leaves, people think that she didn't try to make the relationship work and is weak for doing so. There is no winning with women and it's really sad. So for Rihanna to come out and talk about the way she was treated was a very brave thing to do and if expressing herself in a particular way in her music helps her to do that, then I think we should respect that.
I agree with your statement about how "if expressing herself in a particular way in her music helps her to do that, then I think we should respect that." because i feel like a lot of people don't see it that way. People love to judge so quickly and i think this ties in to when you stated how people judge if you decide to stay or go in the relationship. Things will just never be good enough for some people it's ridiculous.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you Laureen. Women are always blamed for everything whiles the men are excluded from the mess they created.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you said about either leaving or staying in a relationship. Women don't seem to have a choice and they are constantly deciding whether to stay or go. Also I liked the part about Rhianna being a role model. It was smart for her to leave due to the fact the she DOES have younger girls who look up to her. So I thought she did the right thing by leaving Chris.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, I'm really glad Rihanna broke up with Chris Brown because she knew she was a role model. By Rihanna breaking up with him shows other women that they can too if they are in an abusive relationship.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you said that if a woman that is being abused decides to leave the relationship well she is not being optimistic or what ever because maybe it wont happen again and she needs to try to fix things with her partner, but then if she decides to stay than she is weak and stupid because she did so it's like women will never win.
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